Buy
These extremely chic and, most important, very practical baby bloomers for friend with new baby – or your own baby, even. From the very modern and completely British Clary&Peg. Also, only £15, but could be from Bonpoint.
Cook
Start practising your Hallowe’en biscuits this weekend, using this gingerbread recipe.
Inhale
First Defence. We are right in cold season, if you hadn’t noticed, and First Defence WILL stop you from getting a cold. If you’re not convinced it just means you are using it wrong.
So when you feel like there’s a tickle of a cold coming on don’t just take a squirt and then surrender to the inevitability of a honking streamer – you’ve got to bang it up there like it’s 2005: every 3 hours for the rest of the day. Just don’t stop until you feel it retreating. Take some ibuprofen to keep your spirits up.
I know it’s not nice. I know it trickles down the back of your throat yuckily and makes you feel a bit ill but it’s better than another bloody cold.
October 16, 2015 at 9:09 am
I think I first found out about First Defence from Recipe Rifle and am now a religious user! I have about five bottles around the place I’ve had to pick up in an emergency (particularly at the airport). God forbid anyone tells me they’re coming down with a cold – I’ll just bark at them to get a bottle NOW AND START USING IT NOW THERE’S NO TIME TO WASTE.
October 16, 2015 at 10:03 am
aha! a convert. nice to have you in the flock, my child..
October 16, 2015 at 12:12 pm
Excellent advice, just wish I’d known it a couple of days ago! (She writes from her sickbed, coughing like a seal, snogging a hot toddy and feeling very pathetic and sorry for herself…) Will be buying fifty bottle of this if I don’t die before I get the chance…
October 19, 2015 at 11:11 am
I’m a wuss at taking this myself, but my husband is quite good and never seems to catch a cold.
Recently, my children came down with some filthy plague and I had the pleasure of sleeping with the youngest as she coughed directly into my face all night. Now, there was only one way this could end, and I didn’t have time nor the inclination to catch this dreaded lurgy myself, so I happened upon a packet of probiotics lurking in the cupboard. I usually save these for December, when the good lords decides to bestow his annual chest infection upon me, but these beasties (all ten billion them) are up for the fight, and I have graced the Christmas table for the last two years without coughing over my turkey. Anyhoo, I am pleased to say having gone two whole weeks now without as much as a sandpapered throat or a mild fever, the probiotics have one the war yet again. They’re probably 8 x the price of your First defence, but ya know. I’m worth it!
October 19, 2015 at 11:46 am
what ARE these probiotics?!? there is no amount I won’t spend to stave off illness
October 19, 2015 at 12:04 pm
They’re like those Yakult drinks except that stuff is crap and has something like 5million bacteria which apparently starts decreasing once manufactured. Instead these are in capsule form and start at 10 billion per capsule ( you get heavier duty ones, but this was what I found on the shelf at Boots). They’re about 20 quid for a months supply, but you can spend more. Whatevers. They work!!! People swear by them. *I* now swear by them!!!
October 19, 2015 at 3:27 pm
I love this