…red face. Dermatological treatment in which an ointment is scrubbed into your face where it sits and ferments for 90 minutes and then your head is encased in a high intensity UV unit (someting like a helmet) where you are seriously seared for 16 minutes. (Rather like sticking your face into the core of a nuclear reactor.) The nurses are considerate, though, in that they give you a little hand held fan.

But that’s what you get for spending decades in the sun, without sunscreen. A week from now there will be nary a blotch on the old visage.