Thursday, April 23, 2009

Chic tourists in Mayfair, medicines and placebo effect, a touch of domesticity

Unusually for me, I sat and watched a tv prog. tonight. Unusually because I don't find too much which is on very gripping...
Anyway, this was about effectiveness/not of medicines of differing types,i.e. homeopathic, herbal, conventional, so-called preventitive methods.
Naturally in the limited time available and according to who the prog was mainly aimed - i.e. the 'normal' lay person such as myself - it was fairly superficial, however, it was also rather informative.
Within the conventional meds part, there was a small experiment about over-the-counter pain-killers which I won't bore you with in full.
Suffice it to say that the placebo effect of believing you are taking pill 'a' as opposed to 'b' appeared to be proved. Much more to say on this, but not right now...
Earlier in the late afternoon I was in domestic mode and watering the garden, washing out the bird bath so that I don't poison the poor birds...
Fabu weather in London again today so yet earlier, after a morning at work, I walked around combining some chores (yes, more to tick off the to-do list!) with drinking in the pre-marathon atmosphere of London...
Many tourists around and I just adore people watching whilst having a coffee in a cool cafe or just walking.
Thus, a chic American woman with impossibly thin lower legs and her partner gently ambled out of Claridges as I passed by and impeccably smart colour-coordinated Italians wandered near their consulate. I do enjoy meandering around Mayfair!
Tomorrow I need to buy a ticket for another long weekend in Paris for late May/ early June. I just love being able to get there so often and easily with Eurostar.
And there are a few other things to do - but right now a horizontalal position is what I crave...

Night night J xx

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