Weddings, Tin year anniversaries & 100 mile charity challenges!

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Not long in the door from a trip to Leeds for a family wedding this weekend. It was an Indian wedding of one of Raashi’s cousins and it certainly lived up to the hype: great fun, incredible food, some very questionable dance moves on my part – and yes – a free bar. No complaints from me!

Speaking of weddings, Raashi and I are coming up on a big milestone of our own – tin years married (10 is apparently the ‘tin’ wedding)! It genuinely doesn’t feel that long since I rocked up to our reception on horseback (a three-day celebration, no less). There’s neiigh chance I’ll ever forget the date either as it’s engraved on the inside of my ring, just incase. It’s also tin years since we’ve taken over TWDC, that was a busy time for us back then!

When I googled the 10 year wedding anniversary it suggested a gift of a set of designer storage containers (who needs that?) but apparently “the modern version is a diamond” – of course 🙄. I’ll happily settle for 10 tins of beer.

I’ll have to save them for after our works next charity event though, which is just around the corner. On June the 14th a few of us are taking on a 100 mile cycle to raise funds for Medical Aid for Palestinians – a charity that provides medical aid in Gaza and the West Bank. Like everyone else, we’ve been horrified by the situation there and want to do all we can to help. Our cycle is from Glasgow to Edinburgh and back (104 miles exactly) . If you can, please help us by donating here:

https://www.justgiving.com/page/tiwari-watson-dental-care-2?newPage=true

We think it might take us 9-10 hours so the tins will definitely come in handy after that. If you see our staff walking around the practice like John Wayne for a while you’ll know we’ve put a good shift in.

Just before the wedding I was also fortunate enough to visit Bensheim in Germany a couple of weeks ago thanks to an invite from Dentsply Sirona. Our practice is practically a Dentsply Sirona showroom already, so they kindly asked me to visit their European HQ – and it was massive! They’re a big worldwide dental company that basically make everything related to dentistry,: chairs, scanners, all the latest gadgets etc.

There were so many freebies on offer and disappointingly all I managed to blag was a high vis vest. Might come in handy for directing the parking at the practice at least. I’m sure our patients have noticed it gets a bit tight in there, thankfully our friends at Farmfoods next door have kindly lent us some of their spaces too.

Some of the kit we have from Dentsply is in our lab room where we can now mill our own crowns in house, ill leave you with this glowing review from one of our lovely patients Tracey after experiencing it first hand:

Game changer for us and our patients!

Take care all and thanks for reading,

Joe

Joseph Watson BDS MFDS RCPS MSc (Implantology)

http://www.tiwariwatsondentalcare.co.uk

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Weekend Adventures & What’s New at the Practice

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It’s been a nice, relaxing weekend… for Raashi, anyway — she’s been soaking it up at a spa in Ireland while I’ve been solo parenting three little rockets. The weather hasn’t exactly been on our side, so we’ve ended up watching a fair bit of TV and somehow found ourselves tumbling down a YouTube rabbit hole.

It started with Britain’s Got Talent, moved swiftly onto the US version, then backstage clips, and before I knew it, it was 11pm on a wild Saturday night — the kids and I were knee-deep in mini eggs, watching Simon Cowell’s Top 10 Golden Buzzers of All Time. I’m not saying I got emotional at the golden buzzer moments, but let’s just say I had to tell the kids my hayfever was playing up. How my Saturday nights have changed btw.

I did try to get us out of the house today. The plan was to go swimming, but there was an ‘incident’ at the Allander pool meaning the pool was sh*t — and I’ll let you guess which vowel is missing from that word. So we headed to the Leisuredrome, only to find the roads closed and the leisure centre out of action thanks to a triathlon. Fair play to anyone competing in that – I was tired just driving around for 90 minutes before heading home for.. …. more TV.

I had grand plans to tidy the whole house so that Raashi would think I was an absolute legend of a husband when she gets back later, but she’s just going to have to accept that she married a perfectly bang average bloke (which I’m sure she’s fully aware of already.) We’ve only recently moved back home after some renovation work, and there are boxes everywhere – it’s definitely a two-man job so best waiting for Raashi anyway. And by “two-man job” I mean “one man, one woman”, …I bet that phrase is probably cancelled these days.

