Anyone else suffer from this? There really should be a support group.

I've got it bad, phoenix!

So that's two of us. Bring your shoulder over here.

Phoenix how brave of you. I feel I may have a less extreme version of your syndrome. I find I frequently select a container which is too BIG for the quantity I want to freeze and feel I have to choose a second smaller one. This means of course that I have to wash up more than I should so not only is it inconvenient but a waste of resources. I also find that the quantity of wine left in the bottom of the bottle ISN'T the one unit I estimate - there is always another half-glass which has to be consumed.
I am right behind you!

em errors in the estimating of wine only count if wine is spilled , an extra half glass doesn't constitute an error under the rules of Philpott Syndrome.

How very reassuring - I rarely spill wine so perhaps I am not a fellow-sufferer after all.

em consider yourself lucky, I'm a martyr to it. Many's the time that Mr Phoenix finds the contents of the dish cupboard arrayed across the worktop, as I stand bemused, confused and distraught with a pan of some substance at hand.

On the other hand, on the odd occasion that I have mis-judged the contents of the wine bottle, he has found me bent over the glass daintily slurping before attempting to move the afore mentioned receptacle.

I suffer from it too,,, so reassuring to find others. Plus total inability to find my way from one place to another. Glad spilled wine doesn't count. At the risk of being pedantic ( not normally but this flu is having weird side effects) why is it called Philpott syndrome? Ooh quite exciting to think I might have a syndrome instead of just being clumsy. Sometimes I swear the container shrinks whilst I am actually pouring

I'll stand in the middle shoulder to shoulder next to anyone with over flowing wine glasses then I can catch the overflow from either side

I have a cure for the wine problem - buy a box with a tap on. 5 litres for €18.

My name is kitty and I too have Philpotts Syndrome. I have the extreme version which includes the total inability to judge distance and linear sizes too! For example - judging how much foil is required to double wrap the lasagne dish, etc. There is a fairly rude joke about why women can't judge length but I won't go into that now.

Sewsilver - Philpott - fill pot!

Got it in one, kittylester !

My goodness, I have it too! Many's a time I have had soup trickle over the top of the jug and down onto my feet. I have sometimes had a whole series of pots out on the counter before I get the right one. Nice to know there a few of us out there, I'm not alone.

Me too!

Oh no! Now I'm worried again. It was the comment about the dainty slurping of the wine glass that got me. I always thought when that happened that I'd filled the glass to precisely the right level for drinking - just not for carrying. I'm beginning to think I really may be one of you. Not that I am afraid to admit it and I am not in any way being discriminatory - but am not yet quite ready to stand up and make a full confession. However if I do pluck up courage and admit it to myself, then I know that I have a supportive sisterhood of fellow sufferers.

em, whenever you are ready to come out of the cupboard, rest assured that we will be here for you.

We recognise that it can be a hard journey along the road to recovery, (if, ideed that is possible, given the appalling underfunding under the current government, or any previous governments, come to that) but that first step, that initial admission that you do indeed have a problem, is something that only you can take.

em you'll feel better if you admit it to yourself - we all do.

I gather there is a dedicated and of advisers available, if you feel you are bad enough to need their services.

jeni what????

...I only have a minor attack of this syndrome ...to do with finishing off the bottle!!

I think I may have a related condition, (Philpants syndrome) in that I always think I can get in a size 14, but usually overflow into a size 16.

This is not in any way a nappy situation

chrissy

phoenix, dedicated band, perhaps?

nanachrissy yes, you are right, Philpants syndrome is indeed related to Philpots.

However, I'm not entirely sure that you actuallly meant to refer to (and I quote) a "nappy situation" ???

As in a policemans lot is not a nappy one. Nappy one!