nikkimax

Ok getting worried now boys...........!

Happy to say W**F that I can answer all 3 questions in the last line in the affirmative. Have already bagged myself a husband however and sadly like the UK they frown upon polygamy here too. Whilst I don't want to cast aspersions on my fellow Aussies - I am a bona fide Australian with a passport to prove it - I do happen to have a UK one nestling beside it. Born and bred in Edinburgh as a matter of fact. I am amazed at your description of Melbourne Grove, it's as if you describe the very place I live in, my very street perchance? With the exception of course of the Fosters deck chair. You generally wouldn't even have one if it were free such is the Aussie dislike for the stuff. Never been to East Dulwich............

Yep thanks Huguenot, it actually feels longer than that in the plane! - doing the trip twice in the next 6 weeks. Now there's a good way to catch more lurgi's!

I have been searching the internet trying to find an answer to this very question, hence came across your discussion. I'm not exactly in East Dulwich, Melbourne Australia actually. I have to say thanks to the Minkey - I have been labouring under a fluctuating but generally just sub 40 degree temp for a couple of days, (monitoring my temp often to make sure it's not > 40) there is a dreadful lurgy going on over here too and it's Autumn and hot. I have been trying not to take paracetomol to lower the temp, except at night to help me sleep, having heard before about fevers being the body's best defense mechanism. The Minkey's answer is exactly what I have been trying to find out. Feeling better today so think I may have cracked it! Could of course just have been coincidence and the fever had run it's course but it worked for me. Hope you are feeling better Brum.