If you think I've been quiet lately, this is why

And it's not because I want to be

Dear Reader

Just a quick note to explain why you haven't had any Cider House videos and less output from me as of late.

The truth is, 2025 has gotten off to a rather clunking start for me!

With all the hope of going to inauguration in America, I ended up coming home with a level of flu that felled me for weeks.

So bad was that flu, which hospitalised friends of mine, I developed labyrinthitis which meant I then had extreme vertigo for 2 weeks. The vertigo still lingers today. (If you've never had it, believe me, it's grim. Like being a teenage drunk just stepping off 90s fairground waltzers day and night, relentlessly).

On top of that, as I was recovering from The Super Flu, I then caught RSV, a lovely new Chinese cold.

The two together led my body to go into crisis mode, which resulted in ms then getting Shingles. Which resulted in me ending up in A&E two days ago!

So basically, I've been really rather poorly with (what I hope is) a once in a lifetime sequence of pretty grim illness which has meant I've not been able to present much on Talk, and often don't really have the energy to do anything at all!

I am now on super antivirals and am trying to rest up so that I can end the conveyer belt of infection that has plagued me for 2 months now.

Please bear with me as I get back to fighting fitness - and thank you for your support!

Alex