Weeknote 22
Dental horrors, Foodie discoveries, Frameworks work
Dental horrors
For over a decade, I'd visited my increasingly oversubscribed NHS dentist near my family home each year, which was quite a long and expensive trek for an increasingly shorter and less than comprehensive checkup. This week, I finally took the plunge into private dentistry following the alarming discovery that my mouth had rather resembled that of a vampire each time I went to brush my teeth for the past couple of weeks. My new private dentist discovered a large cavity, which of course left me with little option but to make a relatively large hole in my finances to get it filled.
Foodie discoveries
After a day of much brushing and flossing, I'd recovered enough from the strenuous trials of dental drilling to go out and eat delicious foods again. First up was a visit to Camden for Afghan street food at Two Lads Kitchen. I'd the signature dish, an Afghan veggie wrap of smokey spinach, mashed chickpeas and a zingy secret green sauce. This was easily one of the best wraps I've eaten, step aside Tex-Mex burritos!
![wrap rolled up in paper with spinach and mashed chickpeas](https://calumryan.com/media/pages/articles/weeknote-22/4a6698d5c5-1663524382/wrap.jpg)
After that I'd still room for a fluffy mango chiffon cake at another new discovery, Kova Patisserie.
![Plate of mango chiffon cake](https://calumryan.com/media/pages/articles/weeknote-22/bb9b607c92-1663524387/cake.jpg)
Closer to home, on Sunday I went to try out a new vegan café in Tunbridge Wells for a brunch of paprika spiced tofu, black beans and spinach with avocado and potato rosti at The Plant Base.
![Round plate of paprika spiced tofu, black beans and spinach with avocado and potato rosti](https://calumryan.com/media/pages/articles/weeknote-22/aeb38d2a9d-1663524400/tofu.jpg)
Frameworks work
The team I'm on at work has been devoting time away from client work to find a suitable frontend framework. It's hoped this will help us all as a team to make websites using a more consistent approach, besides GOV.UK's Design System. A few days of technical research sped by, and I think few of us were fully decided on which approach was the ideal solution for the array of frameworks out there.
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