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I happened to scrape my knee the other day, with scrapes being a bit messy as I am on blood thinners. But the receptionist at the hotel at which we happened to be staying (to be found at reference 1) was able to supply BH with the dressing snapped above.

It was called an eye bandage and it consisted of a non-stick absorbent pad - about eye size - which you could tie onto the damaged limb using the built-in strips of gauze. No messing about with scissors (which you might well not have to hand), cutting squares out of pads or anything else. And it worked: by the next morning, all was well and there was no tell-tale blood on the sheets either. Made in China.

So this morning, I thought it might be an idea to have some of these pads about the house. My regular chemist no, Boots no, Superdrug no. All they had to offer was the pads from which you cut your bit of dressing and the gauze strips separate.

Back home with Amazon and his search function knows all about 'eye dressing with pad' and turns up the very thing. Pack of ten for next to nothing, with postage covered by my Prime subscription. Perhaps they don't cost enough for a high street chemist to bother with.

PS 1: earlier this morning, I had been interested to read about Ocado at reference 2, a company which it seems has bet big on pushing into the international scene since it parted company with Waitrose. The share price has been a bit volatile and the backers might be getting restive, but the founder, an ex-banker, perhaps a Musk or a Bezos wannabee, seems to have found a way to pay himself a great deal of money. So if it were all to go pear-shaped he will have a good cushion to fall back on.

On this account, a very hi-tech, very expensive solution to the fast home delivery of groceries, only really suited to big urban centres, such as London, where they started out. Not so obvious a fit to the wide open spaces of the USA or Australia.

I shall continue to keep an eye out for reports.

PS 2: further poking tells me that the product comes from Reliance, of Stoke-on-Trent, at least in the first instance. Quite a lot of their products are intended for use in commercial kitchens. And Wikipedia tells me that this Reliance is the UK arm of a big Mumbai company. Both of which fit with Denham Grove.

References

Reference 1: https://denhamgrove.com/.

Reference 2: How Ocado’s American dream fell apart: A partnership with Kroger was meant to prove Ocado’s business model - it may instead be the British group’s undoing - Philip Stafford, Gregory Meyer, Financial Time - 2025.

Reference 3: https://reliancemedical.co.uk/.

Reference 4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliance_Health.

Reference 5: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reliance_Group.