Hello Reader, I just had chilblains on my toes. I think. I’ve never experienced chilblains before, growing up, as I did, on the warm Eastern Cape coast. And, when we visited the wintry Karoo, it was always in gloves and scarves. I had to Google the symptoms: redness and swelling; itching and burning. My partner says it serves me right and he has no sympathy. Apparently, they occur when the small blood vessels are damaged by extreme cold. And, yes, I exposed my toes to extreme cold, and I did...