Quintin Jardine's blog

. . . to all mis amigos who offered advice on how to sort out that annoying little bastard of a head cold and throat-tickling cough that’s been troubling me for the last few days. Remarkably every one of  those cures involved whisky. I do not drink whisky, and haven’t for the last 35 years, but it did make me think. So I took the cures minus the cratur, (they also involved lemon and honey) but did not drink any other form of alcohol either. Bingo! I had my first full night’s sleep of the week. I’ve still got the cold, but I can handle that. Main thing is it’s reminded me of something I knew but had ignored of late. While alcohol makes me sleep for a while, at my age it does not let me sleep well, and if I have any at all, I do not wake refreshed. So, it’s back on the Vichy Catalan for a while .