So, what do you call things?

Oh I bought some of that a few weeks back! You had to mix it up into a gloop. No way could I swallow it. Chucked it out. Paid a fortune for it too from Amazon.Holland and Barrat do it cheaper, but they add sugar, which defeats the object.

I bought it for my silent reflux. (Desperation measures)

I did like mentholatum rub. Wish you could still buy that.

We had to wrap all the condoms into little brown paper packages. There was one enormously fat lady who used to come in every week for a packet [of 3] Ha ha!

Probably gonna get told off again! Jings, why is your reflux silent?

Ah, Jings, we are toasty warm with our multi fuel stove

Well, JBF, I wish we had had a handy fireplace. My Mum was the sort who held your nose till you swallowed

I loved Minadex and Nurse Harvey's Mixture. When I had a sore throat, my granny used to put Flowers of Sulphur on a spoon, and blow the stinky yellow powder down my throat. Child abuse, certainly!

I dunno wot. It's what they call it.

BBb they used to try that to get me to eat food. Ha! They should see me tucking in now!

narrowboatnan that reminds me of my caravan.

Rose Hip Syrup- delicious but bad for teeth.

Milk of magnesia......yeuck!!

Milk of Mag ...very good at quelling nausea but then find you have diarrhoea! Or am I th I king of Andrew's Liver Salts?

My Grandma use to end me to the chemist for Palmint. It was a pink medicine no smelled of mint. If you were lucky she gave out a spoonful

Just watching a documentary on Howard Hughes who was addicted to codeine. The old girl who used to but 25 every day must have been addicted. The pharmasist knew she bought them.

I'm sure that's spelt wrongly. She said talking to herself again!

I have a sitting room with sofas. And a dining room with linen napkins that come out when we have guests. Otherwise it's a bit of kitchen roll if needed.
And we go to the loo.

We have breakfast, lunch and dinner, though I don't often have breakfast, and lunch is a quick forage in the fridge - dh makes his own.

I am a southerner who wouldn't say 'tea' except as in cup of, or afternoon tea, I.e. cakes and sandwiches, which hardly anyone has any more. (Do they?). But I have northern friends who say 'tea' meaning evening meal, and it has never occurred to me that it's anything to object to - it's just different. Same as a northern friend referring to what I call 'fairy cakes' as 'buns'.

Should add that I had a mother who was very hot on U and non U! I was brought up to say 'lavatory' which I always thought was a horrible word somehow. Would prefer 'bog' any day.

Don't like bog [ used that word at school though, we all did, to sound cool]
but never used the word lavatory either , or worse, lav!
In the North [generally speaking] a cake means a large cake, a small cake is a bun.Cue confusion when I met DH [ a soft Southerner] who I imagined had just scarfed a big cake.