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[venta]

A few months back, florence90 got scarlet fever, and I pointed out to her that no one has sensibly had that since the 20th century began. It's clearly an illness suffered by droopy heroines in Victorian novels.

However. The onset of cold weather has reminded me that I'm just as bad. Every year, without fail, I spend most of winter with chilblains.

Now, according to the Forgotten English desk calendar I had a few years back, "chilblains" is in the ranks of the forgotten. I don't know if that's quite true, but really - all winter you hear people grumbling about coughs and colds and the like; chilblains are never mentioned. Lemsip constantly bring out new, improved snazzy cold cures. I see no miracle Chil-Go gracing the shelves of Boots-the-Disappearing-Chemists.

Is there anyone else in the world, anywhere, who also has skin which hasn't realised that chilblains are so last century ?

Comments

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Me!

I don't get them very often, but I do still get them. Have cruddy circulation generally.

I suppose they're just not as elegant as colds, lacking as they do the drippy noses, evil-sounding coughs, puffy eyes, croaky voice... Hang on...

[(Anonymous)]

Try Snowfire ointment, if you can still get it. Dancing barefoot in the snow is the old wives'cure, except that snowy winters are found only in Dingley dell nowadays. then there always urine .....

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

Dancing barefoot in the snow is the old wives'cure

This goes a long way towards explaining why the old wives had so many chillblains in the first place.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Yup, have Snowfire ointment. No idea if you can buy it these days, my tablet looks like it was dragged screaming out of the Ark.

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

One of the things i'm auite prone to thanks to dodgy circulation. I've been good at avoiding them for a while now though.

(Boo, i'm back..)

[venta.livejournal.com]

And in general, I thought I had reasonable circulation.

And hullo, welcome back. I hope you haven't gone a funny colour too ? Let me know if/when you're about this weekend, so I can be regaled at some point with tales of your doings in forn parts...