Sick to the core (From Bradford Telegraph and Argus)

Sick to the core

9:47am Monday 22nd September 2008

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It’s never very pleasant feeling under the weather, and there comes a time when you just have to take a day or so off to let the worst of it pass.

Such was my fate this week when I simply had to give in to that man flu feeling and hunker down on the sofa for a day after a restless night in bed.

On the rare (honest) occasions that I get these attacks, I find myself reaching for the remote to see if daytime TV has improved any since the last time I tried it.

But, really, the worst thing about being ill at home is being tempted to watch excruciating breakfast TV. You should fight it at all costs.

If they’re not dredging up stories that appeared in the printed press a day or two previously, dressing it up as new and their own, they are repeating over and over again the same couple of ‘live’ news items, same video clips, same ‘jokes’ even in the belief, I suppose, that their audience moves on every few minutes as people flee the house for work, or the school run or whatever.

Most just flee the television, is my guess.

I realised it wasn’t doing my delicate health any good, and within very short measure I had switched it off in favour of the radio.

That has its foibles, but in the main it’s interesting and you can at least have it ‘in the background’ while you get on with other things… like snoozing or coughing like a madman.