You can never have enough...

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Had to go & look it up,didn't I. And Antimacaassar comes from anti (against)  & oddly enough (!) Macassar, from Macassar oil, a hair tonic  which was popular at one time with men to use on their hair, so the antimacaassar protected furniture from bloke's hair oil.

Went into Whitcoulls to pick up Listener - like an idiot I browsed books first, so now I'll have to go back at some point,having spotted a board book which will do for newest great granddaughter for xmas.

Very interesting article in Listener; it seems some people who are very overweight have different gut bacteria to those who are leaner, & they can be helped with a 'faecal transplant', aka 'poo pill' which sounds bizzare, but is apparently really effective.

I tried to donate blood years ago, but they wouldn't let me, said i didn't weigh enough. I was in my early 20's & about 7 stone. Then years later I'd had infectious hepatitis so couldn't donate - & now, I'm too old.

I donated for decades, and then one visit I got pulled into an office to give a full medical history again - had done one a couple of years earlier, and got told because I was B12 deficient I couldn't donate any more. Weird I thought cos they'd had that in their records for years... But okay, rules change I guess...

Pity because I am B Rh neg and they need that type quite often.