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Hello, Elle!
According to what I read Dundee Uni is a world leader in medical research.
Here is one item.
https://www.dundee.ac.uk/news/2017/vaccinating-against-psoriasis-allergies-and-alzheimers-a-possibility-research-shows.php
It would be wonderful if a vaccine worked.
I think it may be a virus that attacks cucumbers that is helping the research.
You are a scientist, so you read it, then explain to a thicko like me what it is all about?
Your cockney buddies did not know what "clock" meant, so fingers crossed (why fingers crossed?) they know "butcher's hook"!
Glad to hear all is well in the North!

Update, Elle!
This ties in with the first report I posted.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-41780810

Hi, Rusty!
I am but a Biomedical Scientist who has specialised in Haematology.........and who also has not practised for a very long time!
Your article is very interesting indeed, but somewhat complicated for me.
I have found this reference though, which says much the same thing, but more in "layman's" terms.......
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-5008609/Could-CUCUMBERS-lead-cure-Alzheimer-s.html
I hope the link works ....
and, of course, that it is accurate.......
I think it is understandable?
I shall be getting a reputation in the park if I keep coming out with these "peculiar" phrases!
What was that one about asking the time?
I've forgotten it now......

Hello, Elle!
Yes, that is an understandable article.
I think they are ready to start human trials.
It is encouraging!
"Asking the time?"
Do you mean "clocking something"?
As in "seeing or observing" something?
I can't recall anything about asking the time.
My old Mother-in-law called a clock, a "knock".
Have you heard of that?
I have not heard it used for a long time.
It is in Chambers.

Hi, Rusty!
No, as I recall, the expression I am meaning had nothing to do with "clock/clocking" - this other discussion about asking for the time, happened on a different occasion?
I expect if I scrolled down through umpteen posts, I might find it, but I'll give memory a chance first....!
I put the question to several folk in the park...and no one told me the time!
I commented on that...can you not remember?
Oh Lordy, whatever was it?
This will drive me mad now..........
I'm not sure what you mean about a clock being called a "knock"?
I cannot find that definition in Chambers under "knock"?
or under "clock"?
I have found, though, that a clock can be a beetle!
Now did you know that?

Update, Rusty!
"How 's the enemy?"
This is the question of which I was thinking!
It is supposed to mean "What is the time?"
although I had never heard of the expression!

Hello, Elle!
"How goes the enemy?" it was!
The "enemy" is "time"!
It is fairly well known, I think, but apparently not in Bromley!
My Chambers has "clock" under "knock", the last entry, after "knock" to do with cricket.
What I mean by "knock/clock" is that quite a few Scots call a clock a "knock".
It is an old Scots word.
Yes, I know about the beetle.

Posts crossed!

Hi, Rusty!
Wow, crossing like that with the answer was spooky!
Now, I must apologise........I checked my dictionary again for "knock" and I didn't look properly the first time!
Yes, it is there , following the cricket reference.
I shall try talking about clocks, as in beetles, tomorrow........

Good morning, Elle!
Woke up to frost!
Fine day, though!
Any frost with you?
Have you been to the park to meet your friends yet?
I have no plans for today.
Have scraped the frost off my car and bought my paper.