I only had an older brother,  so No,  we didn't share clothes.  

Quote from: Ruthio on April 24, 2026, 10:04:34 PMGolden Eye Ointment is exactly what the pharmacist at Boots recommended and sold me last week.
It doesn't hurt any more, so from that point of view it's very much better, but still red and swollen, I suppose it will eventually disappear but it's taking its time!

Good grief Ruthio,  I didn't even know they still made it.
What a pity you didn't ask the pharmacist earlier, and it might have gone by now.

Quote from: Mups on April 23, 2026, 09:56:11 PMSo did I.
Didn't we used to use something called  'Golden Eye Ointment'  on them?
Or I remember hearing it said to rub a gold ring gently over them.  Something to do with the gold healing I think.

Golden Eye Ointment is exactly what the pharmacist at Boots recommended and sold me last week.
It doesn't hurt any more, so from that point of view it's very much better, but still red and swollen, I suppose it will eventually disappear but it's taking its time!

I'm a middle child, always a rebel!!

Totter agree

And he was looking to charge £450 an hour!

So that was the end of The Jockey
The ground's  being cleared to play Hockey

Quote from: muddy on April 24, 2026, 06:13:00 PMThey must be lucky to survive

Yes,  I agree.
But on the other hand,  perhaps that is why nature gives them multiple eggs to hatch,  to hopefully increase the chances of one or two surviving.   Unlike us,  who usually only give birth to one at a time.  

I suppose when baby birds first leave the nest and can't fly properly,  that is when they are most vulnerable to predators.  

Brendan O Neill had this to say about the incident
 
"Make no mistake, the assault of an Orthodox Jew in Slough this week, who was hit and called a "baby killer," was a militant expression of the new blood libel spread by the new priestly class: bourgeois antizionists. It's the 21st century and England's Jews are once again having to negotiate madmen and mobs accusing them of lusting after the blood of innocents. For shame."