Knocked Out By Norovirus

Wednesday 26th March

Training's taken a back seat after some unscrupulous villain infected me with Norovirus, or Winter Vomiting Disease.

It's a new one to me, but according to BBC Health, Norovirus is the most common cause of gut infection in the UK, hitting over 60,000 people in England each year. Plans to run home as part of training had to take a back seat as did the idea of meeting a university friend from Leeds who's only in London for one night. Stomach feels like its in a wrangle, sleeping a lot. Bored myself to sleep listening to France-England on Radio Five Live and surfaced only to watch The Apprentice at nine.

The Apprentice: First episode of a new series. Interesting collection of 16 "High Achievers" this year, whittled down to 15 after trainee solicitor Nicholas de-Lacy Brown got the boot for selling whole lobsters at four pounds ninety each. Sir Alan Sugar sent his job-seekers to Islington's Chapel Market to flog 600 quids worth of fish and return with a profit. Unsurprisingly the market-goers snapped up the cheap lobsters, prompting the boys team to lose and Nicholas "Head of Pricing" de-Lacy Brown to get his marching orders. Shockingly all of the eight team members seemed to think £4.90 was the right price for a lobster. I wondered where they shop. Lobsters are about 15 quid each in Waitrose. At the Big Easy in Chelsea they have a lobster festival where half a lobster sets you back £15, and in J Sheeky, it's a hefty forty quid. The more cynical among us might speculate that these blunders are, at least in part, solely for the camera's benefit...

Ran: No where, for the second-straight day

Ate:
Porridge
Tuna sandwich
Half pack of cheese and onion crisps

Vommed: A lot

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7169347.stm