A light blue plastic box, about the size of a paperback book, with a clip on lid, inside which was a tube with a screw top, which held a glass syringe in surgical spirit, a circular tube in which you stood the aforementioned tube so that you could get the syringe out without spilling the surgical spirit, two perfectly designed little slots for vials of insulin (monotard and actrapid, in my case), and two other little gaps for needles and swabs. I was quite sorry to see it go when they brought in plastic syringes…