The kindly radio ...

I'm sneezing - 

Longing for honey and lemon - 

Turning up the heating - 

Coughing as though I were in a clinic in Switzerland - 

I remember, while sneezing, my mum making me a chair bed - 

The house in Palmyra Road - 

The kindly radio - 

Mrs Nicholson bringing round Homes and Gardens - 

Their voices in the kitchen - 

The Radio Times promising The Man from U.N.C.L.E - 

My mum, later, stroking my hair - 

I'd wanted to be kept off school forever - 

Safe under the careful blankets - 

Blessed by gentle words -