Thursday, January 06, 2005

Sneezes and Snuffles

Not so jolly today. I'm laid up at home with a throat/snuffle/feel grotty bug which, after hanging about for weeks, has decided to come out of the woodwork at last.

What a marvellous hacking sound when I cough. It's a kind of gurgle followed by a snap as (presumably) gunk peels off the inside of the lungs, or wherever it is.

I've stepped up the ashtma reliever dose to double, and am sitting/snoozing in a warm house, waiting for the bugs to get fed up and go.

On Qi last night, Stephen Fry asked which animal in the world was the most dangerous, the answer apparently being the mosquito, which he claimed had killed half the human beings who had ever lived. Is this true?

  1. I thought it was the malaria that did for them.
  2. I thought that man might have a good chance of being the most danerous animal

However, these are but the ramblings of a (mildly) sick person, so don't pay too much attention. As others in the world stretch out in the sun, think of me in a kitchen in Britain on a grey, damp day that's already turning dark, and laugh your socks off. Go on - you know you'll enjoy it.

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