Food, infections, high temperatures, low work rates and clear blue skies...

Today is proving to be mercilessly hot.

I'm a bit like a big engine in that I don't respond well to heat.

I much prefer the cold. I start better that way.

That said, going for a jog last night was a major sweat-breaker.

Dad and me are having an out-door barbecue, with lots of dead animal flesh and dead plant matter.

However, there will be no beer for me. On the rare occasions I do get ill, I don't do it by halves.

I have a pretty nasty throat infection common to now extinct prehistoric animals .. or something.

The voracious collective of virii are happily working their merry way around much of my head, which is nice of them.

Not to be beaten, I will continue as usual until my otherwise impressive if at times diesel-like immune system gives them what for...