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Note to self: if fingernail and nailbed part company, stopping and fixing it is probably a good idea.

(Only about a quarter of the width of the nail, as it happens, but if I said that up front you wouldn't have winced quite so much. Some blood and a few hours of aching, but is fine now. Superglue was not required.)

A bit like getting a cut in the sole of the foot: beforehand it seems remarkably unpleasant, and then when it happens it's just somewhat painful and rather irritating, and you get to eat oysters in revenge. For cutting your feet on oystershells, anyway. Probably not for ripping open a fingernail.

The toucan's profile is prognathous,
Its person is a thing of bathos.
If even I can tell a toucan
I'm reasonably sure that you can.
- Ogden Nash, The Toucan

John McEnroe was as charming as usual, which means that he was as charming as a dead mouse in a loaf of bread
-Clive James