Poorly sick in Beijing...

The weather is starting to change here....and I'm warned it will soon be colder than.....cold....

 

More people are wearing face masks - not because of the atomic smog clouds, but because everyone starts to get dreadful colds. Last week, a work chum was struck down, and it was inevitable I'd cop for it. I've already droned on about Douglas Bader in the office (to Chinese & Germans - not much response) and how he never missed a days work - and his work was fighting (Germans) at 10,000 feet to protect our freedom. Douglas never phoned in sick with a cold - and he had no legs!!!! I;ve used this as a motivational don't-you-dare-be-off-work-sick speech for years - people would com in half dead, rather than come to my office for a 'return to work' interview that would include the infamous 'Bader Speech'.

 

Anyway, I succumbed a few days ago, and not least because a lady in our department is 'expecting', they had a petition to say "go home" - I confess i feel like I've been trampled by a horse.

 

Last night, I was delirious...tossing and turning in bed, as opposed to tossing and turning in bed, and had a dream that there was a knock at the door. A good chum had called for a nurse, using a number he'd found in a pub toilet, and she certainly did comfort me. Nice girl, but forgetful - forget her underwear, for a start. She offered me a variety of 'alternative medication', none of which seemed to include medication of any sort. But, lying on my back, I did feel a lot better by the time she left. It's the thought that counts and she was eager to please.

 

On the basis I feel worse today, I'm wondering if she might come again tonight. And if I might....