I spent most of Monday in bed feeling rotten, the cold has turned into a nasty sore throat, I sound like a dying frog when I do attempt speech and eating (soup) and drinking hurts like fury. I also only really manage to stay awake for about an hour at a time and reading hurts my eyes..

So here are some of the things that crossed my mind on Monday:

Radio 4 is marvellous

The Pope has resigned. Good.

I hope I get better before I run out of Night Nurse.

I’m really glad that I don’t eat many ready meals and when I do they tend to be recognisable lumps of meats, you can’t replace a lamb shank or chicken breast with horse.

Where is that tissue?

Thank goodness I have lots of soup in the freezer because there is very little other food in the house.

Ginger cordial, honey and lemon with hot water is really nice.

I’m hot, I’m cold, I’m hot again.