thomas Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 8 hours ago, Swarley said: This. Never suffered from hay fever as a kid but it kicked in during my early twenties. So working in the agricultural sector was an absolute joy during the Summer. I could be wrong here but is there not some kind of 7 year cycle for your body, I'm sure I've read about it somewhere. Basically it involves changes to your body and can be the reason why people wake up one day to hay fever or "grow out" of asthma. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
irvine_buddie Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 On 08/06/2017 at 08:53, Hedgecutter said: I presume you're on about the folk that evidently just assume that if a line of parked cars are blocking their lane then they're entitled to half the remaining road. Also add people that think they're entitled to own and clog the stretch of public road / pavement adjacent to their home. I include my own mother in this whereby my mum/step-dad/two brothers had six cars between them and she had a rant at me about how the council said that she was blocking the stretch of busy road in front of the house with four of them. A "Where else am I going to park?" mentality that I also disappointingly heard from a friend recently who was called up for blocking a neighbour's driveway when coming to a party. This is a constant PTTGOMN for me, driving into my estate is like entering a fucking ski slalom course. It's bad enough when someone is parked on the street so you have to let people by or they have to let you by but then you get idiots who actually park half on the kerb directly across from another car parked half on the kerb so you can barely squeeze through the middle of them, god forbid they need to park more than 5 steps from their front door. The worst part is that every single house has a driveway that holds 2 cars easily and 3 at a push. As for people blocking someones driveway, not long after I'd moved into my house my next door neighbours were moving in (new houses) and the guy parked across my driveway blocking my car in. I wasn't actually going out anywhere but was so pissed off I decided to go to the bookies just so I could go over and tell him to move it, instantly decided that I was going to hate this guy. Annoyingly, turns out he's a really nice guy and was very apologetic and I had to swallow my rage. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swarley Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 I could be wrong here but is there not some kind of 7 year cycle for your body, I'm sure I've read about it somewhere. Basically it involves changes to your body and can be the reason why people wake up one day to hay fever or "grow out" of asthma. No idea. I suffered from hay fever from my early 20s until I moved to Australia in my mid 30s. Must be different grass pollens here as I don't get it any longer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomas Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 24 minutes ago, Swarley said: No idea. I suffered from hay fever from my early 20s until I moved to Australia in my mid 30s. Must be different grass pollens here as I don't get it any longer. Pretty sure you're right about different pollens, my wife was told by the doctor to try eating local honeys as that would help build an immunity to the local pollens. The cycle thing has always worried me because I suffer from nothing and I live a fairly unhealthy lifestyle compared to my wife who gets everything, fully expecting to wake up one day and it all hits me at once. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Pretty sure you're right about different pollens, my wife was told by the doctor to try eating local honeys as that would help build an immunity to the local pollens. The cycle thing has always worried me because I suffer from nothing and I live a fairly unhealthy lifestyle compared to my wife who gets everything, fully expecting to wake up one day and it all hits me at once. Tree pollen, weed pollen and grass pollen are the three categories. Tree = March to MayGrass= May to JulyWeed = June to SeptemberI used to get it in the middle of March and wonder why as I always thought Hay Fever came in the summer. It was a doctor who told me it was likely tree pollen I was allergic to. It's since changed over the 15 years(!) and normally I don't have symptoms until June. So I assume I'm now allergic to weed pollen. I've never been bothered by cut grass tbh. I've tried all the supposed remedies as well over the years:- Local honey Vaseline under nostrils and eyesAll the pillsHead stuck out a window on a country lane (genuinely read that somewhere!) The machine Lloyds chemist brought outMore than I can remember and nothing works. My only advice to someone is dark shades. Keeping the air and heat off my eyes tends to help. It's a b*****d of a thing and genuinely ruins my summers which is why I prefer winter. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Hayfever sufferers.. I used to have all sorts of sneezing attacks etc and a tip from my granny always helped. Soluble cocodamol. She used to get super strength ones from the docs but I think Boots do a big box of them so you can adjust strength to suit. No idea why it worked but always seemed to sort out and hayfever or general allergic attacks. Tastes good too (the medicine, not my gran). 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
