Eric is a single father struggling with the hassles of modern day life. He has to tidy his office for an important visit.

Eric is a single father who finds it hard to cope with the stresses of modern day life. He tries to get a pay rise.

A job interview awaits Eric, one that seems to represent his last chance of escaping the hell that is Data Dept. However, on his way to the interview Eric is involved in an accident and carted off to hospital...

Eric's severely allergic daughter Claire dreams of having a pony and going to the gymkhana, but finding her a pony is the easy bit.

Eric, disturbed by Maria, the au pair, and her boyfriend romping next door, thinks everyone is sexually active apart from him and plunges him into a stressful depression. A former girlfriend rings and his problems melt away.

Eric's son Brian has part as sheep number six in the school Nativity but he's never been on stage before, how will he react to the pressure.