Abcessive compulsive

On the day: 

23/02/2013 

On the way: 

The conversation floats into earshot . . . "Yeh, and now she's suffering from an abcess."

"Oh that's terrible. In her mouth is it?"

"No mate," he says, the soul of discretion. "she can tell you about it."

Good call. Sensitively done. It's her business, after all, isn't it?

"It's far more invasive than that."

Woah. No mate, not necessary, don't go there, don't . . .

"It's down there . . ."

Urgh. And you started so well.

On the pod: 

I Remember - Stabbing Westward 

On the front page: 
Britain downgraded (The Times)