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[Ann]

Why is it that I (and OH) ALWAYS get a cold just before Christmas - the busiest time of the year, when you are going out and want to look your best! OH is sneezing for England all over me and he was snoring like a pneumatic drill last night keeping me awake - GRRRRRRRR

[boxtops]

There's a lot of it about, Ann - and the changing temperatures don't help!

[ttfn]

I thought those drills sounded more like BRRRRRRRRRRRRR?

[jno]

maybe you're going out and doing Christmas shopping among bigger crowds than you'd normally see... more people to get infected by, and it's the time of the year for colds. Can you sleep apart from OH if only one of you has it?

[Ann]

Do you know boxtops, I have been SO careful, avoiding anyone with germs (!) and using hand gel every time I have been in town or pushed a supermarket trolley (aren't they disgusting carriers of germs? - I actually saw a man sneeze and wipe his hand across his nose then carry on pushing his trolley - I nearly heaved!)

[jno]

they may have germs even if they aren't sneezing all over you - isn't the most infectious time before you even know you've got it?

Do like polar bears do and hibernate under the ice (just don't get hungry and eat your babies)

[askyourgran]

I sympathise Ann there is always something cropping up just when you are in the middle of the Christmas preparations. I've lost a filling out of my tooth there is a large hole in my tooth and the edge is jagged, not painful, but my tongue is sore with the rough tooth. I have to see the dentist tomorrow (hate dentists) but we are going out for Christmas Dinner and then going away for a couple of days before New Years Eve. Just my luck for the tooth to start aching or breaking off. What timing.

[ummmm]

Maybe you're killing too many germs.

I've never had a cold and I don't use hand gel after touching things...

[Ann]

It WAS a strange snoring sound ttfn - he obviously couldn't breathe and it was a low vibrating sound which shook the bed - fed up me went downstairs and sat in the chair! No we don't have another room furnished as a bedroom - its a storeroom which is a posh way of saying a junk hole!!

[Ann]

Askyourgran - poor you, I hate dentists too - I broke a tooth last Boxing Day on a piece of nutshell and had to wait until they opened after New Year, and it nearly ripped my tongue to shreds ...

[owdhamer]

Sounds like a lack of sympathy here

[Ann]

I don't have any sympathy with "manflu!" ha ha - good excuse to get out of the christmas shopping!

[HowardKennitby]

It's called progress. Double glazing, central heating etc plus the lack of sunshine, reduced temperature causing people to spend more time indoors sharing bugs.

[owdhamer]

Like i said

[Ann]

Ha got you there Howard - we don't have central heating, must be the only house on our estate not to have it installed!

[Ann]

but as you can see from my avatar I do live in a stable .......

[Caran]

OH Has got a cold, his are legendary, we get coach trips to see the amount of used tissues he generates, at least 1 carrier bag stuffed full a day, he sighs for England, and his snoring has to be heard. still wouldn't be without him.

[Ann]

Sounds just like mine Car - are they twins?

[Caran]

probably identical!

[rowanwitch]

My christmas cold has also arrived ... oh well shopping is pretty much done now so can curl up with lemsips and a good book might as weoll suffer in comfort

[NOX]

I'd tend to agree with Ummm- you've slaughtered your immune system with the hand gels etc- germs are good to some degree they bolster your natural immunity to things- niether I nor my family are prone to 'catching' things mainly because I think we look after our immune systems by not being germ paranoid.