Along with the rest of London (and the nation, as far as I know) I have a cold. Sometimes a cold is just annoying, and other times it makes you feel like crapola. This is one of those. I'm lucky - I work from home, and work is light at the moment (code for: I'm unemployed, please help me) so yesterday I mainly slept and today I am sitting in bed tapping away on the Miracle Machine.
The dog is trying to steal the covers, which is entirely normal, and Herself pops in every few hours with aspirin/the paper/news of her travails. And sitting beside me is a 1 litre Volvic bottle filled with diluted Lemon Barley Water. I am channeling Roger Federer. It turns out that water with lemon-flavoured sugar-water in it is more interesting to drink than plain water. Who knew?
Lemon Barley Water is one of those drinks that Mums buy when you're poorly as a kid. Not 'ill'. When you're 'ill' you get Lucozade, strawberry jelly and a new book from the bookshop. 'Poorly' gets Lemon Barley Water and fishfingers and chips. It's all good. Anyway, in grown-up-land, where you have to do it all yourself, Lemon Barley Water proves its credentials as a purveyor of goodness. It's like summer in a glass, and on a cold March morning, when your head is a snot-geyser and all your joints creak like the Thriller video, it can really cheer you up.
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aw poor you. cold and schnuggles.
ReplyDeleteI prefer orange.
Matty likes Ribena.
Not so sure you shoudl ever be channeling Roger federer. He is Swiss.