I can't believe it's so close! Of course at the rehearsal last night everyone was excited, and spluttering through the pre-concert head cold that we get the week before every concert, like clock-work... It doesn't matter because we'll still be awesome (and most of us are so used to it, we took precautions and are almost better).
There is always that new member who insists they never get sick :P
While most of us are spouting on about our water intake, and little secret remedies...
- Personally I do something really disgusting, I boil two cups of water with two whole cloves of garlic (squashed with the edge of a knife), a grated knob of ginger and the rind of a lemon and orange... I then strain that into a cup, add the juice of the fruits and a tablespoon of honey.
It clears your head! But you don't get to kiss any boys for about six months!
It kinda smells like honey chicken, and gives you a wicked craving for chinese food.
But I digress... So this one or sometimes two new member(s) spout their ever flourishing health, and we get to watch the slow descent as they deny the oncoming illness until it beats them into the ground.
This is mean I know, but we spend the whole time offering honey infused tea and echinacea supplements which are refused because they "are not sick".
So we reach one week out from the concert and they concede.
With a flurry of excuses between gulps of lemsip.
"I'm just so run down..."
*Gulp*
Of course we are prepared (because we want to sound good).
Fishermans friends? ... Those cough lozenges that burn the lining off your throat.
A handful before you walk on stage!
Beautiful clear singing voice until interval.
Another dose.
And hold yourself together in hope that the laxative-effect-warning is just for legal reasons.
No comments:
Post a Comment