The Good Drinker: How I Learned to Love Drinking Less

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Reading Chiles' book mad me realise that my drinking story was remarkably similar to his own, and I guess many readers will feel the same.

Adrian Chiles sparks complaints with behaviour The One Show: Adrian Chiles sparks complaints with behaviour

After university, while waiting for his broken leg to heal from an amateur football incident, he applied for and failed both Civil Service exams, before being asked to apply for MI5 — he failed the second interview. He played "Edward Catflap", a coarse, drunken minder of light-entertainment nonentity "Richie Rich".Adrian’s story is quite something and many reading it, like me, won’t be drinking anything like the volumes he does. For the first time ever, I did what I now recommend everyone to do, which is to record how much you’re drinking.

In brief: The Good Drinker; The Blue Flames; Exit Stage Left

In 1991, Edmondson formed the Bum Notes, who were a jazz instrumental band and conceived exclusively to perform theme music for Bottom. Edmondson played Brad Majors in the 1990 West End run of The Rocky Horror Show, alongside Tim McInnerny as Frank-N-Furter and Ed Tudor-Pole as Riff-Raff. In November 2016, he fronted one-off documentary Whites v Blacks: How Football Changed a Nation for BBC Two. Highly relatable, which is Chiles's strong suit in general (apart from his seeming lack of appreciation for wine - he's mainly a beer man). Yet while the alcohol industry depends on a minority of problem drinkers, the majority really do enjoy in moderation.My chimp, absent-mindedly scratching its arse, opines that: “You haven’t really got anything wrong with you. The style is chatty and easy to read, with his alcohol journey split into decades, intertwined with advice he's received from others and his personal thoughts on moderation.