Yesterday and today I've had that odd feeling I get before I'm going to be ill.

Lick the sole of your shoe, preferably after being out and about all day in a big city or the developing world. I didn’t drop a dress size, but I am now a full ten years without a cold. My immune system is sadly excellent, so I never have the excuse of having a cold to get out of anything. I’ve gone out of my way over the years to succumb to a flu, with no joy. I had one in 1998, and I came out of it absolutely glowing but with a touch of attractive fragility, looking like an Auschwitz survivor who’d been in a steam bath for about a week.

I've got a cough, one of those wheezy ones that makes it feel like your back is itchy.

I was ill last night, with achy joints and fever till 2am. After which it went away, and now I just have a cough/cold. I'm cancelling today's proposed car charging cruise.

I feel better now, I'm just a bit bunged up.

I feel very odd today. This morning I thought I was getting a migraine, but it's like I skipped the being sick phase and went straight to the sleepy underwater-feeling phase.

I feel all weak and wobbly. But I've just had some minestrone soup, and toast.

Heinz, or home made?

Sainsburys.

My cold is much better. I'm at the coagulation stage now. And I haven't got a migraine today.

I have man-flu.

I might not see the next dawn.