And we're here. Right. Welcome.

Welcome to Offer. Let's just have a little check-in with fees back. Any progress?

Well, no, not really. And it got usurped by a child's medical need. So that's absolutely fine.

Nothing too serious, though, we need to say, no, no. But sometimes that's quite helpful, isn't it?

Don't you find? What, when it takes your mind off your suffering?

Yeah, when you just think, okay, I can't deal with that, so I've got to go and deal with that.

I'm sure my back will be absolutely fine. Do you always take note of the advice on the

painkillers? You know that you shouldn't take this for more than three days and all that kind of

stuff. I'm not suggesting that anyone takes over the normal recommended dose, but I often think

that those type of warnings have come to mean nothing to people.

Would you agree?

I think that's very interesting.

I think over-the-counter meds are so, I mean, they're so, well, are they overused?

They're certainly.

They're ubiquitous, aren't they?

That was the word I was groping for, ubiquitous.

Because I remember in my childhood, you'd open the family medicine cabinet, and that generally there'd be TCP, germaline, possibly

paracetamol, possibly cailin and morphine for your dodgy belly or whatever, and that would be it.

Maybe calamine lotion. But also, you would have a family medicine cabinet these things weren't things

in my memory that anybody carried out and about with them they didn't whereas now i defy all of our

beautiful lovely lady listeners in particular i bet you've all got a small pharmacy in your handbag

almost certainly and i never leave the house without some form of I bet you've all got a small pharmacy in your handbag.

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