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Hello you're listening to Luke's English podcast. How are you? I hope that you're feeling a little bit better than me today because you might be able to tell from the sound of my voice that I am suffering from a bit of a cold today. That's right, I'm a bit under the weather, I'm

slightly off colour, but it's nothing to worry about, it's nothing too serious, it's just

a normal run-of-the-mill, bog-standard winter cold.

I've got a bit of a blocked-up, slightly runny nose,

slightly sore throat, a bit of a cough, slight headache, just the usual symptoms. But don't worry, I know

that you are worrying about me, of course, because you care about me so much. You're probably thinking,

Luke, why don't you just go to bed or just

lie down on the sofa and just sort of rest and make sure you get better well don't

worry folks because I've decided that in recording this episode I'm not going to push myself too harsh

push myself too harsh I mean I'm not going to push myself too hard

I'm going to take it fairly easy, okay? I'm looking after myself. And I also would say don't worry because I have just drunk a nice cup of lem sip, which is my preferred cold and flu remedy. lem-sip is a kind of medicine and it's in the form of a

kind of powder which comes in these paper sachets and you rip open the sache and you pour it into a mug and you pour hot water onto it and the powder sort of dissolves into the hot water and it creates this nice sort of warm drink and it contains parasitamol and it contains

decongestant.

Paracetamol of course is a painkiller and it also helps to reduce fever that you might have

if you've got a bit of a temperature and the decongestion is what helps to try and relieve

the congestion that you get in your nose. You can hear it there. I've got a bit

of congestion as I do this episode. So I've had my lem sip and that's already starting to make

me feel a bit better. So I'm nice and warm.

I've also got several layers of warm clothing on and wearing two nice thick woolen sweaters

and I've got a scarf around my neck and I've got the heating on the

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