Colds.

Having escaped the virus storm that swept the village around christmas and new year, I now seem to have aquired a cold. This one seems to be one of those that involves a lot of coughing, not good for nocturnal peace either for the sufferer, or for those in the vicinity. Hopefully, this peice of unpleasentness will be of short duration unlike the cough that I developed last spring that lasted about a month.

The only thing to do is to drink plenty of fluids, some of which may will consist of Famous Grouse.

Nothing else for it.