Monday, 1 August 2011

Circumventing the Mood.

I think I’ll have a scotch or two.
No - more than that I think.
I’ll have a lot
And play the sot
Then throw up in the sink.

The last time I threw up in a sink was in... er ... Never mind. 

I remember it was the night I learned that Hayley Mills and her husband were staying in the same hotel in Birmingham. Or was it Coventry? I was just a kid then and shouldn’t really have had that much to drink. I hadn’t developed the capacity. So should the development of ‘the capacity’ be a skill of which to be proud? Well, if you have good reason to suspect your male ancestors were Irish...

This post is a displacement device – and I’ve already had the first of the scotches and started the second! Not bad, eh?

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