I did the last few days of Ocsober and then extended it for as long as I could. Which turned out to be 5 days. Quite a feat around these parts! And as a result of my abstinence, I was rewarded with a weeks worth of the worst nights sleep ever and towards the end of it I started getting sick. You know the blocked ears, itchy throat and sore sinuss. (sinuses?) The plural of sinus.
Then the day of my 20 year school reunion arrived and I had succumbed to my illness well and truly. I flagged my condition with my friend Mrs Finlay via text message and promptly got the following back