Crystal clear

I thought I'd shaken off the respitory tract infection I picked up last week but this has proven not to be the case. I woke up this morning with a worsened cough (possibly due to all the talking I did yesterday) and a blocked ear. 

I went to the chemists and got some menthol crystals to put in hot water and inhale. I may have overdone the first batch as it packed a powerful punch ! However I found the effect that the crystals made on cooling interesting.

Instead of going to my (other)bookgroup and country dancing, I have stayed in a worked on my Gaelic (I only have one more exercise to do before Thursday's tutorial), read and dozed. 

I also made some carrot, apple, ginger and lemon soup - this was inspired by HazelH (again it has to be said :-) ).