At work, we’ve also just moved back into our reception area after a major revamp — and I have to say, it’s looking great. There’s still a bit of snagging to sort, but the new layout is a big upgrade & we’re really proud of it. For our patients the entrance is back around the rear again, with lovely new seating and a complimentary coffee station while you wait. The new surgeries and lab are looking sharp too, and we’ve got some genuinely exciting new tech that’s going to be a real game-changer for us and our patients.

Completely wireless scanning now – in seconds!

We’ll be hosting an open day soon so everyone can come along and check it all out. There’ll be fun activities for the kids, a few freebies on offer, and complimentary consultations for new patients. We’re really looking forward to welcoming you into the new premises. It’ll probably be some time in June so hopefully we get a nice day for it. For one of the nice days we had recently I saw a guy walking around near Bishopbriggs cross not just with his tap aff, but his shoes and socks too. Genuinely couldn’t believe it. Proper just walking around in his bare feet.

You’ll be glad to know we’ll all have our shoes and socks on for your complimentary consultations – look forward to seeing you soon!

Take care all and thanks for reading…


Joe

Joseph Watson BDS MFDS RCPS (Glas) MSc (Implantology)

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New Year, New Challenges: Cycling, Golf, and More

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In my last blog I wrote that I had asked Santa for Manchester United to be less of a shambles. Turns out even Santa has his limits 🤦🏻‍♂️. I’ve come to the conclusion that we just need Fergie back, how old is he anyway?! I was at the game on Thursday night against Rangers, so it was nice to at least win that one. I must say the Rangers fans were loud – fair play; but they were blown away by Bruno Fernandes & storm Eowyn in the end!

Apologies that we had to close on Friday this week as a result of the storm – hopefully everyone managed to keep safe and dry, with little to no damage to their property/belongings. We did what we could to reschedule appointments and added an extra clinic yesterday to see emergencies. It also allowed us to get the slap through to our new extension carried out without too much disruption for patients. Things appear to be progressing nicely on that front, full steam ahead to opening our new surgeries around the start of March!

Speaking of steaming ahead, we’ve nailed down our team charity fundraising challenge for this year: a 100-mile cycle from Glasgow > Edinburgh & back in the mid-June. There will be a prize for the winner and a forfeit for whoever comes last, so I’m getting the training in now & looking forward to my transition to becoming a fully-fledged MAMIL (middle-aged man in lycra)… it’s my time. 🚴‍♂️

I celebrated turning 37 last week and my birthday consisted of a Saturday morning shift at work, attending a march in support of peace in Gaza, and finished off with a round of mini golf with the kids. 37 really is all it’s cracked up to be. Mini golf on paper should have been one of those wholesome fun family activities, but in reality I spent my time constantly stopping the kids from kicking each other’s golf balls, running onto other peoples holes, & hitting each other in the face with their clubs. There was lots of shouting “no, stop, don’t, Jesus Christ & FORE” involved and although we’d planned for 36 holes we called it a day after 18 for everyone’s safety & sanity! I didn’t let them win either. It was my birthday and if they’re going to behave like children they have no chance against the champ. 😏

I guess that’s why they call it ‘crazy golf’

I’m hoping to take the winning streak to Hyrox which I’ll be doing along with a few members of our team in March. It’s an exercise challenge course which does look pretty tough to be fair. The more modest but also more realistic ‘win’ of finishing the challenge, and not finishing last will do for that one.

With January coming to an end I hope everyone is still sticking to your New Years resolutions, I’ve managed to stick to one. I’m reading more! Finished “The Glucose Revolution” and now occasionally eat less sweets. Baby steps. As for the other resolution—reverting to an old Nokia 3210 to cut down on my screen time—I’ve got the phone, just not the SIM card in it yet. One of these days, I’ll either be more present in real life or an absolute legend at Snake.

