Ria Bacon: editor & writer

Linguist with wanderlust,
From the hills of New Guinea to the halls of the Sorbonne,
From the beaches of Bassam to the fields of Friesland,
From the catacombs of Rome to the Blue Mountains of Jamaica.
From the heather of the Veluwe to the dust of Dakar ...

Currently resident in the Land of Sea with a small tribe of kids and Mr B.

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...in Arcadia ego is a pun on a painting by Poussin.

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Let’s drink a drink a drink

Pharmacies in Jamaica are wonderful places, Aladdin’s caves of apothecarial delights, cornucopias of … well, you get the drift. I love browsing through their vast and varied stock. Besides medicines, their choice of sale is surprisingly unpredictable and might include stationery, toys, clothes, CDs, newspapers, cigarettes and vases. Very useful places indeed.

All pharmacies will have a

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5 comments to Let’s drink a drink a drink

  • Lily the Pink… bloody hell, we’re going back some now, aren’t we. Who on earth was Peter Whelan… some old headmaster with a bad dose of the piles? In truth, there’s a couple of verses there that I wasn’t familiar with… but then, I was only a titch when that was released.

    “…to help you feel better during menstruation and menopause”

    It’s Gin, isn’t it?

  • I have never heard of it. Which pharmacy is your favourite… mine was Discount Pharmacy by Manor Park… Next was Manor Park Pharmacy itself, but it was a distant second.

  • Ria

    MB – The new one at Loshusan has very soothing lighting and no customers. They also have (sell?) very realistic life size porcelain dogs.

    UG – heheh-hic. It’s only 10% proof. Used to be 20% apparently. Helps disguise the taste of the Jamaican Dogwood bark (woof!) and Pleurisy root.

  • ivo

    Great. Nobody knows Lydia Pinkham here in Italy: can i be your franchisee? :-)

    ZS

  • Ria, well, if they have no customers they probably won’t be your favourite for long. Now in that plaza my favourite establishments are the Haagen Dazs ice cream store and the Acropolis Gaming Lounge!

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