Is anyone else down with this current Spanish bug. My throat feels like I am swallowing razor blades, I ache all over and just generally feel even more listless than usual

I am ok at the moment, lets hope it stays that way

Hope you feel better real soon Mitzy

Hope its not the Spanish flu, that killed 40-50 million in about 1918!!!!

And they say WW1 was costly in lives

250000 died in Britain alone, and over 7 million in India.

I read somewhere that more people died in 6 months from the flu that died in the whole of the first WW.

This is how you tell the difference between a bad cold and flu.

Drop a £20 note on the floor. If someone has a cold they will pick it up. If they really have flu, they won't.

Mitz, try gently gargling with a solution of soluble aspirin.

It doesn't work for all sore throats but the doc recommended it once when I had a doozy, and it really helped.

Whats a doozy?

= really bad.

Never heard of that before.

stick around, there are more weird things on their way........

Nice big spoonfuls of honey will do the drink, if not lots of honey in lemon and lemonade, bring to the boil let it cool a little and then drink.

And add a wee dram of whiskey

Well I didn't add that as I know Mitz is a TT


When making for my self I don't add spirit of any kind, believe it or not I am not a spirit drinker so I forgot that ingredient.

Maybe a drop of port?

Wee dram be b*ggered.

A good belt with the juice and honey works much better I find, and I prefer Osbourne Brandy in it to whiskey