Saxon phrase of the day #4: man flu

For as long as there have been men and women, there have been differences between men and women, including differences in how they cope... It's likely that even the Anglo-Saxon woman, thirteen children round her feet, spend a good deal of time mopping the brow of her disease-ridden husband:

'He has man-flu' - He hafað mannadle [hay haf-ath man-ad-luh]