Finally, if you’ve made a resolution to sort out your smile this year, we’ve got you covered. Our new surgeries will be up and running soon, and some of our dentists will be back from maternity leave before you know it. So if your teeth are still on your to-do list, we’ll be ready when you are!

Take care all and thanks for reading,

Joe

Joseph Watson BDS MFDS RCPS MSc (Implantology)

http://www.tiwariwatsondentalcare.co.uk

Building Dreams & Bad Karaoke, December at the Practice…

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Had a lovely visit to see Santa with the kids today, well not the real Santa of course, but one of his trusted employees. My 4-year-old son Ronan, refused to tell him what he wanted for Christmas. Naturally, I stepped in to help & say that what he really wanted more than anything, was for Manchester United not to be so sh**e. Fingers crossed Santa can deliver something on that one, for Ronan’s sake.

Our daughters, thankfully, are asking for pink skateboards, which should be easier for Santa to sort out than last years flat-pack nightmare. I’m actually hoping to finally catch a glimpse of the real Santa this year, the last few years there’s been sightings of him in our garden but I’ve been out at Asda every time. Terrible luck & timing, really.

Hopefully, on the practice front, we have more luck with our timing for the new building works to be finished – I think I might be giving the builder a few sleepless nights about that. It’s looking great so far though and all going well, 1st March should be our grand re-opening. 🤞🏼The upgrade includes 2 new surgeries, an in-house lab (meaning less turnaround time for dentures & crowns), a spacious waiting area, a shiny new reception & a swanky office for our treatment co-ordinator/assistant manager, Bili. Oh.. and 5 new car parking spaces courtesy of our friends at Farmfoods who are kindly letting our staff park there! To be fair, I’ve probably bought enough chicken nuggets for my lunches in there this year to earn the favour. Can’t wait to share our extension with all our patients when it’s done. 😊

Sneak peak of our new waiting area 👆🏼

We’ve got our staff xmas night out coming up next weekend too, a bit of karaoke to look forward to amongst other shenanigans. I might have the worst voice on the planet, and Raashi comes in at a very close second worst, so it should be a laugh, at our expense at least.

After that, Christmas will be upon is before we know it – is it just me or where does the time go?! I’ve been meaning to write a blog once a month but there’s always something on at the weekends and I can’t seem to find the time. The world also seems to be going absolutely mad at the minute and I find myself stressing at the news in my spare time as I’m sure some of you do too. I do think it’s important we talk about it though, we all know what’s going on in Gaza is not right and needs to end – I hope our politicians can finally do something meaningful to make it so.

After our xmas night out I’m planning on remaining completely horizontal as much as I possibly can next Sunday. So, let me take this opportunity to wish all our patients a Merry Christmas & a fantastic time with your friends and families. I can’t wait to welcome you to our new-look practice in 2025.

Maybe Raashi and I will bash out the karaoke in the waiting room for the grand re-opening ceremony🤗.

Take care all,

Joe

Joseph Watson BDS MFDS RCPS MSc (Implantology)

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Exciting Developments at TWDC: Practice Expansion and UK Dentistry Awards | Tiwari Watson Dental Blog

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Sunday 8th Sept 2024

I think we can all agree it’s been a hoaching summer in Glasgow this year. Yesterday was the first day of sunshine that I remember for about 3 months and sadly I spent it in Wren kitchens 🤦🏻‍♂️. I couldn’t wait to get out so our new kitchen might give off a “that’ll do” kind of vibe when it arrives. It should blend in with our cuisine at least as we’ve invested in an air fryer and seem to have had an insane amount of chicken nuggets in the diet lately. We also have one at work and when I forget my lunch the emergency nugs are always ready to step up to the plate. In summary, I could really do with a healthier diet and climate please.

My last blog post was about our charity fundraiser for Cancer Research UK, which we completed back in May, during that other day this ‘summer’ when the sun actually came out, remember? Thanks to the generosity of our patients, family & friends we managed to raise £2851.04.