19QOS19 Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Hayfever sufferers.. I used to have all sorts of sneezing attacks etc and a tip from my granny always helped. Soluble cocodamol. She used to get super strength ones from the docs but I think Boots do a big box of them so you can adjust strength to suit. No idea why it worked but always seemed to sort out and hayfever or general allergic attacks. Tastes good too (the medicine, not my gran). The Hay Fever probably didn't go away, you most likely didn't notice it because you were high on codeine 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 1 hour ago, thomas said: Pretty sure you're right about different pollens, my wife was told by the doctor to try eating local honeys as that would help build an immunity to the local pollens. The cycle thing has always worried me because I suffer from nothing and I live a fairly unhealthy lifestyle compared to my wife who gets everything, fully expecting to wake up one day and it all hits me at once. Pics or GTF. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmic Joe Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 I'd be careful with co-codamol. It's highly addictive... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightswoodBear Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Loratidine from the chemist is what you want. Cheap as chips and far better than the brand stuff that costs a fortune. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 13 minutes ago, Angusfifer said: I'd be careful with co-codamol. It's highly addictive... My gran used to get these boxes that were as big as a shoebox and would plough through them in no time 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 4 hours ago, Swarley said: No idea. I suffered from hay fever from my early 20s until I moved to Australia in my mid 30s. Must be different grass pollens here as I don't get it any longer. 3 hours ago, thomas said: Pretty sure you're right about different pollens, my wife was told by the doctor to try eating local honeys as that would help build an immunity to the local pollens. The cycle thing has always worried me because I suffer from nothing and I live a fairly unhealthy lifestyle compared to my wife who gets everything, fully expecting to wake up one day and it all hits me at once. I first developed hayfever in my early teens, still suffering nearly 40 years later. And it's grass pollen, as per @19QOS19's list. At it's worst in my late teens, if I went Taps Aff during a kickabout in summer, and if I hit the deck, I had itchy blotches for the next hour or so. Murder. And it's in UK only, if I go abroad, the symptoms disappear, only to reappear pretty much as soon as I'm off the plane. Must be the Brexit strain of hayfever that I've got. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 I've always had hayfever and although unchecked the symptoms end up resembling a cross between the flu and ebola, a relatively simple (or small) thing from the doctor always seems to work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Come on, ballet isn't that bad. Personally I enjoy all the meats of our cultural stew. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 8 minutes ago, Tynieness said: It's almost time for my daughter's ballet show. Absolute fucking purgatory. A dad's duty blah blah blah. The great news is she is only in first half so will use the old my son is tired excuse (he is ready to yawn on command) and exit stage left. What a time to be alive... My wife has a good line in brutal honesty. I overheard my daughter asking her this morning if she was coming to watch school sports day. "I sat through four hours of gymnastics competition on Sunday so there's no f****** way I'm hanging about watching three hours of sports day". 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeAreElgin Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 People that wear short sleeved white shirts and a tie. Only acceptable if your surname is Simpson. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tynie Bagstock Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 Just now, Shandon Par said: My wife has a good line in brutal honesty. I overheard my daughter asking her this morning if she was coming to watch school sports day. "I sat through four hours of gymnastics competition on Sunday so there's no f****** way I'm hanging about watching three hours of sports day". She has done well. It really is torture. I used to put my parents through the pain of BB ones as well. I left after junior section luckily for them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Archer (Raconteur) Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 You know when the window cleaner has been when you're just about to drift off to sleep when the wind picks up and batters the gate that they never close behind them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 4 hours ago, Shandon Par said: Hayfever sufferers.. I used to have all sorts of sneezing attacks etc and a tip from my granny always helped. Soluble cocodamol. She used to get super strength ones from the docs but I think Boots do a big box of them so you can adjust strength to suit. No idea why it worked but always seemed to sort out and hayfever or general allergic attacks. Tastes good too (the medicine, not my gran). The co-codamol will strip your stomach lining and you'll die of internal bleeding, but your hayfever will be gone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmothecat Posted June 13, 2017 Share Posted June 13, 2017 You know when the window cleaner has been when you're just about to drift off to sleep when the wind picks up and batters the gate that they never close behind them. Every. Single. Time.I wash my own windows. Never really understood why it's the one thing that folk seem to hire out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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