I seem to have had a cold forever. Something is going round at work and everyone is catching it, some people have had it for a month. I thought a walk by the sea may help (I already tried healthy food and drugs). When I was at uni I lived right by the sea. Even though we lived in damp, cold, mice infested student accommodation, where the heating was always broken and the walls were decorated with mould, I never got a cold or any other illness. I didn’t even used to get hangovers. So maybe being 18 contributed to this, but I like to think it was the sea air coming across 8000 miles of Atlantic Ocean freshness.

So I drove across the New Forest down to Highcliffe and walked along the sea front. It was freezing and raining, definitely what I think of as the British sea side in winter. Normally there are people surfing around here. The water was really calm though, so no hot surfer girls, just people walking their dogs.

On the way back I was passing through Lymington and remembered they had a really good fish and chip shop. So I stopped for an early tea. I don’t think fish & chip shops ever use newspaper wrapping any more, or even fake newspaper wrapping. They did have these cool paper bags though.

Sitting in the cold and rain, eating (90% fat) fish and chips. I think I may have found a cure to a cold.

• That fish looks grumpy like MK Olsen. Probably because it’s 90% fat.

  Comment by beav — November 28, 2005 @ 6:47 pm