Trying not to breathe on the sandwiches

Dear Dave,

Lewis was seven yesterday.

He was also dizzy, disoriented, tired and running a fever. This was a shame for the poor boy. He did cheer up somewhat, however, when he got to stay home and lie around playing his new computer games all day.

This morning, he's still off school but feeling much better. I, meanwhile, am feeling dizzy, disoriented and tired. It's possibly the start of whatever he has or perhaps it's simply the on-going symptoms of parenthood. Who can tell?

I'd quite like to lie around playing computer games all day. Instead, I've got to do the catering for a score of seven-year-olds who are turning up to a birthday party tomorrow.

Super.

Yours in a woman's world,

Ed.