The birthday cake

Last week when I took some shopping from the farmer's market round to the elderly man round the corner, he asked me if I would do him a favour. When I asked what it was, he said that it would be his birthday today if he stayed alive for that long, so could I make him a nice sponge with some strawberry jam and cream in the middle!
I had made a Victoria sponge a few weeks ago and took some round to him because he's always saying how much he misses his mother's cooking. She died over twenty years ago and she must have waited on him hand, foot and finger. He's never married and he hasn't been out since her funeral because I was told that he thinks he will die if he leaves the house. He would probably die of shock if he did anyway! He retired early and isn't short of money and he pays a personal carer who does his main shopping every week and also does a little cleaning for him.
Last year he had asked me if I could do his garden which is quite small so I planted some roses, lavender, perennial fuschias and some other perennials. There's just dead heading that needs doing so I go round on a Monday afternoon for a half hour or so to do this and also get his list of things he would like from the farmer's market.
Anyway, yesterday I made the sponge and when I got back from the shops today I put in the jam and cream filling and wrote him a birthday card then took them both round this afternoon.
He was really pleased and I told him that the cream would be OK until Friday if he kept the cake in the fridge. He said that it wouldn't last that long and he was looking forward to having some after his dinner tonight.
I know it will be alright but if there is anything that is different from his mother's cooking he will soon let me know, as he has done before if I've cooked anything and taken some round for him. I know I'm a very good cook and baker and he certainly won't get any better around here. All I have to do is to be very careful and make sure he doesn't take advantage of my good nature because he is very good at dropping hints, so I will have to make sure I exercise selective deafness and not become his unpaid helper!