Hay Fever

[Vange Shrimper]

I find going abroad is the best cure for hayfever!

Dont think Dublin is going to help much though. But then you can't really get hay fever in the autumn, can you?

 

[BrettieAngell]

Dont think Dublin is going to help much though. But then you can't really get hay fever in the autumn, can you?

No, just in the summer June and July are the worst months for most people.

 

[Vange Shrimper]

No, just in the summer June and July are the worst months for most people.

Im convinced I have a cold and not hay fever now. :)

 

[BrettieAngell]

Im convinced I have a cold and not hay fever now. :)

are your eyes itching?

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

I don't know if anyone else is experiencing this

And there was me thinking that this was going to be a witty thread about how "Football Fables" had taken the Hay Literary Festival by storm...

:thump:

 

[Vange Shrimper]

are your eyes itching?

No. They were sore a bit coming home from London though on Saturday.

My concentration is flapping a bit, sneezing has been cut down a lot, still got sore throat and a bit sniffly though.

 

[Slipperduke]

And there was me thinking that this was going to be a witty thread about how "Football Fables" had taken the Hay Literary Festival by storm...

:thump:

Cooor, if only. Mind you, I've been told that Waterstones have just ordered 1,000 copies. That sounds encouraging. All I want is 95 sales. That'll be one more than Anthea Turner's autobiography.

 

[londonblue]

Interesting comment. Mate of mine who is a fellow sufferer usually goe's to Spain for his holidays during the hay fever season. He dos'nt experience a solitary sneeze until he steps off the plane at Gatwick upon returning and then his nose and eyes instantly go into overdrive.

Maybe he should fly into Luton?

 

[londonblue]

Unfortunately that dos'nt work. I suffer from it and have been out fishing in a boat 15 miles offshore when all of a sudden have experienced a sneezing fit etc, because the pollen is carried by the wind irrelevant of where you are.

You mean it didn't work for you on that occasion. There is a lot less pollen at sea so the chances of having a bout of hayfever is lower. There is, however, still a chance.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Cooor, if only. Mind you, I've been told that Waterstones have just ordered 1,000 copies. That sounds encouraging. All I want is 95 sales. That'll be one more than Anthea Turner's autobiography.

LOL... I was telling that story at a dinner party on Friday, although said that poor old Anthea had only sold 48 copies...

:D

 

[MrB]

I find going abroad is the best cure for hayfever!

You've not played golf in Portugal then!

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

There is a lot less pollen at sea so the chances of having a bout of hayfever is lower. QUOTE]

Not if your on an island?

 

[Slipperduke]

LOL... I was telling that story at a dinner party on Friday, although said that poor old Anthea had only sold 48 copies...

:D

All of which is a perfect excuse for me to post this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UiJMn2eicE

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

Maybe he should fly into Luton?

Maybe he should stay in Spain till september?

 

[Southend_Lady]

Im going away next tuesday and I can't wait even more for the fact that I never suffer aborad **touches wood**

 

[BrettieAngell]

You've not played golf in Portugal then!

No I haven't i've never been to Portugal, I find Spain no problem though.

 

[londonblue]

There is a lot less pollen at sea so the chances of having a bout of hayfever is lower.

Not if your on an island?

But if you're on an Island you're not at sea. You're on land.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

But if you're on an Island you're not at sea. You're on land.

correct, but you are surrounded by the sea.

 

[sufcintheprem]

This is madness. How can so many Shrimperzoners have it when so few of my friends get afflicted by this terrible disease and the weedier ones at that? I cna't believe that the typical Southend supporting demographic fits in with the people I know with hayfever.

I only mention this because I frequently ripped the p*ss out of my flatmate who was suffering from hay fever all last summer and it was hilarious. Now, it's still quite hilarious but I seem to have got hay fever for the first time after the Gods of Karma swept down and struck me.

I can't help but blame big city pollution but I don't fancy the idea of something getting progressively worse rather than progressively better!

Is it unusually bad this year then? It seems I've only had it since getting off of the plane from Malta.

 

[Billy Bests boot laces]

This is madness. How can so many Shrimperzoners have it when so few of my friends get afflicted by this terrible disease and the weedier ones at that? I cna't believe that the typical Southend supporting demographic fits in with the people I know with hayfever.

I only mention this because I frequently ripped the p*ss out of my flatmate who was suffering from hay fever all last summer and it was hilarious. Now, it's still quite hilarious but I seem to have got hay fever for the first time after the Gods of Karma swept down and struck me.

I can't help but blame big city pollution but I don't fancy the idea of something getting progressively worse rather than progressively better!

Is it unusually bad this year then? It seems I've only had it since getting off of the plane from Malta.

Dont like to sound negative old mate but be prepared to suffer for many years. I first got it when i was 8, many decades ago and the only one in my class and possibly the school who had it at the time. It has taken 40 plus years to more or less 'grow out of it', which the specialists had predicted. One theory which has been suggested in recent years as to why so many people now succumb to it is to do with food produce. Basically all the additives and suchlike in the food system today are weakening our immune systems which is why we are becoming allergic to substances we have never had a problem with before in our lives. Sounds a pretty good reason to me.