Sickness and health
My throat feels like someone has been rubbing it with sandpaper. I’m sure that hasn’t actually happened. I’d remember. Nevertheless, I have dragged myself into the office. Given that it’s Monday,...
View ArticleCough
This week has mostly consisted of: coughing fits. Coughing until bent double, sometimes. It’s not fun, but it seems to be fading now. The worst part is, I didn’t even take any time off work. My sinuses...
View ArticleShattered
Recovering from a bit of sickness. Fortunately, only a brief illness; I’m pretty much back to myself again.* I was sick enough to take time off work, though, for the first time in a few years....
View ArticleIll
Bleagh. Feeling rather under the weather. I need to snuggle up under the duvet and get some sleep.
View ArticleThe Last Days Of Winter
Still recovering from my awful, hacking-cough cold. For The Mother, who thinks I have had bronchitis continuously since August, this is more evidence that I am leading a terribly dissolute lifestyle...
View ArticleJust for once…
…I am going to write a post without a one-word title. The news is full of utterly incompetent terrorists; politics is all changing;* and the floodwaters are finally dropping.** And, I’ve been all...
View ArticleToday
Today, I’ve drunk several cups of tea. I’ve sat reading for a while; I’ve sat online for a while, and later I’m going to be zooming about the English motorway system.* In other words, just like any...
View ArticleGodlike powers
Christmas came, and brought the flu. I was in bed most of yesterday, aching, coughing and sleeping. We really weren’t impressed by the ending of Doctor Who on Christmas Day. Russell T Davies doesn’t...
View ArticleA small rhetorical question
How long, exactly, does it take for a mild dose of the flu to go away? Because I’m well into my second week of it, now, and I’m getting bored of the constant cough and the fuzzy head. I can, at least,...
View ArticleIn Sickness And In Health
Sickness is a strange thing. So psychological, that you can almost think yourself sick. I’m wondering if it’s going to happen to me – and, of course, wondering about it makes it more and more likely....
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