Mmm. A succession of nights out with a handy ‘bucket’; or a succession of days in without food. Neither appeals much to someone whose idea of a big time is shared by Calvin’s dad.

I’m not sure he would have considered diving through flaming hoops ‘character building’, either!

I’m glad you found Ankor Wat ‘suitably impressive’. I feel the same about Chichester Cathedral, which you may have noticed on occasion, going to and fro about the town.

I hope the stuff you filled your buckets with wasn’t like the cheap vodka that is killing people by the score in minor Russian towns and appears to have arrived in Britain:

“Drinkers have been warned to look out for illegal bottles of a vodka that could blind or kill. A bottle of Kremlin Vodka with sixteen times the recommended maximum amount of methanol was found on sale at a shop in Burnley, Lancs. Trading Standards officers fear it is available across the North West and urged consumers to contact them if they come across it. Methanol is a toxic chemical often used in bootleg liquor. Even moderate amounts can kill and initial effects may include drowsiness, inebriation. Delayed symptoms include blindness.”

I didn’t think ‘inebriation’ was unusual when drinking vodka, but blindness would be.