Doctors in West London say that they have encountered the first case of 'Blog Flu'. In what is believed to the first case of its kind, the doctors are treating the symptoms of an illness that appears to make the infected party actually think that he (or she) is a blog.

"The patient is one of millions of ordinary 'bloggers' worldwide who have in recent years turned their attentions to the 'blogosphere' in the, some would say misguided, view that they have opinions or insights worth sharing with the outside world. It is believed that such people have merely been 'incubating' the virus."

"However in this case the 'blogger' appears to have gone one stage further and has taken his blog too much to heart. It seems that he cannot shake the urge to talk continually in 'blogspeak'. He always talks in the third person, even when addressing friends and family and takes a political line on everything from who is going to put the cat out to who will empty the bins to whose turn it is 'on top' in bed."

His girlfriend first noticed the problem when they were dining at 'Luigi's Restaurant' in Chiswick a week or so ago. "Over antipasti, he started going into detail about the candidates in the impending Norwich by-election and explained that the parliamentary contest is perceived to be a four-way fight between Labour, Tories, the Lib Dems and the Greens. As if this were not bad enough this 'briefing' continued through the next four hours until bedtime, when during love-making he was explaining to me that 'An ICM poll published today suggests that the Tories are set to overturn Labour's majority, taking 34% of the vote. This would overturn a 5459 majority won by the incumbent at the last election."

"I'm at my wits end!" she concluded. "Someone please help me."