I have a virus. I have the Sandman's virus so we shall be fighting for the facilities if he is still off school today. Hopefully it's not of the swinish variety but anyway it's so far showing no signs of being terminal, just achey, nauseating and unpleasant. My lungs have taken the opportunity to join in the general bodily malfunctioning of course, lazy pair that they are.

I do wonder how the authorities can say with such certainty just when the swine flu started to do the rounds in Mexico. Surely the health authorites there don't check out every case of 'flu looking for new permutations?