A few years back, after my hysterectomy, I was constipated for a couple of days and waiting for my daughter to get a scrip for a suppository from the GP to deal with it.

I finally got too desperate to go and, necessity being the mother of invention, started trying to think about what might do the same job in the absence of the suppositories. Cod liver oil capsules work amazingly well! The gelatine capsules melt with body heat and then the oil just greases the - well, you know. Saved me the cost of the prescription and added another little bit of useful info that has been passed on to others since.

Kendall had the same problem a bit later and I told him what had worked - at this time we were separated by the Big Pond. He seemed a little doubtful about it but the next morning, at work, I got an email which said "I tried the cod liver oil at nine o'clock last night. At eleven o'clock I had a major bowel movement. I should have got out of bed first." Total collapse of me and my workmates wondering what was making me laugh so much.