Mini PSA - Prescriptions

I'm too clever for my own good sometimes. I take three different things for hayfever on and off between March and September each year (fluticasone nasal spray, desloratadine, sodium cromoglycate eye drops). This means that it's worth my while buying a four month prescription pre-payment certificate for the summer. I religiously got new prescriptions each month for the months when this pre-payment certificate was valid. Unfortunately, I thought I'd be clever and take the prescriptions to a chemist just before the pre-payment certificate expired (in order to get stuff with the longest use-by dates) - it expires tomorrow and I went to a chemist on Friday. One of the two prescriptions I had dated back to April and is therefore more than six months old and was out of date. Despite working where I work, despite everything else I know about medicines, something I didn't know was that prescriptions have a six month shelf life. So I missed out on a month's worth of hayfever medicine:-( But never mind. Lesson filed away for next year.

Mini PSA - Prescriptions

I'm too clever for my own good sometimes. I take three different things for hayfever on and off between March and September each year (fluticasone nasal spray, desloratadine, sodium cromoglycate eye drops). This means that it's worth my while buying a four month prescription pre-payment certificate for the summer. I religiously got new prescriptions each month for the months when this pre-payment certificate was valid. Unfortunately, I thought I'd be clever and take the prescriptions to a chemist just before the pre-payment certificate expired (in order to get stuff with the longest use-by dates) - it expires tomorrow and I went to a chemist on Friday. One of the two prescriptions I had dated back to April and is therefore more than six months old and was out of date. Despite working where I work, despite everything else I know about medicines, something I didn't know was that prescriptions have a six month shelf life. So I missed out on a month's worth of hayfever medicine:-( But never mind. Lesson filed away for next year.

I'm not as organised as I think

It's Hallowe'en today. We're having a joint Hallowe'en/Bonfire night thingy at Guides on Wednesday. I have no dressing up clothes in London 'cos obviously when you're a grown-up you don't need them. Any ideas on what I could wear that I might already have/would be very cheap (if I can't come up with anything else I'll just go in plain black or something).

I'm not as organised as I think

It's Hallowe'en today. We're having a joint Hallowe'en/Bonfire night thingy at Guides on Wednesday. I have no dressing up clothes in London 'cos obviously when you're a grown-up you don't need them. Any ideas on what I could wear that I might already have/would be very cheap (if I can't come up with anything else I'll just go in plain black or something).