Have horrible cold, have come home from work (which I couldn't easily skip today, although I felt rough, because I had teaching and meetings) and gone straight to bed. Am thus having to miss book group (although when I phoned the host to let her know, it turned out they might cancel because several other people are unwell - so it may be worth my ( Read more... )

...I'm back.

I think.

Sort of.

After the generalised radio silence of the last few weeks, then had an incredibly stressful and busy couple of weeks at work, followed by being completely felled by a cough/cold bug (yes, you're right, these two things almost certainly are related, how did you guess?) so that I was forced to take to bed and was too ( 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... )