Year of the Fat Knight by Antony Sher

Author:Antony Sher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nick Hern Books

It’s liberating to no longer go to New Year’s Eve parties – like Richard Wilson’s legendary Hogmanay bashes in the eighties and nineties – to no longer stay up late for them, work out how to get there and back, and also, in my case, coke-sniff my way through the jollities, and begin every new year completely wrecked.

These days we go to bed at ten, and simply miss all the fuss.

It’s very liberating.

Wednesday 1 January 2014

‘Happy New Year,’ we murmured on waking. Greg said he heard the fireworks on the Thames at midnight (‘the chimes at midnight’), but I slept straight through.

How strange and wonderful to have a day off already.

We made a roast chicken lunch, and for dessert tried the Pedro Ximénez sherry poured over vanilla ice cream – as recommended on the bottle. Absolutely delicious.

The weather was miserable – grey and rainy – but perfect for an afternoon movie on the telly. It was The Sound of Music. We were both pushovers for it; Greg said, ‘It’s the sound of childhood.’ Mind you, he was six when it came out (1965), and I was sixteen.

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