Another great night at the Royal last night - 10 years on now and still they turn up in significant numbers to get their share of both active and passive music; since the smoking ban the pub has enjoyed income from an increasing number of folk who previously wouldn't go near for fear of "the poisonous fog".

It's understandable that those who find the taste so sweet can't understand why the rest of us find it so unbelievably vile. Life really is so much sweeter now - though I feel cheated out of all those wasted years of pointless pontification.