Well Monday i didnt have any electric. United Utilities sent out a notice saying they were turning the electric off at 9am and it would be back on at 6pm. It had the normal warnings - dont open your fridge or freezer doors, leave a light on so you could tell when the electric was reconnected etc. It also had the phone number for you to ring if it hadnt come back on an hour after it was supposed to come back on. I swapped the phone over before i went to bed - from the cordless one to the old one that plugs into the wall. Made sure id charged the mobile up as well so i had that just in case anything went wrong. Well i spent most of the day in bed .. was recovering after having spug down for the weekend!!! Thought 6pm its back on .. dont need...

Ive got a hoover again .. no not Hoover as in the make .. i got a vax from argos ... i'll see how long this lasts .. Just had fun putting it together .. screws that wont go in where theyre supposed to .. and fell out when i tried it .. Anyway it works .. Just tried it out now. Will have to ring my brother up and get him to take the old hoover up to the tip ..

Spugs just rang hes in preston station waiting for the train to accy ... with any luck he'll be here for about 8pm probably about quarter past when he lands. Ive got a pan of broth half made ... will stick the veg in when ive done this .. cos i promised him a pan of broth for his tea. Went down town today the first time for 2 weeks .. and got my hoover and the makings...

... tell you its taking ages for this to go away. Im still full of it .. still blowing my nose for the uk never mind england, and still coughing. Plus i had another fit on sunday night probably from being ill all week ...

Anyway i had some good news .. the spugsters coming down to check that im ok at weekend .. and if im still not well he'll look after me!!!! well he best do!!!

So what have i done all week - stayed in bed all day... then get up later on to show the spugster that im still living ..

By the way before i got ill .. i tried setting the house on fire ... I bought a hoover in May last year ... and when i plugged it in it didnt shoot flames out the back .. but came close...

Ran out of tissues yesterday .. so had to go and get some from the shop .. so thought i'd get 2 boxes just in case .. Good job i did ..went through 1 box in 7 hrs and half way through another box now. My nose is bright red and its spreading out onto my cheeks and the tip of my nose has gone numb!!!

This morning i gave up and rang the docs .. and hes giving me a prescription for antibiotics. Seems ive a nasty chest infection ... thats on my sinus's as well. Have started a cough as well .. Doc says keep going with the menthol crystals, suck on tunes or something like that to ease the throat and sleep sitting up with vick rubbed on my chest. Any chest rubbers out there?

So thats me not off to the railway this...

... manflu!!!!

I feel rotten .. for the last couple of weeks ive been sneezing on and off. Sunday night i got a sore throat .. so dosed it with buttercup syrup and sucked on a couple of jakemans throat and chest relievers to try and ease it. Yesterday morning the cold came out with full force ... and i now have a nose like a belicia beacon .. bright red .. with all the nose blowing ive been having to do. Ive a little bin next to the computer and ive had to empty it twice since sunday because of all the tissues that were in it!!!

Got the menthol crystals out and the big big big mug that i use for them and have been using them. Olbas oil for my pillow at night plus a mug of menthol at the side of the bed...