In answer to your question Tele, I saw this site which said that the number of people affected by bugs such as Norovirus is statistically no different from recent years- maybe they're all bad!

I go along with Arky on the flu bit. I don't know what hit you. I can only say that if one really gets the flu then that person is capable of pretty much nothing.

I'm over fifty, and I got it once when I was about twenty. Blinkin heck- was I delerious!

GPs talk about the £10 test to differentiate between a cold and flu.

A £10 note is dropped on the floor. If you can pick it up you have a cold.

That all said, a number of people I know have not been well, and best wishes to you.