Charles and I both had mild coughs on Monday evening. Yesterday morning I was a bit borderline as the cough was worse but went to work as I had a presentation to give. Felt fine while doing presentation, felt much worse as soon as it was over, left work a little early as a result. Charles apparently fine all day with J.

Yesterday evening I developed high temperature, shivering and all-over muscle aches along with the rest of the cold. The online assessment says hello flu, here is an antiviral code for you. I will send Tony or Jonny for them today.

Charles coughed a bit last night and then spent most of the night feeding. Now he is full of beans with very mild cold symptoms. Meanwhile I still ache all over, plus the rest but the temp has dropped a little. Ironically Charles is due a flu jab next week because his heart murmur makes him "high risk" for catching flu. When I can cope with phone calls again I may ring up and check whether we should postpone/cancel.

Everyone else in the house is fine and we are following basic hygiene precautions to keep it that way. Half the family are visiting this weekend; as long as Tony and Charles don't succumb I think it's not worth cancelling, but I will have to be antisocial until I'm asymptomatic. It's not a completely disastrous time to be off work, but fairly inconvenient. Bah bah bah. I want my brain back; also to stop aching now please.