Still plodding along. I want to write “through the gloom” but that would be gloomy. Better to say I am sure yesterday was the worst day (of this stupid cold – where is my raw milk?) and today will be better. The fire is roaring and the house is warm, even this early.
All food smells disgusting pobably because I cannot smell the whole of it, so I am drinking copious amounts of builders tea. 
But I will mention that the little weather fairy forecasters are whispering a little about sun for today. Sun would be good. 
I have had to avoid the pigs altogether, no scratches or cuddles with sheila, it is very easy for a pig to catch the flu from a human and the result can be disastrous. So I make sure to wear my gloves and only serve food from he barn. No home made from the kitchen until I lose this wheezy cough.
Good morning. I hope you have a lovely day.
Your friend on the farmy,
celi
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I’m so sorry your feeling poorly. Keep warm. Drink lots and lots…put a towel over your head and breath just boiled steamy water with two spoons of baking soda in it.
This will (in addition to the thyme remedy) absolutely help clear nasal passages and lungs. I’ve had troubles with Bronchial stuff and this has given me great relief. Please take
care.
You know .. I have never ever heard of that particular remedy and I don’t have to drive anywhere to find it as it is in my pantry.. I will try it tonight.. many thanks darling.. c
Take care and Happy Birthday! x
Good morning, and HB! I will mark the day on my Sheila Calendar (which arrived yesterday – joy!). Since that cat is out of the bag, I’m sure the rest of the Fellowship will be doing the same! I felt like a little kid reading his first “big kid” book yesterday – what – no pictures? haha! I hope you are feeling better soon. Please don’t let it settle into pneumonia. BTW – when do you need our entries for Letters to My Baby Girl? I don’t want to miss the deadline – unless I have already. Oh my.
No you have not missed the deadline.. I said the end of december, then I will begin the collating across january.. I need to do quite a bit or writing for it too, this one has a slightly dfferent format.. c
Feel better Celi and oh no, is today your birthday?! Happy Birthday Doll, plan something festive for healthier times. You are the only person I know who can make having the flu seem so cozy and charming. I got my Sheila Calendar! I don’t want to look inside so I’m surprised. Can’t wait for January.
xoxox
I’m sooo sorry you’re still feeling lousy. The sun is out here in Chicago…it’s just got to find its way south pronto. Some burthday!! Not many women would be pleased with a file cabinet for a birthday gift, but you, Miss C, are no ordinary woman. There you are taking pains to protect Miss Sheila et al from catching whatever you’ve got. Just like Sun Dog said, I too learn something every day. Who knew how delicate pigs are?
I love the photo of Boo yawning so very much. It made me laugh out loud. He has–like Jackie Gleason in “The Honeymooners” –A BIG MOUTH! He’s wishing you an HB! Me too.
This is my second email. Just wondering what TonTon is thinking.
feel better soon!!!
Feeling sick is the pits, especially if you’re not usually. A filing cabinet’s a wonderful birthday gift, I told my kids for years I wanted a wheelbarrow but they scoffed at me and bought me smelly bath stuff instead. Feel better soon, and maybe feel just a tiny bit of birthday excitement.. And enjoy watching those naughty kitties climb all over your furniture…….
My parcel arrived yesterday 🙂 I love the calendar and T shirt, thank you so much. I’m still down with flu as well so you have my full sympathy. Happy Birthday.
I hadn’t considered that you’d be contagious to the pigs… oh no… it’s bad enough in humans, that’s why you/we haven’t felt this bad in years. The G.O. managed to not catch it off me, so it’s possible to keep it to yourself once you know you’ve got the lurgy. I hope your day and your birthday is at least passable. Yep, food is blah but drink as much as you can of anything, any kind of tea helps 🙂
Happy un-birthday to you Cinders! I hope you feel better very soon! Why don’t you put a glug or 2 of your favorite spirit in that hot lemon water and then you won’t even care if you’re sick! 😉
Dear Celi sore throats are caused by a lack of Vit B complex – we can’t store Vit B so have to keep it topped up.. stress uses it up…. If you can get some Vit B complex, you could take four straight away with food, and then three night and monring with food for three weeks. After that two daily indefinitely through the winter as a preventive.
If ever I feel a throat coming on, I get stuck into the Vit B,and haven’t had a cold,/ flu in years… a couple of Vit and mineral pills daily through the winter also helps
Yes the vitamon B’s are rather a complex collection..and you are right vitamins need to be present in your diet daily as you cannot store them, with the vit B’s if you take too much of it,it will actually decrease how much you can absorb, tricky vitamin. But easy to find in a normal fresh diet thankfully. I so seldom have a cold and am well on the way to recovery today.. thankfully. thank you valerie, I hope all is well .. c
Gorgeous pics Celi. Just love the one of the cats – lovely. Sorry to hear that you aren’t feeling well ..
Oh dear – wish I could send you a big pot of chicken soup. Love that shot of Boo yawning!
Yes, I’ll agree with ‘Anonymous’ and wish you an improving un-Birthday also. [With big hugs] Have to celebrate twice as hard when all signs of the lurgy gone!! Did that misery have to land on your doorstep just now!!!!! About raw milk: took up half the news on all our stations last night. It seems it has been sold in most of our health stores as ‘Bath Milk’ with a warning it could be dangerous. Well, one batch unfortunately was and four children died. Real shock-horror over the country and methinks one really will only be able to get it straight from friendly farms from now. Remember drinking it as a child back in Europe with no problems at all . . . Oh, here had long lectures on Louis Pasteur also . . . 🙂 ! Take care, Miss C !!!!
I would never buy it in a store, that makes no sense, unless you see the milk man bringing it down the road.. goodness.. Bath milk! c
Yes, one does wonder whom they were trying to fool!! Looked ridiculous : big ‘Bath Milk’ a la Cleopatra sign in fancy script on top and half a page of print about what it really was and how good for you on the rest of the 2 litre bottle. Big fridges full in a number of stores – so there must have been buyers wanting it in the ‘raw’ form!! And honestly, half the people interviewed did not know the difference!!! Milk supposedly was milk!!!! . . . hope you have a better night and can sleep . .
Raw milk in AUS only can be legally sold as bath milk……since the 1940s! If you order raw milk you can collect on the day it arrives. I’ve never had a problem; I always make fermented products with mine. Hope your feeling better soon. C You obviously need some leek and chickpea soup.