Poor old Smershy spent the night at the vet’s. Half his face was swollen up with an abscess caused by an infected tooth. He only had five teeth left to speak of. Now he has only three. Not that the loss seems to have cramped his style any. As soon as he got home he gummed up a big fat bowl of mince then went for a nap in a sunny spot on the porch. The vet says he’s heading for renal failure. Our aim is to make his year a happy one.Tonight we’ll be watching Outlander. For those not in the know, it’s aliens versus Vikings. And not before bloody time. Honestly, there are some ideas out there just screaming to be fulfilled and this is one of them.Oh, and the real big news for me this week was that I whupped my boss’s arse at ping pong. I…