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| Thread ID: 145733 | 2018-01-16 05:43:00 | Spontaneous kindness is still alive and kicking | Greg (193) | PC World Chat |
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| 1444867 | 2018-01-16 05:43:00 | I was on the phone recently to an insurance consultant from my bank to change my car insurance. During the discussion I had to keep interrupting to run to bathroom, hacking and vomiting. The agent felt sympathy, suggesting a common remedy of honey lemon tea to ease the symptoms. Her parents own an apiary on Great Barrier island, and she offered me a small pot of her folk's honey. Today I received it in the mail; a half kilo pot of manuka honey! What a sublime gesture to a complete stranger! | Greg (193) | ||
| 1444868 | 2018-01-16 06:17:00 | Nice to know Greg. Have you sorted out your problem yet? | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1444869 | 2018-01-16 09:02:00 | Have you sorted out your problem yet? Nah, thx for asking. Had a raft of tests done but will only get results in a few days. Its been kinda hard, unable to keep virtually any food or fluids down. Lost 12 kg's since I was last weighed - I now weigh less than my little sister. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1444870 | 2018-01-16 18:48:00 | I was on the phone recently to an insurance consultant from my bank to change my car insurance. Her parents own an apiary on Great Barrier island, and she offered me a small pot of her folk's honey. Hmmm, I could be cynical and suggest it helped her sales pitch. Why a bank? They resell other companies insurance, usually cheaper to go direct. |
piroska (17583) | ||
| 1444871 | 2018-01-16 21:47:00 | Hmmm, I could be cynical and suggest it helped her sales pitch. Why a bank? They resell other companies insurance, usually cheaper to go direct. Hmm, cynical, yes. * It was my idea to approach the bank after I got an online quote. * She didn't upsell me at all. * She offered me the honey when the agreement was already done. * They've saved me $11 a month. * My existing insurance is with AMI, so your idea of going indirectly via my bank (Westpac) instead of going direct is wrong in this case. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1444872 | 2018-01-16 21:53:00 | Greg, my grandma was an apiarist, so we had tons of honey when I was a kid great big tins of it. I was raised by an aunt, and her remedy for almost anything (except flea bites) was to have a really hot drink of honey, lemon, and aspirin before bed - hot as you could swallow it, so that your temperature went through the roof overnight and you sweated it out (whatever IT was). Lots of blankets on the bed as well... Well, that was her theory anyway! On occasion she added a little whisky to the mix, even though I was somewhere between 3 and 8 years of age. I guess the hot mix drove the alcohol out anyway. For sore throats (yes, you guessed it) a liberal spoonful of honey and malt vinegar, which you melted in the mouth and let it trickle down over the sore glands in the throat. Sorry to hear you are unwell - best wishes to you. |
John H (8) | ||
| 1444873 | 2018-01-16 22:22:00 | Greg, my grandma was an apiarist, so we had tons of honey when I was a kid great big tins of it. I was raised by an aunt, and her remedy for almost anything (except flea bites) was to have a really hot drink of honey, lemon, and aspirin before bed - hot as you could swallow it, so that your temperature went through the roof overnight and you sweated it out (whatever IT was). Lots of blankets on the bed as well... Well, that was her theory anyway! On occasion she added a little whisky to the mix, even though I was somewhere between 3 and 8 years of age. I guess the hot mix drove the alcohol out anyway. For sore throats (yes, you guessed it) a liberal spoonful of honey and malt vinegar, which you melted in the mouth and let it trickle down over the sore glands in the throat. Sorry to hear you are unwell - best wishes to you.Thanks John. For your sore throat remedy I put cider vinegar instead of malt. I agree with your grandma's remedy too even for kids. People reacted with shock and horror when I used to put half a teaspoon of brandy in my 6+ month old daughter's bedtime bottle of milk. She would sleep right through for up to 7 hours a night. |
Greg (193) | ||
| 1444874 | 2018-01-17 01:50:00 | Malt vinegar was all you could get in those days... Salad dressing was condensed milk, malt vinegar, and if you were sophisticated, add Colman's English mustard and a mashed up hard boiled egg yolk! And we used phenergan instead of brandy ... hard to know whether brandy was more or less toxic than phenergan! |
John H (8) | ||
| 1444875 | 2018-01-17 03:27:00 | People reacted with shock and horror when I used to put half a teaspoon of brandy in my 6+ month old daughter's bedtime bottle of milk. She would sleep right through for up to 7 hours a night. My Mother told me many years ago one of the old type, worldly wise doctors would advise the same remedy, specially to mothers who were at their wits end of having very little sleep. I'm not sure if it was for the sake of the baby or the mother, possibly both. There are no records of any harm done but a lot of verbal ones of it being extremely successful. |
Marnie (4574) | ||
| 1444876 | 2018-01-17 05:15:00 | I have used the lemon, honey and aspirin method for years. I found it worked better with a decent slosh of Scotch Whiskey in it. I slept like a log and usually woke up feeling pretty good. :) Ken |
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