Evidence that Fran has been single-handedly supporting the cough sweet industry for a fortnight
'Do you know the little rhyme about coughing?' I asked a sixth former at school on Thursday. We were discussing the problems associated with having a cough. I've had a hacking, violent one for two weeks now, one of those in which your insides make a strong bid to become your outsides. This is fine if you're at home and can bend over double in your own kitchen, but not in front of a class of 25 teenagers watching you cough and hack like a tuberculous hag throughout an explanation of the difference between a dash and a hyphen. 'So, you see [cough cough cough], whereas a dash is punctuation and can be used to [hack hack hack] separate clauses in a sentence do excuse me while I open this cough sweet [cough cough cough], a hyphen is used to create [desperate, panicked sucking on cough sweet] compound words [hack hack hack inhale sweet].' No pupil wants you to come to their desk to help with their punctuation exercises, either, when it's like having a eucalypt...