Man flu

Hey everyone, hope all is good. Sorry I haven’t posted for a while, I’m recovering from a severe bout of man flu. It has brought to my attention that women are more stoical than men when it comes to illness. I’m sure to the average woman a bout of flu feels like a ‘heavy cold’, well, to a man it feels like life-threatening meningitis and consumption mixed together. I have been shivering, shaking, sweating and generally being pathetic for a whole week. We even had to cancel a Farrah show on Friday because I hadn’t recovered in time.

Health is one of those things we take for granted until it goes wrong. When I was subjected to the horrors of daytime TV for a whole week all I wanted to do was go outside. It was the London Marathon on Sunday and it reminded me there are at least 32000 people in the capital healthier than I am. I wish I could say that I spent the week writing songs but all I did was drink “EmergenC” moan gently and pray for a swift death. My friend Lisa came over and performed Reiki on me and strangely enough the next day I was 100 percent better. By this stage I would have happily tried leeches. Perhaps the Reiki worked or perhaps the virus decided to go and attack someone else. I don’t know.

Now I’m fully recovered, the band have been rehearsing non-stop for our tour of Japan (we leave on Monday). We’re really excited to be heading back over to the land where noodles are king and superheroes are fashioned out of plastic turnips. It’s a crazy country.

The two Japanese lessons I’ve had enable me to ask someone where they’re from and have no idea what their answer means. I can also buy something in a shop without resorting to pointing and waving yen. It’s not much but it’s a start.

I’ll hopefully put up a blog from Japan next week

Sayanora!

Jez