My cold has gone! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
\t\tWoo! and indeed, Yay!<\/p>\n
\t\tAll that’s left is this niggly cough – I’ll pickup some super strength, blow-your-head-off-if-you-drink-it-with-alcohol cough stuff later, and I’ll be right as rain* by Sunday (meeting up with Marina then).<\/p>\n
\t\tI have a formula for buying anything medicinal…well, not a formula, more a guideline:<\/p>\n
\t\tDoes it say “May cause drowsiness” on the bottle\/can\/box? If not, move to the next one…in my experience, ONLY the drowsy ones actually work (antihistamines are a fine example of this).<\/p>\n
\t\tI also need some lip stuff – whatsit called? (quick Google) – ah, Lypsyl. Not that my lips are cracked, but it’s great for getting rid of the red soreness around the nose after 2-3 days of blowing copious amounts of snot out \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
\t\tI did actually stop off at Tesco to buy said supplies (I would’ve asked for ‘lip stuff\u2122’ if I didn’t actually see what the stuff was called (no Google in Tesco…well, unless I use my phone<\/a>), but the pharmacy bit doesn’t open until 9…so, here’s a handy tip for anybody thinking of travelling to the UK:<\/p>\n \t\tDON’T GET ILL BEFORE 9AM!<\/p>\n \t\t* Where DOES this saying come from? quick look on Google gave me this:<\/p>\n Right as rain<\/em> is a latecomer to this illustrious collection of curious similes. It may have first appeared at the very end of the nineteenth century, but the first example I can find is from Max Beerbohm\u2019s book Yet Again<\/em> of 1909: \u201cHe looked, as himself would undoubtedly have said, \u2018fit as a fiddle,\u2019 or \u2018right as rain.\u2019 His cheeks were rosy, his eyes sparkling\u201d. Since then it has almost completely taken over from the others.<\/p>\n \t\tIt makes no more sense than the variants it has usurped and is clearly just a play on words (though perhaps there\u2019s a lurking idea that rain often comes straight down, in a right line, to use the old sense). But the alliteration was undoubtedly why it was created and has helped its survival. As right as ninepence<\/em> has had a good run, too, but that has vanished even in Britain since we decimalised the coinage and since ninepence stopped being worth very much.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n