A Fluffy Pocket-ful of Cheer

After a week being trampled on by a horrid cold bug, Dash is finally back on the mend! :D Woohoo! Strange how when one is older, one takes correspondingly longer time to bounce back in the pink - An icky fact of life. Ah well.

But hey, now that Dash is back (with a megasaur pile of papers to write and emails to reply on a Sunday), even a sunny day like today here in Singapore seems fabulous! :D

What did Dash learnt during the past 7 days of under-the-weather:

1. The good old remedy of gargling regularly with salt water *really* alleviates the pain of a bad sore throat! Or at least because one is intently focussing on becoming a water fountain that one momentarily forgets about the grating pain at the back of the mouth.

2. And of course, if you have a spouse who is constantly bemused by your live rendition of a gurgling water fountain, you *must* stay on the act and not burst out laughing while gargling salt water - for salt water in the nasal passageway can be a rather ... no, cross that, make it an *extremely* salty experience.

3. When both spouses have been downtrodden by a cold bug, even the game of tickling takes too much effort. Better to wait till at least one spouse has adequate energy to give chase to the escaping other.

4. Headaches are a bane of life! ROAR! D: It makes one grumpy and less than delightful company. The only place for Dash with a megasaur headache is at home. Specifically on the couch watching some comedy on youtube such as Blackadder.

5. Rowan Atkinson is so much better an actor when he gets to speak! Blackadder I and Blackadder's Christmas Carol are simply a hoot - definitely cheers up one's downtrodden spirit when one is ill.