Happy New Year

I walked up to the bridge at dusk to get out of the house and took some pics of the motorway from the bridge. The best place to get the lights streaking would be directly over the carriageway but I decided that it would freak the drivers too much to see a lone dark figure hovering there. One of the legacies of 2011...

Our new year has been defined by the norovirus. We were due to have 10 people for dinner but 3 have been struck down by similar symptoms and I've had it too. I feel civilized enough to write this now but it has been no laughing matter for the last 2 days as I've popped Ibuprofin, Paracetamol, taken Rennies and slept non stop.

Four out of ten seems like a pretty high rate of infection bordering on biblical plague proportions. We've traced it back to all of us being together in Nandos a few nights back. We think it was airborn rather than the food.

I've read that Google can spot localised outbreaks just by analysing queries for flu etc.. It's amazing what you can find out - it's rife in Lanarkshire, I'll be fine by tomorrow but still infectious & oysters are a major culprit. At Nandos its chicken or nothing :)

So at 12, I yelled happy new year from the loo and then found some blackcurrant dilute to toast.

Happy New Year.