11 hours, 60,000 steps each, great effort by the team💪🏼

Raashi and I are making another trek this weekend as we head off to Leicester for the UK Dentistry Awards. TWDC is up for Best Practice Scotland and Best Team Scotland. Fingers crossed we come back with more silverware for the trophy cabinet 🤞🏼

Not that we’re banking on the win and the need for more space for trophies, but co-incidentally we are also starting work to extend our practice this month:

It’ll be worth it in the end as we’ll bring our new patient waiting lists to ZERO once it’s finished but we’ll have some teething issues of our own in the next few months.

To all our lovely patients, please bear with us as we get the work done. We’re aiming to stay open the whole time but we’ll have to close at lunch times and ask some patients to wait in their cars until their appointment time. There will also be some noise in the background but if its quite loud, at least rest assured this won’t be coming from our drills!

Thank you in advance to our patients for your patience! We can’t wait to give you a spacious and comfortable waiting room and two more state of the art air-conditioned surgeries, as well as minimal wait times for appointments come March.

Will keep you all updated as the works go on,

Take care and thanks for reading,

Joe

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It’s a marathon not a sprint…

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It’s been a long time since I’ve written a blog post. I used to do one per week but our Sundays seem to be taken up by different kids birthday parties every weekend now. It’s a great time to focus on sweeping up left over chicken nuggets but it doesn’t leave a lot of free time for writing blogs. Our kids are nearly all independent now though, at the ripe old ages of 4, 5, & 7. Ronan (the youngest) doesn’t wipe his own bum yet but that’s probably his final hurdle into full independence/adulthood. Knowing how lazy he is though I’m pretty sure he’ll try and drag that one into his teens, at which point Raashi and I might have some more free time on Sundays.

There are no parties planned today & Ronan hasn’t eaten much hence the free time to write a blog. Among other things, I wanted to share our upcoming team charity event for Cancer research UK. It’s a marathon trek (including a 2,500ft climb) through the trossarchs on the 18th May. Most of our team are taking part and we’re aiming to beat last years total of £2000+ for charity. I think it’s going to take us about 9 hours and be in the region of 80,000 steps each, more for the shorter people we have on the team (unfortunately that’s pretty much all of us).

Thankfully, we’ve secured the signature of a new full time dentist called Connor who is 6ft 4, he starts in July to replace our maternity leavers (Laura & Lydia). Unfortunately he can’t do the trek this time but I’m fairly sure he could do it without his Fitbit even vibrating! I was excited to get another male on the team as Kamal and I are slightly outnumbered since Mr Chan retired. He also can’t get pregnant (I think? – you never know these days). I’m not even sure you can say that, but sure it’s done now.

It was a busy transfer window for TWDC actually as we also signed another dentist called Kate who starts at the same time. She’s actually our first female Scottish dentist in the squad. They both seem lovely and I’m excited for our patients to meet them.

Any donations from our patients, families and friends would be very much appreciated! : TIA

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In other news I’m excited to announce that we have plans to extend our practice soon (building works starting in August). We’ve been at maximum capacity for a long time and I’m glad that we’ll finally be able to bring our NHS waiting list to zero from early next year. Our extension will include an extra 2 new surgeries, a larger waiting area, and if my dreams come true (i.e. the bank lend us loads of money) a new digital lab room so that we can print our own crowns/bridges/retainers/whitening trays etc. That would be a massive game changer for our patients who are used to waiting for at least 1 week for new crowns etc and would (going forward) have the option to get these on the same day!

Starting in August and not finishing until March next year (as we are doing it without closing), it will also be a bit of a marathon in itself. Watch this space for updates and if you know of friends or family who aren’t yet registered with a dentist, please let them know that our NHS waiting lists will be at zero in the near future!

Enjoy the rest of your Sunday & thanks for reading,

Joe

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Team Watson wins big!

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I haven’t been writing blogs as I’ve been avoiding the internet for a while since Man City apparently won a few trophies. It’s paid off as I’ve seen very little about it, so as far as I’m concerned, nothing actually happened. The last I heard they were cheating loads then the season just ended, nobody actually won 🤷🏻‍♂️. It was basically a big giant draw and we’re starting again soon. My younger brother Nathan, on the other hand, did have a big win – as of last week he’s the new Australasian Middleweight boxing champion, the first ever Irishman to hold this title:

Congratulations Champ – very proud!

