Illness seems to have a good hold of us this winter. We have just been struck down again. This time at least, El Rubio was not in the firing line, and neither was I.

El Hombre got sinusitis, i think its called, and it got really bad in the weekend. He could hardly move around for the pain in his head and behind his eyes. Having not had this before, it took a bit before we figured that it was the sinuses which were the culprits.

I decided to get out of the house with El Rubio as much as I could, as I am sure that the high-pitched shrieking, screaming and yelling of a child just over a year old is not what you need when your head is about to explode.

We went to see some of our other foreign friends in the village, and it endd up being a rather productive trip. As I moaned about El Hombre being ill again, it seemed that these sinus problems are rather common and everybody had a bit of a boots pharmacy going on at home. So I came back with the loot which included: Those drops you put in boiling water to inhale (cannot for the life of me remember what they are called right now), vapour rub, decongestion and painkiller tablets, and some other tablets. And they really did the trick! He is feeling much better, as the headache is more of a normal headache and not this crippling pain.

I think we need to stock up in Boots next time we are home in the UK. Sounds silly as you can get a lot of good products here in Spain, but there is something about using products you know well and have always used. Old habits die hard I guess.