Cold In Lockdown

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17 January 2021 at 15.56

Thunderthighs has been sneezing and blowing his nose all day and thinks it's grossly unfair that he has a cold when he wears his mask all the time.

We're at the dosing with lemsip phase.

I (shades of my mother) told him that if he insists on wearing nothing on his feet and only a 

t-shirt and jeans in the house, and often garden, then there's nothing I can do about it.  

"Put on some socks and that jumper I knitted you or the cardi."

Stocking feet would also deter Teddy from attacking him (Ted aka The Ginger Git) has a thing for bare feet and legs).

Mrs Quilt  Thunderthighs is at least of the age of expecting houses to be warm enough to wear the same garments every season.  Mr 3/4 of a Century should remember the fifties when we wore vests, long sleeved thick shirts and hand made Double Knit jumpers, (even Aran by the 1960s, although it was called "Baunin" then) in our houses with one fire lit at a time.

Woolerwoman  I have never been able to bear shoes indoors even back in 'the olden days' but every morning when I wake up with the heating already on, I say a few words of thanks to the almighty and remember when Jack Frost came to decorate inside the window most mornings until Easter.

Mind you, I was quite put out by having a cold a few weeks ago.  What with never getting near another person (chance would be a fine thing), wearing masks and rubbing sanitiser into all surfaces on me and everything else, I thought it should be impossible!

Bentonbag  I've put him to bed with a dose of buttercup syrup, a hotwaterbottle, Olbas oil sprinkled on his pillow, and Vic rubbed into his chest, back and the soles of his feet.  A little maldod goes a long a way with Thunderthighs.  He proceeded to have a sneezing fit which we lost count of.  Not sure if it was the Olbas or the dust shaken off his bedsocks.

The next morning

Bentonbag  He's up and done his paper round, but still has a sneezy runny nose. Fester went to bed early blaming Thunderthighs's bug, but more likely to do with spending too much time typing stuff into his lists of pits.

Mrs Quilt  Runny nose, heavy eyes and sneezes here!  Poor Thunderthighs and you.

Mrs Walker  I wore a mask whenever inside and still got Covid. Nothing I'd fair!

Mrs Walker  I mean nothing is fair.

For those without the language of the Lord “maldod” roughly translates as “cosseting” or "pampering".