I've got an unexpected sore throat. I think I'm getting a cold, or it could be flu. More on that as I have it.

It's definitely a cold... I'm hoping I'll be just well enough to exercise the car first thing tomorrow, but too sick to go to work afterwards. It's a finely balanced thing.

I had to come to work. But I feel pretty awful here now.

I'm all cold and shivery

Don't forget to turn the heating up and to hug a hot water bottle.

I'm drinking wine. In Victorian novels they always get stuck into the port wine and brandy when they're indisposed.

When I woke up this morning I was well enough to go to work

I have a full blown cold now. I have a sneeze and a cough. Life has let me down.

My sore throat failed to develop into a cold.

Ooh I'm not well. i've been coughing all night like a consumptive Victorian lady.

Now I'm sitting up in my little bed typing on the laptop,

I also have a cough. It seems to be a thing that's going round.

I have been able to shuffle round the house in a big shawl, and eat some soup.

I've not needed the shawl today, so I'm going for a test stroll outside.