I wish I had some of his talent in the ring but as the old saying goes – I couldn’t box eggs. Serendipitously though we have created an ideal family business with a professional boxer and a dentist. Onwards and upwards for Team Watson 💪🏼 😷.

At work we had our own physical challenge last month – we completed the Tough Mudder obstacle course, raising over £2000 for our chosen charities (Scottish Autism & Alzheimer’s Scotland). When I say ‘we’ I mean everyone else. Sadly I couldn’t compete as I was still recovering from knee surgery. I managed to make it to the FA Cup final that day instead but I left before they presented the ‘Draw’ trophy to both teams 😕. Well done to the rest of Team TWDC for their efforts and thanks to all our patients, family and friends for helping us raise money for the 2 amazing charities!

Very proud of the team – great effort! (special thanks to the ringers we pulled in too 👍🏼)

We’ve got a more relaxing work event this month with an overnight visit to Crieff Hydro Hotel & Spa planned as a treat for the whole team. Glad to say my knee is back to full strength for that ☺️. It’s a reward for all the hard work & dedication our staff have given us over the past year, we’ve been incredibly busy in that time and the support they have given is invaluable, safe to say we’re all looking forward to a well deserved nice day/night away!

After Crieff it’s back to the day job and hopefully another busy second half of the year. We’ve got some lovely patient success stories to share soon and some big structural changes ahead for TWDC in the not too distant future. Watch this space 👀.

Thanks for reading & take care,

Joe

Joseph Watson BDS MFDS RCPS MSc (Implantology)

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Weak at the knee’s

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I used to write these blogs a bit more often but now that the kids can use a spoon themselves I’ve been topping up on some much needed beauty sleep on a Sunday morning instead. There’s still a bit of a hibernation required on that front but it’s nice to get a wee extra hour on a Sunday, our oldest is 6 so she’s practically an adult now and can look after the other two anyway.

Poor Raashi has been running about after me too for a while though after I managed to rupture the tendons in my knee playing football. I did the exact same thing a year ago (playing football again) and thought I was back to full fitness but in my first game back I lasted 20 minutes until the other one went. To make it worse Raashi actually predicted it and even said on my way out the door, “I don’t have a good feeling about this, why don’t you just go out for pints instead?” For a second I did contemplate cashing in that absolute golden ticket but any footballers out there will know sometimes the urge to ‘kick a baw’ is just too great. It was an over 35’s Friday night league so I told Raashi (& myself) it would more or less be walking football anyway. That wasn’t quite the case and any residual hopes I had of ‘making it’ as a pro disappeared with the last kick of my career being a terrible left foot shot over the bar as my right knee buckled beneath me. I really should have followed Raashi’s advice given that 1) my knee’s are clearly made of chocolate, 2) I’m an absolutely terrible footballer and finally 3), pints on a Friday night.

Thankfully it’s improving rapidly even though my leg is now the width of a strand of spaghetti. I’m desperate to make it back for our works charity event in the summer, Tough Mudder. That might be quite ambitious but I’m determined to do what I can, the surgeon even said that the stuff they put into my knee makes it ‘stronger than ever’.

The thought of giving football another go did cross my mind when the doc said that but I’ve been well warned by pretty much everyone else that I need to stick to watching it now. I’m actually fine with that as my team aren’t that rubbish any more. When it happened last year, feeling sorry for me, Manchester United put Raashi & I in complimentary box for a game we were going to, we even got to meet Fred the Red here. I chanced my arm this year again but they think I’m at it now.

I had a bit of time off work for this so apologies to anyone we had to reschedule and thankfully we seem to have caught back up now. I was delighted yesterday to finish a dental implant case that took over a year for our lovely patient Matthew here:

Matthew was recommended by his wife Hazel, both just lovely people, what a pleasure it was to treat them! We’ll be sharing some of the results later so keep an eye out.

Take care all and have a great week ahead,

Joe

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2023?

