Two days ago I developed a cold. It seemed to be a 24 hour variety cold, but it wasn't and this Saturday evening I feel like shit quite unwell, poorly if you like. I think medicinal brandy will help.
I can't concentrate enough to deal with photos, but I can still type.
Sister arrived and parked behind my car, so I had to move her car to get mine out. I pressed the start button and the instruments lit up but the engine didn't start. I looked around for something else to press, but there was nothing, whereas my car would display 'Press the brake and press start'. I turned it off and on again, no change. I pressed and held the button down, nothing. Hang on, this is a hybrid electric car. I'll just put it into reverse and see if it moves, and it did, silently.
Kosov resumed his driving lessons today after a break following his scrape of the car. I have had one quote for the repair of my car, which seemed outrageous, and I am awaiting another. I will see what this one comes in at and decide whether to buy a new car or not. Both he and Phyllis started from a very low base, but Kosov seems slower to pick up skills. We'll get there.
From a our sedate drive around Albert Park Lake, and a few parking manoeuvres, Phyllis took over and drove us to Port Melbourne where we three bought bahn mi. While I was hungry, I could only eat half and took the remainder home for later. I bought coffee while the pair shopped at the Reject shop and the supermarket.
As the afternoon progressed, everything and everyone started to annoy me. Jass is an ungrateful cow. Sister returned and put the kettle on. Please, don't stay longer than necessary. She didn't, and made tea to take home with her. Phyllis and Kosov, stop annoying me.
Phyllis had cooked lasagne and served mine up on a plate as he was going to travel with Kosov to work where they would separate and Phyllis go to a party with Kosov's workmates while Kosov worked. I could not eat a proper meal, as I am so unwell. So I had a couple of slices of ham, a tomato and half a leftover curried egg sandwich.
Phyllis called in sick for the party, as there were two people there he did not like. He said he would have gone if Kosov was with him. But then oddly he got out some wet food to feed to Jass and asked if I could feed her. Why? You will be here.
No, he went out soon after Kosov left. I know what gay men are like. I once was one, and I am very suspicious. I hope my suspicions are misplaced.
It is not my business and as much as I love them both, as soon as I met Phyllis I knew he was a person of the world and could look after himself. Not so much Kosov, and as I said to him in the past when Phyllis was back in India, I will always be there for you Kosov. Well, until I die, then he'll be on his own, in Australia at least. But his family are good and care about him.
If I don't post a Monday Mural, I am probably deaded by manflu.
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It's not manflu. I'm in week three of whatever the hell it is. Started off with a sore back. Coughing pulled a breast muscle that still twinges. Fever, chills, upset tummy. coughing, sneezing.
ReplyDeleteBut the husband claims he's sicker than me.
I raise a Lemsip to you. May you not run out of kleenex
Sounds like REAL flu to me, there are OTC medications that can help, though sleep and plenty of water is also essential.
DeleteI keep looking around when I am out and can't see anyone else with symptoms. I feel like I am the only one in the world, but clearly I am not.
DeleteI hope you get well soon! Calling Jass an ungrateful cow cracked me up. lol I, too, hope your suspicions of Phyllis are unfounded.
ReplyDeleteI expect at least a week until I am close to symptom free Darla. Thanks.
DeleteDarla, I hope I am being too suspicious about Phyllis.
DeleteGet some proper cold/flu medication instead of the brandy, drink lots of water and get plenty of sleep. Have you had your flu vaccination?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear you will continue to help Kosov if Phyllis isn't around. Is that likely to happen?Jass will be better when you feel better.
Water is good River. I can't take most cold/flu medications because of prescribed drugs I take. I have taken panadeine. I don't think Phyllis and Kosov will part in the near future. They are good friends as well as lovers and spend all the time together that they can. But it was suspicious behaviour on the part of Phyllis.
DeleteI have the flu vaccination in early May, along with Covid too.
DeleteTest for Covid, as it is doing the rounds again in Melbourne. Someone I know is in ICU now, with Covid then pneumonia. Last week I got a vaccination after not having had one for a few years.
ReplyDeleteI had already J, although thanks for the reminder that I need to buy more test kits. In May it will be one year since I had about my ninth Covid vaccination, and I will get one then, along with a 'flu shot.
DeleteI hope you feel better soon. There are some nasty bugs out there.
ReplyDeleteI can't remember who moved in first. Was it Kosov or Phyllis? I hope P doesn't do the wrong thing by K.
Phyllis first, Merlot. I hope Phyllis behaves himself too, but I also know what I was like at his age.
DeleteGet well soon - the sun might come out occasionally but it’s not warm enough to go out and about so rest up and enjoy a bit of quiet
ReplyDeleteCathy I did go out. By the afternoon I felt a bit better.
DeleteDrink plenty of water, get adequate rest and homemade chicken soup can help a lot! Or you can have anything with either garlic or onion, that is also very helpful. I wish you a speedy recovery.
ReplyDeleteLinda, chicken soup is also Phyllis' Indian cure, and he is making some for me as I type. Thank you.
Deleteoh no, poor you, I think it's the change of seasons going from Summer to Autumn, I tend to get hayfever and sinus infections.
ReplyDeleteAmy, I thought it may have been an allergy, but clearly it isn't. It is a common cold and nature will take its course.
DeleteSorry to see you so unwell and not liking the people around you. Jass says you are a grumpy old person. But with a bit of love and care and the right medicines you will get better soon. Take care.
ReplyDeleteThanks Thelma. While there is still a lot of nose flow, I do feel better than I did last night.
DeleteEntertaining post despite the lack of photos. Get well soon.
ReplyDeleteKirk, I do try to make my posts a bit entertaining, sometimes going too far for some, I know.
DeleteOh dear. Not the manflu! Since I am reading backwards, I already know that you survived. It was a narrow escape, sounds like.
DeleteAge does not speed up the healing process. You are allowed to feel sorry for yourself for a couple of days but after that you need to put a different face.
ReplyDeleteYes Mrs Fun60. This student will do as he is told.
DeleteLiquids and rest as my Mom used to say!
ReplyDeleteYour Mom was wise Bob. I am drinking wine and I rest frequently and often.
DeleteRest and take care of yourself.
ReplyDeleteGo to bed and stay there until you feel better!
ReplyDeleteSo Phyllis may be Phyllandering, huh?
ReplyDeleteI hope your cold subsides and you are back to your hale and hearty self very soon. All cats are ungrateful by nature.
May the manflu be mild enough you make it to Monday. Phyllis stepping out? I don't want to read that chapter about the renter boys. My neighbor says she had to get a lesson from the car dealer when she got her car to figure out all the electronics and what is where. I don't drive it, even when she wants me to, because I'd need to take some time to figure out what is where. My car is so old and simple.
ReplyDeleteThere seems to be a bad flu going around here too.
ReplyDeleteI hope Phyllis doesn't hurt Kosov, Andrew.
Oh I do hope that you get better soon - being unwell affects so much of our outlook (and inlook) doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteLots of beer to pee it out, as my sister used to say.
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