Go now. Turn the light off and go to sleep.

I've found it's the only cure.

I sometimes get bad headaches (nothing like migraine) and switching yourself off and lying down for as long as your weekday routine will allow is the best and only thing.

Get well soon.

EDIT: Oh! You're off out tonight. Well, as your GP, I'd say you're buggered.

and Crabbies Green Ginger Wine. Guaranteed.

an old woman with a beaked nose and a broomstick:

Take...

3 egg yolks
crushed sunflowers
a lump of coal (diced)
seven drops of your own blood
an Oxo cube
essence of hamster scrotum
half a pint of Jack Daniel's
two rat hairs
A good dollop of Hellman's Light mayonaise

Place the ingredients in a cauldron (or if you don't have that, a large saucepan will do), simmer gently over an open fire, wait for five hours and pour the heated mixture into an iron goblet through a sieve. Drink quickly. You'll feel like a new man within minutes...

In answer to your wife's "get on with it you wimp" remind her that its not just a cold, its a Man Cold.....

and two Beechams Powders

Go to Bed and Sweat.

Works for me

I've had a "man cold" for two weeks now and still little improvement. In fact I think I have caught two separate colds back to back from my daughters nursery - little sods!

The best cure is usually a Chicken Jalfrezi and three pints of stells normally, followed by a good nights sleep, but these days even that doesn't work!

So drink plenty of water, take paracetamol, sleep as much as possible and wait for your body to win the battle.

IMHO, all over-the-counter remedies provide relief from the symptoms in exchange for an extended duration of your misery i.e. you might feel a bit better but the cold lasts longer. Let the bastard out - it will anyway.

Make aome honey and lemon, add a good measure of corner-shop scotch (this is'nt something to use the good malt for) and take with two paracetemol. You should sleep like a top, and although you'll probably still wake up with the cold you'll feel a lot better for a good night's sleep.

Jagermeister - its herbal properties will clear your chest - and failing that you'll be too out of it to care!

...and Beecham's capsules

No one's indispensable

Skip work tomorrow, cower under duvet in front of TV watching the sort of film there is never enough time for,particularly if women are loitering - for example , all 3 hours of Patton;Lust for Glory. I did that once - best advert ever for having a cold

Open a bottle of beer, place in a pot of boiling water until beer begins to stir. Drink hot, go to bed , wrap up warm and sleep the sleep of the dead.Works like a treat

surely a medal of some sort is on it's way for heroism of this magnitude. Football training was a disaster, twelve 14 year olds and a grumpy old bastard with a cold as coach does not harmony make.
I am looking forward to finding the best combination of all the above this evening. Maybe a Jagermeister / Jalfrezi combo. Thanks all!