Musician finds cure for common cold
Hopefully.
Thank you everyone for your advice - as you can see, I’ve taken it all on board. Apart from the whisky and cloves bit (Rachel).
I left my room after 24 hours house arrest to go and buy all of the above; and to have lunch downstairs (baked salmon with salad, followed by fruit, since you ask). As I told someone the other day, I never, but never, lose my appetite. No matter what’s happened to me - I could have fallen sick/had my heart broken/survived a nuclear holocaust - there’s one thing that’s guaranteed. Through it all, I’ll be able to eat like a horse*.
M, the hotel manager, called me yesterday to ask how I was and to see if there was anything he could do. Bless him. I really am so lucky to work for a place which treats me so well.
M also told me that when he used to work at the Savoy, Pavarotti would sometimes come to stay (the Savoy being his London hotel of choice). Apparently, Pavarotti requested on room service five - count ‘em! - litres of freshly squeezed orange juice every day. Five litres a day! No wonder he got fat - all that fructose! M used to squeeze his oranges, too (missus) - he said they were even imported from Sicily. Fancy.
And speaking of health food - I read this story in the paper over lunch:
The young lad above just scored the highest number of top grades in his SPM exams (Malaysian ‘A’ levels). He got 1As in 21 subjects (including Higher Arabic Language and Accountancy) and told the paper that he only studied when he felt like it. Adding: “Of course, you have to consistently ‘feel like it’. I studied every day.”
And the other secret of his success (apart from an unfeasibly large brain)? “I also did a lot of hajat prayers**, watched my diet and took the advice of my headmaster to consume a lot of dates, honey and milk.”
So there you go: this post has not only brought you the cure for the common cold, but also the secrets of a diet guaranteed to win you a place on University Challenge. Hurrah for me!
Now, back to looking pitifully out of the window at the sunshine…
*ie. with a big nose bag around my face.
**Explanation of a hajat prayer - albeit in a slightly Hitchhikers’ Guide to The Galaxy form - is here.
March 13th, 2008 at 9.30pm
Have you survived a nuclear holocaust then?
March 13th, 2008 at 9.59pm
weeeell… strictly speaking… no.
but if I did, the first thing I’d be doing would be finding something to eat.
March 14th, 2008 at 12.36am
ha! good luck with that.
March 14th, 2008 at 2.28am
Well there would be minimal risk of contamination, since everything would have been irradiated! Of course, you would beep a lot when passing Geiger counters…
March 14th, 2008 at 2.52am
An ex of mine was a chef at The Savoy, I won’t tell you exactly what they did to the food that people sent back to the kitchens with a complaint, but it was sent back out having being ‘fixed’ so the customer would REALLY enjoy it the second time around.
March 14th, 2008 at 3.29pm
*Andrea gives wide-eyed stare*
March 14th, 2008 at 7.23pm
“Plastic wrapping???!!!???!!!??? How do you know what you get isn’t all plastic..packaging..why?? Designed to go off unnaturally quick..x
March 14th, 2008 at 7.51pm
Jools - I know, I know. believe me, I had no choice at le supermarche.
October 18th, 2009 at 8.22pm
the best thing to do to avoid getting Common cold is to keep your immune system at optimum level by taking lots of vitamin-c and also avoiding stress.
May 1st, 2010 at 4.41pm
The usual remedy for common cold is just lots of water, fruit juice and also vitamin-C tablets.“-
May 1st, 2010 at 9.06pm
The usual remedy for common cold is just lots of water, fruit juice and also vitamin-C tablets.-`’
August 13th, 2010 at 2.27am
you can actually shorten the symptoms of common cold by taking lots of vitamin-c,`’
October 1st, 2010 at 7.22pm
Common cold can give me fevers sometimes and it last 3 days-’`
October 19th, 2010 at 1.57am
common cold is easy to combat, just take lots of vitamin-C and antioxidants-”‘
November 8th, 2010 at 7.29pm
common cold is really hard to prevent becaue the virus always mutate “
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