Dear Throat,
Please do me a favour and stop hurting. And tell your friends the sneezes to stop lurking at the back of my nose waiting to come out as well. I don’t have time to be ill this week. I have deadlines you know. And we’re having a party to celebrate the boyfriend’s birthday on Saturday. There are going to be pancakes! I shall be most upset if you cause me to have to cancel pancakes! The party cannot be postponed as I have a seminar the following week.
I am now going to drink some Lemsip and get an incredibly early night. By the time I wake up in the morning I expect you to be at least almost gone, understood?
Yours, Beverley
Confuzzledom 
I hope your throat cooperates. Being on the tail end of a similar-sounding illness myself, you have all my sympathies, Get well soon!
NOTHING should have the gull to cancel pancakes!!!!
PANCAKES!!!!
p.s.
happiest of birthdays to Jan!
Sending healing energy your way, friend!
Cold/flus/time of the month have the worst timing, don’t they?
Get well soon! Do they have Cold FX in Germany? That’s what I’ve been taking to fight sickness and it works pretty well!