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  1. Woody girl

    Medicine shortages

    Cheap no longer, common, not any more, for the 75 mg dosage anyway.. Even the 300mg standard aspirin has gone up 1,00 % in price. Normaly about 18/20p a pack of 32. Now about £3.80. Apparently, raw ingredients are imported from China. The Iran/ USA war is causing supply issues worldwide as they...
  2. Woody girl

    Medicine shortages

    Not realy, if you dissolve 300mg into a glass of water, you cannot be sure of only drinking a 1/4 dose exactly. Hence the pill splitter for the 300mg tablets. Importantly 75mg is a specific maintainance dose to keep the blood from clotting. Most people don't actually dissolve it, just bung it...
  3. Woody girl

    Coping with the heat.

    Dehydrated Neighbor is coming home this evening.. he just rang me to say thanks. I'm very happy. Glad to be of service. Suffering a bit myself today. Hands swollen and painful. Apparently extreme heat can trigger auto immune responses. I do have a bit of arthritis in my hands. Seems to have...
  4. Woody girl

    Medicine shortages

    My friend j is on hrt, and having problems with that too. At least asprin is a readily available otc drug, so can be hunted down even without a prescription. Things like insulin and hrt are a different matter. Glad I got extra blood pressure meds everytime I left hospital over last winter.i...
  5. Woody girl

    Coping with the heat.

    Just checked the temp of the water in my foot deep wildlife pond..35° at 1.20pm. 30° in the shade next to the house, 37° at the top of the garden in shade under the apple tree. My phone says its only 31° outside. Either I've got 3 different wrong thermometers, or someone is telling porkies! The...
  6. Woody girl

    Coping with the heat.

    Now you are just rage baiting us poor wilting weeds. Grrr! :( Very jealous. ) It looks lovely. Ps, the bus broke down and I'm now walking , may be a bit late.. Keep the kettle going!!! :)
  7. Woody girl

    Plug & Play Solar

    Seriously??? Id never have known! I may be rather handicapped by tech, but I do have several a levels and I'm not an idiot! Hot exhausting day, not feeling great, so possibly sound a bit scritchy, but that seems a wee bit of a condescending remark if I may say so. No rancour, but its pretty...
  8. Woody girl

    Coping with the heat.

    OK, I'm on my way, see you in 20 mins, get the kettle on. Mines english breakfast tea, two sugars. I'll bring the biscuits :) :)
  9. Woody girl

    Coping with the heat.

    Let's all go stay with Herman untill this is over. I'm sure he won't mind. :)
  10. Woody girl

    Medicine shortages

    Hi, I tried to send you a reply to your pm, did you not receive it? I'm still trying to get used to this new phone. Had this problem with someone else too.. I told you I was useless with tech! Get in touch with Toddy, she has my address., I m happy for her to pass it on. Thank you so much. I'd...
  11. Woody girl

    Medicine shortages

    All part of the plan to get rid of the sick people that live too long. Now they can truthfully say it costs too much to keep us alive. NB, it's mostly the older generation (pensioners) that need this type of meds, so, deny them the meds, they kark it, then thet don't have to pay the pensions and...
  12. Woody girl

    Medicine shortages

    For some strange reason, the 300mg are fine and cheap. It's the heart maintenance dose of dispersable 75 mg that is the problem. You'd think, if they had enough stuff to make the cheaper higher dose, then the heart maintainance dose of 75 mg would be easy...no? It's gone up in price 1,000% from...
  13. Woody girl

    Coping with the heat.

    Sure is! Summer 76, riding in jeans, trainers, cheesecloth shirt open face helmet and gloves. Still too hot! (Wiser now )and everyone wears leathers nowadays. I don't envy you today. Especially riding in town traffic. Almost 27 in the house, but laying on my gel cooling mat is lovely!
  14. Woody girl

    What did you buy today?

    Two sets of kiddies sucker on, car window sun shades . Put them on my small bathroom, and toilet windows which gets a lot of sun. Works realy well to shade the rooms and keep the sun out. Well, if it works on cars, why not other windows?
  15. Woody girl

    Your picture of the day...

    Death on the web, cant realy see the web, but a wasp and a spider battling it out. Spider is winning!
  16. Woody girl

    Plug & Play Solar

    My house is about 32 yrs old, just had to have the meter changed about a year ago but insisted on a dumb meter. They promised to come read it twice a year..to try and put me off by presenting me larger bills, no problem, I know my rough consumption so I put money into my account each month, but...
  17. Woody girl

    Coping with the heat.

    29° in the shade at the bottom of the garden in the shade, north side of the house 43° in the shade at the top of the garden.
  18. Woody girl

    Plug & Play Solar

    So, it's not just as simple as popping up a solar kit pannel from liddl, running the flex through the letterbox and plugging it into you hall socket then? Wish I could get my head round this. I'm a complete dunce when it comes to anything electrical. It's supposed to be plug and play. I...
  19. Woody girl

    Carnation Condensed Milk

    Yep hampshire girl here, with hampshire grands and parents both sides. I think it was a wartime thing. I know both my grans and parents used to keep a can for emergencies and make up pints of milk from it if needed. Also, normal milk was often boiled if the weather was hot to preserve it a bit...
  20. Woody girl

    Carnation Condensed Milk

    As a kid, a condensed milk sandwich was a real treat. I got to carefully scrape out the tin after mother had used most of the contents, with a tiny bit left for me to scrape out, and spread it on the mother's pride bread and butter. Yummy! If I need the condensed milk made into caramel, I buy...