This wasn't supposed to be like this! It was supposed to be a rundown of fabulous places and interesting people, not an ongoing saga of dental trauma! I've got to go back to the dentist again tomorrow because now that the surrounding teeth have settled a little, I can feel pain in the troublesome tooth, which I shouldn't because there shouldn't be any nerve left to feel anything. Heigh ho.

On a more positive note, and getting back to the fabulous places and interesting whatnot, I nipped up to Stanton Library in North Sydney (a fantastic library, BTW, if you live anywhere near the area) yesterday to pick up some books on Singapore and Malaysia, and came across this marvellous Chinese-themed mural on the hoardings surrounding the North Sydney Council's building work they've been doing on the library for an age. Here are two sections of it:

Mural, North Sydney. 06-Feb-2005.

The baker inside me was also very excited to discover that they've FINALLY got themselves a copy of Rose Levy Beranbaum's Cake Bible, which I'm planning to have a lot of fun with as soon as I can actually eat anything again...