Miracle cure

Fancy the idea of staying in and saving money after shelling out all that cash?

Can't face the thought of going back to a mountain of work?

Feeling bloated after the excesses of the festive period?

Then you should try the fashionable new miracle cure for the post-Christmas blues: flu.

* Side effects may include spending inordinate amounts of cash on nasty powders, the mountain of work awaiting your return getting ever more Everestine and feeling like you're going to die.

Yes, I finally crawled out of my death bed to work this morning for the first time in 2009. A fine start to the year...