Having shrugged off a slight cold a week back, I seem to have got another one. It was freezing last night, and I woke with a blocked nose. It hasn’t got any worse through the day, but I find that these things tend to develop overnight.
Anyway, I have the essential medicines: whisky, lemon, and honey. Maybe I’ll shrug this one off too.
I hope everyone’s been busily skyping each other. Certainly looks like it.
Meanwhile, Michael Chrichton’s State of Fear arrived in the post today. Judging from the femme fatale in the first chapter, it looks set to be a pretty good read – although the plot seems to suggest that the ‘good guys’ are nature-loving environmentalists. I thought that Michael Crichton was a global warming sceptic?
It’s one of those books that introduces a new character every chapter. But I’m someone who can only handle about four characters at a time. After that, I start to confuse them with each other, particularly if they all have English names like Morton and Evans and Drake. And in the case of State of Fear, unfortunately most of them seem to have exactly such names.
The other thing that I find difficult is when one of the characters is bumped off within a few pages of being introduced. And this happens in the first chapter of State of Fear too – unless he happens to be rescued from the river Thames and resuscitated later in the book. I’m not optimistic about that possibility.
All the same, it looks like the perfect book if I end up confined to bed.
Whiskey, lemon and honey is a great cure, especially if accompanied by several inhalations of burned tobacco. I was told it is an ancient remedy for colds and it seems to work for me just a treat. (Or maybe not; can’t phone in work sick tomorrow…………….)
WHY can’t I get a decent cold to be at home for a few days? I have inherited this cold from a non-smoking colleague who was off sick for a week……… It’s just unfair!!!!!!!!!!!
This year is the first year I have woken up with a stuffy nose and had an irrating cough since I whacked the storage heaters up in October. After watching an, it was an NHS advert about having a cough for more than three weeks it was, maybe a sign of lung cancer. But after having soot like deposits on the wall above one the heaters, I checked out google to see if others had the same problem. Many do, just thought the timing of the advert was good if you need more customers as I do not trust anything to with drug companies or the scare stories now.
I have noticed where I work and clean for the disabled who live in independant living complexes, they have black soot like deposits also, not sure if they refer to deposits like that as pm.2? I have read a fair amount of stuff from the “Country Doctor” who slates of the government about that stuff. Anyway my minds does run away with things sometimes, but good luck with your medicine and book. I should probably put some water bowls around, I also have very dry skin, so I used steam iron to sort the bugs out on my mattress and pillows. I have not been as bad the last couple of weeks so i hope it has done the trick. I also use a salt pipe which I love
Sorry, it should read, after watching an NHS advert
I’m hovering in the limbo of your Skype queue… :)
Why can I not ‘like’ this?
I hope you will get well soon. What is the book about?
W/o needing to add a spoiler alert: you don’t have to worry about Crighton’s coming down on the wrong side of things. That aside, while the plot is intriguing in a damnable way and larded with factual information (and, as he said, it was getting facts across to the General Public that made him put it in novel form), I think you may find the writing itself is clunky and manufactured; and you won’t have to worry about remembering the characters since they;re merely gears in the machine of the plot. When you’ve finished it, maybe you could post your review…?
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This book was my first encounter with respectable, scientific, GW scepticism. It was quite a shock.
Chrichton is a good author. Not great literature maybe, but he tells a rattling good yarn and he knows his science.
It appears Frank we here in Kentucky have a Upper Respiratory CRUD going around. Its hit me even and feels oh so scratchy in the throat and lungs,blocked sinuses and that roaring stomach gurgle!
Sometimes the Headlines just need to be read!
Judge overturns NYC soda ban | News – Home
http://www.news4jax.com › News
17 hours ago – Judge overturns NYC soda ban. State judge called ban on sugary drinks ‘abritrary and capricious’. Author: By CNN Staff. Published On: Mar 11 …
Judge bursts Bloomberg’s soda ban bubble – Video on NBCNews.com
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video.msnbc.msn.com/the-rachel-maddow…/5114180…
7 hours ago
Judge bursts Bloomberg’s soda ban bubble. Ezra Klein reports on a setback for New York City Mayor …
A judge blocked New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s sugary drink ban one day before it was supposed to go into effect.
In his ruling, Judge Tingling found the Board of Health’s mission is to protect New Yorkers by providing regulations that protect against diseases. Those powers, he argued, don’t include the authority to “limit or ban a legal item under the guise of ‘controlling chronic disease.’ ”
http://www.mnn.com/food/beverages/blogs/ny-state-judge-rules-bloombergs-soda-ban-illegal
Looks like a judge who needs to hear a new lawsuit against Bloomies indoor smoking ban ehh!
It might be the same cold re-surfacing, Frank. I had that a couple of months ago – a cold that kept disappearing and re-appearing. Went on for about 6 weeks all told, and I felt quite ill from time to time. OK now, I think, so yours will pass.
Haven’t read the Crichton book – doesn’t sound like my kind of thing. I’m a bit fed up with the Yes/No constant argument re Global Warming and who makes most money out of what and is therefore least to be trusted: both sides make money, I’m sure. Crichton’s point about science, money and politics being fatally mixed up is dead right, though. We can’t hope for scientific truth until research and politics are separated.
One thing I know (purely from observation) is that our weather is more weird than it used to be. (I don’t know whose fault that is – the sun’s, humanity’s?) No wonder we’ve got all these colds and depressed people in the UK – we haven’t had a decent summer since I don’t know when.
Get well soon!
I hope all those feeling under the weather feel much better soon.
Mind you if you will mingle with the general public it’s all you can expect.
Particularly small children, children are little germ factories and I have never been so ill and so often as I was when they were at school.
I am discovering that social isolation and going shopping when there’s hardly anyone else about, can have it’s advantages.
Darn!
Was going to try and set-up a ‘smoky-drinky’ for Wed or Thurs night.
Since antis say that SHS can travel thru electrical wires between places, I fear that Frank’s germs/viruses could travel thru the skype connection and cause me to have a chest cold.
Bad news for a person with COPD!!!! :(
For us ”SKEPTICS and Non-believers” its not an issue.
I GaryK do not believe in witchcraft.
You will write this 10 times then chant the same for 1 week!
Your cured!
Harley,
Witchcraft, fairies, elves, and such may be real. Ghosts tooo.
SHS scares tho, are indeed a bunch bullcrap!!!
Well, that’s why I’m going to stay in bed, and read a book. Heck, last week Junican caught my cold simply by reading my blog about it.
Im the die hard realist………..make em prove it!
But Harley, I can hear the elves running around in my attic.
Especially in the Winter.
Ah, Gary. That will be in the winter months when siting by the fire drinking red wine is at its most attractive. Elves in the attic – bats in the belfry – cockroaches on the ceiling – emanations via the internet – second hand smoke delusions – may be indications of over-indulgence.