Opinion

When happy hour winds up: surviving the post-lockdown detox

By Mark Thomas
May 17 2020 - 4:30am
We'll soon be allowed back in the pub - but this might actually mean less drinking for some of us. Picture: Shutterstock
We'll soon be allowed back in the pub - but this might actually mean less drinking for some of us. Picture: Shutterstock

For months at a time, the only alcohol which passes my lips takes the form of Christmas cake or Communion wine. I wish that bouts of abstinence had made me wise, but that is not to be. I still grow old, I remain clumsy, sometimes forget names and cannot be trusted up a ladder. During these spells, while other people seem a bit more tedious, I bore myself silly and put myself to bed early.

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