I
think a cold is imminent in the body of your erstwhile blog host. I arrived
home last night with a slightly burning throat and I have woken up with a bit
of a sniffle, and while changing The Nappy of The Rian this morning I sneezed a
succession of sneezes that startled my son into tears and left my nose feeling
like it had been blown three yards away from my face.
If I am correct in my assumptions, then I will very shortly enter into a frame
of mind where I am REALLY pissed off. I REALLY do not want a cold. I find them
irritating in the extreme (see many previous entries for evidence), and the
first cold of the year is always an indicator of the onset of Winter, which I
am REALLY not ready for. So, in an effort to combat the inevitable, I am
drinking hot water with honey and lemon, swallowing echinacea tablets like
they're TicTacs and looking online for every and all available old-school
remedies to hold off a virus. They are numerous, and baffling and amusing in
equal measures. So let's do a little quiz, as both my sons are asleep and the
rain is slamming against the windowpanes:
I will list 8 unusual ways to treat the common cold. Half of those will be
genuine (either from present day or historical times past) and the other half I
have completely invented, so are not to be tried under any circumstances. Your
job is to ascertain which is which. I shall furnish you with the answers
tomorrow....
Go to sleep wearing cold, wet socks.
Go to sleep with dirty socks wrapped around your neck.
Crush garlic into a glass of hot milk and drink it.
Mix linseed, raisins, liquorice and rum.
Mix ginger, brandy, goats milk and nettles.
Hug a stranger (to pass the pain to them).
Walk backwards through a hedge while holding your breath.
Lick the wings of a butterfly.
RC 20-10-24
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