Recently I took a trip back to see family and friends in my home town of Bournemouth and had arranged to go out with an old friend for drinks in the evening. He has been down on his luck for a while, so I felt obligated to ensure that we rolled back the years and painted the town red, ideally not with vomit, for old time’s sake. I would have been happy just to down a couple of pints in a local pub, reminiscing about our youth, but my friend was determined to let his hair down, so when he asked where I would like to go, I just said “Anywhere mate.” Now, considering that this was the same friend who, on a recent visit to see me in London, had persuaded me to go to a dodgy hard house club, in which we were mistaken for undercover drugs squad officers by paranoid wide-eyed pillheads, in hindsight I realise that I possibly should have given some guidelines as to what was acceptable.

Bournemouth has a good nightlife, with many bars and clubs full of glamourous girls for us to stare at from the bar, drooling into our pints chat to and impress with our wit and intelligence. Continue reading →