Being prepared.

I'm amazed that you are all so organised! I never take anything like this, perhaps a pack of tissues if I remember. I always knew I wasn't a proper mother and now I realise I'm not a proper granny either (slinks away in shame )

I was surprised at the smell; not sure what I was expecting but it certainly wasn't something resembling germoline. But at least I now know what she used on the horses. We were chatting to someone at Punchestown a few years back who told us that she used her products on the horses; I though he meant she put mascara and face powder on them .

I can't get that image out of my mind now. I will never look at a racehorse the same way again

Well, at least I now know what to use if I get Mud Fever .

I use it mainly Jane as it works better for me than EA Eight Hour Cream.

Like janeainsworth only without the last 3, plus always Naramig for migraine, to be placed carefully by the bed in case. I also have Savlon Dry Spray, otherwise known in our family as Magic Yellow Spray (just the threat of it stopped tears in a flash). Never heard of Lucas Pawpaw until now, when I read it above I assumed it was for a canine companion.

Yes that's what I thought too Icy till I googled it

Good grief! The chemist must have seen you all coming! OK I don't travel abroad now and I do take my medication for any overnight stay but that's it. Why so much?

Not quite all of us, goldengirl, I'm with you on this one. As I said in my earlier post, all I really need is my lip salve!

I've got a couple of ibuprofen tablets in my bag.

I do take quite a lot with me.
Paracetamol and co-codamol. (One of each at night instead of two co-codamol.)
Glaucoma eye drops.
Kalms sleep tablets "in case".

I did take Alendronic Acid but I think its messed up my stomach. Therefore
Gaviscon tablets in the form of those generic Alginates.

Dry skin cream.

Athletes foot cream.
Sturgeron on anything much that moves.
Hot water bottle. Soothes the back when the co-codamol is used up.

I haven't heard of half of these. I feel seriously under-edumacated.

Sturgeron sounds like something that caviar comes from.

Oh goodness! For travel sickness! That reminds me of when I had a drug scare with DS and phoned the NHS. He came back from a school trip and I found a single luridly packaged tablet in his lunch box.

Well, what would you think if you found a large tablet packed in red and orange called 'Joy Ride'?

I love the smell of Germoline! [strangewoman].
Racehorses often have lovely long eyelashes.

If the above statements sound random, they are in response to some posts above!

Paw paw is supposed to be good for quite a lot of things (I do not like to eat it however delicious it is said to be) but Tea Tree Oil is best if we are looking at Australian products.

I've only got as far as juliegransnet's comment (no.2 in the thread). It reminded me of the time I had a call from Minibags's primary school. They wanted me to come and collect her because there was a tick on her neck that they were "worried" about (well, I think they were worried about her, actually).

I said: "I'll bring some gin."

WHAT?!

"Gin to sozzle it then I can pull it off."

So I did.

Since then I've acquired a tick extractor thingy—bit like a tiny bent fork—which is VG.

But (cheap) gin is still useful to disinfect the spot where the tick sunk its gnashers in, so to speak.

I like germolene too, though for its usefulness rather than its smell.

Had a friend in Thailand who ate papaya to deal with constipation and for diarrhea (not at the same time, at least I don't think so).

Tes tree oil is viciously astringent. I can't use it, nor anything that contains it.

In my handbag I always carry aspirin, immodium, buscopan and Compeed blister plasters. I then feel I can tackle anything the world chooses to throw at me.

Tea tree oil shouldn't be applied neat to the skin (apparently, although I have done so). Just a couple of drops in the bath is good, or a couple of drops mixed with body lotion. It is also supposed to kill off head lice (just a couple of drops in some oil).

thatbags you've done it now! I shall add a mini bottle of gin to my ginormous (hah!) handbag forthwith.

Does ouzo work in the same way? I've just cleared several bottles out of a cupboard but haven't got round to throwing them away as I thought I might find a use for them [the contents not the bottles]. I'd heard that Rakki [sp] was medicinal but I'm not sure that I've got that [just going to have a look].