"Joe Hunt"
It's good news for those who suffer from hayfever, myself included !
£6.25
or so a month for all my tablets, nasal spray and eye drops. How many of
the population nowadays suffer from it, does anybody know ?

As with most allergies, the incidence has shown a steep increase in recent
years and there are quite a few theories as to why this has happened, none
of them proved, as yet.

*However*, as a martyr myself to hayfever 30 years ago (GCEs were always
made much worse by that incessant blocked nose and itchy eyes), I've now
grown out of it completely.

It started to leave me when I turned 40. I wouldn't wish middle-age on
you, Joe, but it does have its compensations. I also used to take heart
in the theory that those who have allergies are less prone to cancer
(something to do with having a more sensitive immune system (!)) but I
don't know whether that's been proved or disproved now, either.

- Tom.