The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

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In five or ten years, the way I was going, it was clear to me that I’d have had to stop drinking completely or face some pretty dire consequences with my innards. I've raced off to games hours early to give me a chance to drink a lot of beer in a relatively short time.

It really did give me food for thought – in a good way – and I have been waxing lyrical to friends (over drinks! I manage to run a successful business and a family of four, so I can’t be doing that much damage to myself. There is plenty of talk of boozing sessions over the years, but this is balanced by reflections on how much of this was actually enjoyable or necessary. And then I’d get into another conversation, which I’d bring to an end by saying I needed to go to the toilet.

I rarely vomit from alcohol consumption (and last time I did, I’m sure there was something wrong with the coffee beans in the espresso martinis, it wasn’t the volume of booze! I wouldn’t be disowned, and I’d still be in touch with my friends and have good times with them, but it would be different. If I lined up all the drinks I’d drunk in a forty-year drinking career, stretching back to my mid-teens, that line would be around three miles long.I can freely admit that both of us drink far more than the recommended limits – and definitely when on holiday would be up at a level similar to Adrian’s historic levels.