We're not going to the zoo today

Today's planned trip to the zoo was cancelled due to headache, dehydration, nausea and fatigue. Our wonderful neighbours and I descended upon The Cambrige Blue's excellent Winter Beer Festival last night - my first visit to that pub, definitely not my last - followed by more beers and wine at home than was sensible.

The evening was lively, thanks largely to the walking hormone Brazillian guy we ended up sharing a table with and his long suffering missus. A genuinely nice chap, he came to the party laden with a cocktail of youth and alcohol, dragging us roughshod as the beers kicked in through religion, politics, a religion redux, xenophobic swipes, general insults and offensiveness and just one more bout of religion and obscenity for good measure.

Good God, was I like that when I was his age, just 8 short/long years ago? Far, far worse, probably.