Brrrrrr!

[Acrylic-bob]

Now that the nights are drawing in and the leaves are turning colour and the first gale of the autumn is about to blow in from the North Atlantic, my thoughts have turned to cold remedies. I like to be prepared! Being a Taurean and a smoker whenever I get a cold it usually settles on my chest and hangs around for weeks.

My great great Grandmother, lime-wash lizzie, (Acrylic had not been invented then and she couldn't spell distemper) while she wasn't organising the Moaning Old Washer Women and Mill Girls Almalgamated Union, of which she was a founder member, swore by boiled onions as a sure and certain preventative for the common cold. She could very often be found during the winter months - September to July - with her chest and throat swathed in poultices made of boiled onions. She claimed that she had never caught a cold in her life and claimed this as vindication of her onion obsession. The fact that nobody wanted to venture within several feet of her thus reducing the possibility of her catching anything to zero seems to have been lost on the barmy old dear.

Does anyone have any favourite cold remedies they would like to share?

 

[accymel]

urrgghhh dont fancy stinking of onions LOL tho they say garlic is good to prevent colds, me i prefer hot blackcurrant lemsip when im full of a cold altho aromatherapy pure lemon oil on a tissue or poultice is good for stuffy noses.

 

[accymel]

Ooooh & not forgeting a good nip of brandy well if it doesn't get rid of the cold after several glasses of that doubt you'll feel it as much anyway pmsl

 

[SPUGGIE J]

Whiskey squeeze of lemon and a teaspoon of sugar in hat water. That before bed and I feel better and it helps sweat it out.

 

[accymel]

Theres many variations with the whiskey rather than sugar they put honey instead.

mmmmmm Russians have the ole voddie & its cold there in winter

 

[SPUGGIE J]

Once tried it with sugar and hated it didnt taste the same and as for vodie russians drink so much of it they dont feel the cold or anything else for that matter.

 

[accymel]

Spuggie thats very true everything goes numb if you have plently of it LOL

 

[SPUGGIE J]

Makes me wonder how russia manages anything with their medicinal drinking. Mind you with those long cold nights what else is there to do.....

 

[accymel]

Mmmmmmm there are other ways of keeping warm & when the voddies too much LOL

Makes me wonder how russia manages anything with their medicinal drinking. Mind you with those long cold nights what else is there to do.....

 

[SPUGGIE J]

Mmmmmmm there are other ways of keeping warm & when the voddies too much LOL

Yes making something say like a deerskin coat and fur hat as well as..........iceskating.

 

[accymel]

Blimey they know how to have a good time dont they LOL

Yes making something say like a deerskin coat and fur hat as well as..........iceskating.

 

[SPUGGIE J]

Blimey they know how to have a good time dont they LOL

Try anything else and it would fall of with the cold. Even icecles snap.

 

[accymel]

ouch sounds painful or bits would freeze together

 

[SPUGGIE J]

Brings a new meaning to frozen meat and veg.

 

[accymel]

Ooo u have to bang them about in order to seperate them

Brings a new meaning to frozen meat and veg.

 

[SPUGGIE J]

Could be worse if they use a pan of hot water to do the thawing.

 

[accymel]

Could be worse if they use a pan of hot water to do the thawing.

things crack dont they ????

 

[SPUGGIE J]

Depends on the size of the crack. A small one is ok when just below freeing while a large one is better when below -25 degrees so we are ok in the uk. Besides wouldnt want the fuel bill or the medical ones for that matter

 

[accymel]

Blimey spuggie one ponders how you know about these things

 

[SPUGGIE J]

Worked in -15 degrees and thats without a wind chill factor and have seen the outcome from certain acts of nature and trust me there are place frostbite aint welcome.