BBC has some stats on the flu cases. It was quite serious wasn't it? Luckily seems to have passed now.
The major difference between the 2025 flu season and the last three years is that the virus started spreading a few weeks earlier than normal.
When someone goes to their GP or hospital with flu-like symptoms, they can be swabbed and tested for influenza, Covid, RSV and other viruses.
UKHSA then records the percentage of those tests that come back positive for flu.
Figures had been rising quickly over the autumn and at the start of winter.
But last week the spread of the virus appears to have stabilised at a medium level, UKHSA says.
It is too early to say whether this marks the start of the peak. Flu is unpredictable, a lull can be followed by another surge.
Remember all those great covid death graphs I used to do 1? They were cheery days.
Day off today, lovely. Boys have gone to school, though we're not entirely clear if T1 needs to be there or not. He's allowed out at 10.30 for sure but the word is lots of boys just won't go in. He's going in to watch the annual pupils vs teachers football match. T2 has to be there until lunchtime, but they're having some sort of sugar based picnic. We're meeting them both at lunchtime, then OUT for fun.
We were talking about Extreme yesterday 2 and as it goes I saw Extreme exactly thirty-three years ago today, in 1992. Also this day The Prodigy in 1997, and Neds Atomic Dustbin in 1991.
Sunny and a moderate breeze, 6 - 12℃.
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