Evening everyone. Firstly I want to say that one of my home remedies must of worked as i've managed to hold off the flu and feel much better today. How i've dodged hubbys germs i'll never know. Maybe its my caring bedside manner "put those dirty tissues straight in the bin, cover your mouth when you cough, get out of bed while I boil those sheets!"I've got through a whole bottle of antiseptic/antibacterial handwash and been dosing myself up with all my home remedies to. Burning teatree and lavendar in the oil burners, making honey and fresh lemon drinks and for the past 2 days i've lived on homemade soup full of fresh vegetables and vitamins. Whatever it was it seems to have worked! Yesterday I made a tomato and red pepper soup and added a few chilli flakes for heat. Todays soup was vegetable, this consisted of onions, carrots, parsnip, swede and potato. To this I added mixed herbs, sea salt and freshly ground pepper, a few chilli flakes, a pinch of smoked paprika and a good squirt of tomato puree. I gently fried the onion in a little olive oil just to sofdten then addes the other finely diced vegetables and gave a good stir, finally I added the spices and stirred around for a couple of minutes. Finally I addes about a pint and a half of boiling water and put on to simmer until all the vegetables were soft. I then blended it as this is how I like my soup but you could leave it chunky. I made spaghetti bolognese for everyone else as hubby has had little or no appetitie and he said he just fancied it.

I did venture out a couple of times today as hubby thought he felt well enough. So we went out ot the local garden centre but when we got there he didn't feel wekk enough to walk around and so we had to just sit and have a coffee. Never mind, it saved me spending! He felt quite poorly so I had to drive home. This is a rare occurance as he usually insists that he drives. He said he felt sick on the way home, not sure if it was his illness, the winding lanes or my driving!? Anyway he didn't feel up to calling into the petrol station to get fuel so that will have to wait until tomorrow. He is usually very fit and walks for 10/12 miles at a time with the dog at weekends but this afternoon he insisted on taking the dog to the fields in the car and then said he would sit in the car and watch while I took him for a quick walk. He did decide to get out and have a small walk but was shattered after walking halfway around the field. This flu is nasty and I feel really sorry for anyone who is suffering. I've downloaded a few free books onto my kindle tonight. I onlt ever get the free ones unless there is something that i'm absolutely desperate for. Today I managed to get a couple about frugal living so I will start reading them  tonight in bed. My life just gets more exciting by the day!!! Right then have a lovely day tomorrow friends and take care.

Jules x