REPORTING FROM SICK BED - CHORLEY, LANCASHIRE :)
Hi All,
Well, what can I say??  Not a lot, it would seem as my voice seems to have all but vanished!
A couple of my colleagues have had such things recently, and it seems it's my turn.  I just about croaked my way through my TJC shift on Monday evening (minus the "oh yeah, wah wah wah wah" singing for The Deal of the Day) before I bowed out and lost most of what was left of my voice.  Thanks to the lovely team at TJC who looked after me, and have filled in around me as I sit at home under forced silence to try and recover.
Thanks for all of the lovely messages of concern - I'm absolutely fine (other than the being quiet bit) and taking up some of your ideas for remedies.  I'm gargling, dosing and inhaling everything under the sun to try and fix it ASAP.

In the meantime, I'm catching up on a lot of messages and bits that I haven't had time to do for ages (in between sleeping almost as much as Jacob, my cat at the moment).  Again, thanks for lovely e-mails, Facebook and twitter messages.  Much appreciated and I hope to be fighting fit again for next week.

Derek :)