Not a cure for colds!


Well last night I went round to help celebrate a friends 40th birthday, I am not sure what was worse the fact he was forty or the fact that I am now old enough to have friends who are 40. Anyway as predictable these things revolve around alcohol, the fact that everyone brought a bottle for the guys ‘celebrating’ said two things a) he is a known drinker, b) all his friends are known for a drink or two or three!

When I arrived I was handed a beer and offered a margarita, which based on the amount of lemon and limes available seemed like a great way to fend of the cold that has been threatening to take over my body for a few days now. All that was missing from my daytime drink was the honey, so having one or two seemed like harmless fun and a great way to fortify my vitamin C further.

It was after the first four or was it five that I offered to make one and suddenly realised what I had done to myself, with a shot of tequila and cointreau. So mixing myself a final one for the road I look forward to the morning after the night before, when I have to head into the hills for an ML rope day.

I awoke with both a minor hangover and a mild dose of the flu, which made the day more interesting that it should normal be, fortunately the distance covered was minimal, and the day one In have done probably hundreds of times before!

So the moral of the story is whilst a margarita might have lemon and lime and offer a vitamin C boost, a large quantity of them are not a cure for colds! Hurray for Beechams cold and flu, that’s all I can say.

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