Still coughing, but...

... amazingly, the acupuncture seems to have helped. Sticking a needle in my throat appears to have calmed the cough and the needle in the chest has stopped the asthmatic wheeze I now get when I have a cold ;-) *And* my energy levels are rising rapidly, allowing me to take a walk before spending a few hours driving around the countryside as well as preparing and serving a "proper" dinner, by which I mean preparing the contents of dinner from raw, cooking it and serving it as though at a restaurant! Suddenly, I'm beginning to enjoy cooking again; although I never really went off eating, cooking became anathema to me when I was feeling so ill last year. It was too tiring, it took too long and then there was all the clearing up. But now, I'm enjoying being creative in the kitchen once more. How things change in twelve months.