... I am beginning to sniffle. Woke up this morning with a bit of a blocked-up nose and have been sneezing, and am now dog tired.

Right, am going for once to take the advice I have been shamelessly doling out to the rest of you for the last week and more, and drink gallons of hot Ribena and go to bed RIGHT NOW, at ten pm.  See.  Going. Gone.

Even Proper-er Snow... about 4-6 inches here last night.  First Small Person's school closed.  FSP ecstatic. Fortunately, Resident Geek was planning to work from home today anyway, so after squeezing FSP into so many layers of clothing beneath his waterproof all-in-one that he looked like an overstuffed sausage, they dropped Second Small Person at ( Read more... )

Having foolishly drawn the attention of the cyber-gods to the fact I was feeling fairly chipper in general at the end of last week, Nemesis has predictably descended in the shape of a stinking head cold.  I've spent the last 4 days feeling as though someone's poured concrete into my skull, my sinuses ache, and my nose is red raw from being blown ( Read more... )