Having a cold is awful
I know this is the most obvious title of a blog post ever, but I believe it needs saying. Having a cold is awful... there you go I said it again. Not only do you feel horrific- I can hardly breathe and my nose is as blocked as a u-bend after a certain character from Austin Powers has done his business, without the smell I hasten to add... see what I did there...- but you have to constantly react to people reliably informing me of the need to 'do a covid test... you know... just in case...'. Dear friend, even though I have done five or six covid tests over the past few days (all negative), I do actually know what a cold feels like having had a multitude of them over the past 37 years of my life. I can can attest that... THIS IS A COLD! Newsflash- there are actually other illnesses apart from covid! Yes covid has flu like symptoms, yes it feels a bit like a cold... yada yada I get it... but I know a cold when I see one. It is the exact same cold I suffer from every year. Every...