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Almost into month 2 of 2023 already! Where does the time go?! We’ve all had those moments where we forget what day it is but I took that to a whole new level and had a brief moment during the week where I wasn’t actually sure what year it was for a second. I think the COVID years threw me off (as we all know they don’t count) along with the Winter World Cup. It took me a second to realise it was 2023 and not 2024 already, time is flying but not that fast thankfully.

I had my 35th this month too and believe it or not it was actually one of my favourite birthdays. I was woken up with a McDonalds breakfast and some lovely gifts from the kids, had a birthday cake at work and a party of treats when I got home. Manchester United were playing that night and Raashi was bringing me beer and salt and chilli chips while we were 1-0 up. I remember thinking 35th’s are absolutely brilliant. Unfortunately, being 35 not 25, I should have seen the 94th minute equaliser coming as United drew 1-1. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Thankfully there was no last minute disappointments when Raashi and I visited Old Trafford a few weeks before this when I was only a spring 34 year old:

3-0 to United at this one. Not sure what year it was.

At work we’ve just booked one of our charity events for this year too, we’ll be competing in ‘Tough mudder’ in June. Most of the team will be taking part and I’m really looking forward to it. It’s basically an obstacle course including some underwater parts and even electric shock hazards. I’ll need to go easy on the salt and chilli chips in preparation for that one but I’m sure it will be good fun and hopefully we’ll raise a lot of money!

I’ll need to cut back on the last minute visits to the kitchen cupboard too. I’ve developed this habit of standing at the cupboard (half inside it), just before bed, eating crips/nuts/biscuits/whatever I can salvage. It’s a totally unnecessary extra pre bed meal. A wee electric shock cupboard handle might help my preparation in more ways than one!

We’ve all got plenty of time to get fit for it but it seems we’re in for a shock regardless. Buzzing. ⚡️😏

Take care all and have a good week ahead,

Joe

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McCrispy’s for the win!

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Looking forward to a lazy Sunday today after a very busy weekend last week. Raashi and I were on a 3 day dental course last Friday, Saturday & Sunday from 8.30am-6pm every day. It was all about the latest techniques for making crowns (porcelain or gold teeth.) It was pretty full on after working the rest of the week too, maybe even more full on for Raashi’s mum who had the kids the whole time though, think she deserved a crown of her own after it!

Raashi and I putting in the overtime at the Attiq Rahman precision dentistry course

These practice models are great as you can remove all the teeth, fix them, then stick them back in. If only it was as easy as that in real life! Our whole team have been putting in the effort with the CPD (training and development) lately actually. Some of our nurses, dentists and therapists have been on courses all over the UK this year learning new skills. It’s something I’m very proud of to be honest, we have a great team that push themselves to improve so we can continually provide better patient care. We also shut the practice for a day and had an in house event this month with a communication skills coach:

Ashley here came all the way up from Manchester to deliver some training for us. He also happens to be a big Man United fan so you can guess what I wanted to communicate with him about!

It was nice to see our hard work recognised by our peers this month as we were finalists at the Dentistry Scotland Awards 2022. We were nominated for a number of awards and won the categories of Best Charity/Community Project and Best Team. Our very own Laura Grant was a finalist for the Best Young Dentist Award too! That’s another couple of trophies in the bag for our reception area – makes up for Man United not being able to win any lately!

We’re thinking of having a Sunday lunch of champions today and heading to McD’s for the new McCrispy. My only issue is that I had one last night for my dinner as Raashi was out. Now she wants one for lunch and I don’t think I can handle being a mere spectator! If you haven’t had one yet, get involved – they are just sublime. For the ultimate win, stick some chips in the burger too. Our kids never eat all their happy meal chips either so I tend to go around and Henry the hoover them up afterwards. Happy meals really do just make everyone happy.

My daughter Mila has been doing the same with jokes that she’s learning from school lately too, she told me one the other day about dentists: “What did the monster eat after getting his teeth pulled out? …….The dentist!” The monster clearly hadn’t tried the McCrispy yet…

Take care all and have a good week,

Joe

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