I don’t know, I guess not everyone is happy to pop down to Luscious Lucy’s Emporium of Filth 
I’m sure there are other online specialist purveyors. I must admit, I’m surprised at the “high street” location of some of the shops. It would be very embarrassing bumping into the local parish priest or vicar as they left the shop clutching a brown paper bag.
Would the vicar be going in or out?
If he/she was going in one could surmise he was on a mission to save souls, if coming out (no pun intended) clutching a bag, less so 
I felt sure everyone knows it by now 
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Just to clarify they havent shafted me yet 
Get well soon David.
Thank you John, the doc is coming to see Fran tomorrow and he always asks if I want to be included in the visit. Very handy because it saves me ever having to sit in his waiting room, Of course, unlike her, I do have to pay him but fair enough. 
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It works with glasses
Do you take Montelukast at night?
It is specially prescribed to help asthmatics with coughing at night.
I am sure your new pillow will help.
I have an electronic bed which I bought after my mastectomy and which also helps with my asthma.
Good luck.
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No, some cough syrop advised by the pharmacy till the doc returned from holiday, but he has been this morning and given me a prescription, no idea what it is, just hoping the pharmacist can read his writing. The puffer helped last night, plus sitting upright for an hour reading at 3am.
Just as an aside, I am surprised to see 5 likes in a humour thread merely for thanking @John_Scully for his concern. 
Anyway, back to the said thread:
Fred was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young ‘pullets,’ and ten roosters to fertilize the eggs.
He kept records and any rooster not performing went into the soup pot and was replaced.
This took a lot of time, so he bought some tiny bells and attached them to his roosters.
Each bell had a different tone, so he could tell from a distance which rooster was performing.
Now, he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report by just listening to the bells.
Fred’s favourite rooster, old Butch, was a very fine specimen, but this morning he noticed old Butch’s bell hadn’t rung at all!
When he went to investigate, he saw the other roosters were busy chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing, but the pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover.
To Fred’s amazement, old Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn’t ring.
He’d sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one.
Fred was so proud of old Butch, he entered him in the Brisbane City Show and he became an overnight sensation among the judges.
The result was the judges not only awarded old Butch the “No Bell Piece Prize,” but they also awarded him the “Pulletsurprise” as well.
Clearly old Butch was a politician in the making. Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the unsuspecting populace and screwing them when they weren’t paying attention.
Vote carefully in the next election, you can’t always hear the bells.
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A donnish esoteric one, but @Vero and a few others might smile
If anyone else is intrigued - La Disparition (roman) — Wikipédia
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