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Poor Maia: I didn't realise she'd been out so long (and it makes me feel old, remembering her as a promising junior). There are other tennis players I'm aware of out there who are in a similar situation - and at least one ballet dancer I know of, too. Horrible for all of them.

Since those of us in England are about to lose (probably have already lost, in effect, because I get the impression that there's probably not an LFT to be had - and the other nations are only weeks behind us) access to free lateral flow tests, this article suggesting when might be the best time...

Don't remember having this done. (And I definitely didn't get custom-made socks. I wouldn't have minded so much paying for those. But my reference to having to pay one NHS prescription charge per sock was definitely for off-the-shelf ones)

A couple of thoughts from me: If the tiles are the "brick-shaped" ones, so they're laid alternately like a brick wall, en masse they remind me of prisons, and I find them really unattractive. I don't know what lighting you're allowed, but when we got the bathroom done we had to get the pendant...

I have some modal undies from Marks & Spencer - very comfy.

I don't know whether hypromellose would help, or whether it's contraindicated for people who wear contact lenses?

Cotton, or polycotton, I'm not sure. Never washed above 40°C.

The only problem with fitted sheets, as I see it, is that they may shrink. Given that in my experience they tend to vary considerably in fit, this may or may not be a good thing. With one of my fitted sheets, it's a constant battle to get all four corners on the mattress, and I swear it's...

Once again, I find myself looking very much askance at a doctor who runs a website called something along the lines of ".com/org/co.uk']www.dr[name].com/org/co.uk". It's getting to the stage where I automatically distrust any doctor who has what you might call a "personality" website. I don't...

"This may not have been helped by the panel’s membership, which lacked any ME/CFS researchers or anyone who had recovered from the illness, and included lay members who were recruited from organisations with documented anti-recovery and anti-Lightning Process bias." Ouch.

In my experience, those annoying brown ones seem to be pressure bruises, as opposed to "bashing" bruises. Can be caused by leaning on something too hard, for example. And I do frequently get "proper" bruises, which I know in many cases are indeed due to my having walked into something or being...

I think I too probably approved in principle of the plan, even if my thinking was rather more along the lines of: "There are probably loads of people out there on sickness benefit who've had to retire from their jobs due to e.g. a back injury, but who, given suitable support to get back into...

Sacrificed on the altar of ... Yes, rules that were supposed to be in place for some weeks yet, suddenly rescinded. I can't imagine why - oh, wait.

Of course not. They're free.

Clinically extremely vulnerable will no longer be offered Covid guidance by Government as restrictions end https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/medical/clinically-extremely-vulnerable-will-no-longer-be-offered-covid-guidance-by-government-as-restrictions-end/ar-AATUKDR?ocid=ASUDHP&li=AAnZ9Ug "The...

Yowza! Does it cost more than the scooter? I'd say that was daylight robbery. But thanks, anyway.

Thanks, Kitty. I see exclusions include: "5. Theft where your mobility scooter/powered chair has been left for more than one hour, where public access could be achieved. 6. Theft or attempted theft of the mobility scooter/powered chair whilst left unattended for more than one hour unless: a)...

A related question: insurance. Can you get specialist insurance for mobility scooters, probably including 3rd-party liability and suchlike? If so, what steps are you required to take to secure the scooter when it's left unattended? If my caree buys one, she'll have to leave it on the drive...

Which decades are these? :(

There was a report on the news this evening about work being done on Long Covid, in Oxford, I think, where patients' lung scans appear normal - until you do an MRI scan with inhaled xenon, which shows up that there are abnormal areas in the lungs. Edit: Ah, yes, here you are...