OSCAR CAINER

DEAR Oscar, Why don’t you call? What did I do to deserve such an ungrateful son? Why can’t you be like your brother? He’s such a good boy… ...OK. This isn’t really a letter from my mum, who’s the artist behind the cartoons at

cainer.com that illustrate my ‘thoughts for the day’. But, this being her birthday, I thought I’d give her a cheeky challenge! Plus, we may all need a sense of humour following Mercury, the planet of mischief’s tricky minor aspects with serious Saturn and Pluto!