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paracetamol up one nostril, ibuprofen up the other, that'll deal with the runny nose. I got quinine tablets from the doc yesterday (cramp, not malaria) but have only just noticed that you're not supposed to take them if you have tinnitus, which I do. So I am waiting for the surgery to call me back with advice, though I don't believe for a moment that they will and I will have to go there in the rain and glare at them.
Poor Robi, you sound in a terrible pickle, it's depressing the way we get run down in winter, and having only 30 minutes daylight oop north there just makes it worse. We need some sort of anti-SAD centre for biddies somewhere in the Midlands where we could bask in electric candlelight all day reading improving works of fiction.