We just got back, and I'm waiting for someone to serve my breakfast! I'm going to use my new Italian cook book to fix Thanksgiving Dinner! Hope everyone made it home safe and sound, an Jim and Ana are enjoying their cruise

I must have caught a cold from someone on the airplane, but when you spend the night with 300 people you never know what you're going to get! I'm taking aspirin and drinking green tea with honey and lemon, and a little Jack in the PM. I still feel good enough to sort and label my pictures, though.

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must have caught a cold from someone on the airplane, but when you spend the night with 300

Friends of ours came home recently by air from Rome, and one was quite sick when she got home. It must be the air conditioning in the plane. Spreads to everyone.

Jenno, that air on planes recirculates so if someone in 20D has a cold or cough, it filters through to everyone else. Hard to control but one trick we've found is that because viruses flourish in a dry atmosphere we take a gel to put in our noses to keep the mucous membranes lubricated and it does help a lot.

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we take a gel to put in our noses to keep the mucous membranes lubricated and it does help a lot.

Well that is a new one to me Brenda. What type of gel would you get. My hubby seems to catch things on the plane.

The gel we use is called Secaris. We use it all winter because with central heating even with a humidifier our houses get very dry and we tend to get nosebleeds. Ask your pharmacist about it, Jenno.

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The gel we use is called Secaris

Thanks for that. I haven't heard of it, but will ask at our local chemist. When we were in the UK and Ireland we loved the double glazed windows. It made us quite comfortable, in fact in Ireland I felt too warm at night.