HUNG OVER

I woke up this morning with more than a bit of a hangover, due to last night's annual street dinner. The weather has been beautiful this weekend, sunny and 30 degrees. So it was wonderful to sit out in my neighbour's garden and be fed and watered. The only problem was that the amount of alcohol was generous, to say the least.

Wandering home at 2 am last night along a darkened village road under a cloudless, star-spangled sky, I thought that all was well with the world. Some eight hours later, I thought rather differently.

Walter Blotscher