Confession.

Reasons and excuses and reasons to drink at home

• ·         I am celebrating Bangor City winning
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• ·         I am drowning my sorrows after Bangor City lost again
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• ·         Suzy has come back from Liverpool
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• ·         Suzy has gone to Liverpool
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• ·         I am bored
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• ·         There is really good TV on tonight
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• ·         There is nothing good on TV tonight
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• ·         I really, really want a cold beer
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• ·         It would be a shame not to pair this meal with a nice robust red / delicate fruity white
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• ·         I feel ill and am morose
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• ·         I feel great and light
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• ·         I have a cold and want to kill it
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• ·         I am nostalgic for Cayman and a rum and coke will help me get back there
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• ·         I have come back from a long journey and I drank on the way home
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• ·         I can’t afford to go out drinking properly
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• ·         I am feeling very empty of everything
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• ·         My brain won’t switch off and I want to shut it the fuck up
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• ·         I need to send myself to sleep
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• ·         It is my birthday or Christmas or some other occasion
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• ·         Asda has an end of line deal on ___________
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• ·         I had some left from last night so might as well finish it off and buy more to make sure it works properly
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• ·         I feel angry and want to hide away and blank it all out
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• ·         I hate the government
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• ·         I can’t reconcile my disgust at the world with my laziness in doing nothing about it
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• ·         I am not where I want to be
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• ·         I am not who I want to be
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• ·         I feel tearful and I want to make myself cry at nature programmes / sappy soppy family show / romance / cartoons
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• ·         I have had a really busy week
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• ·         I have a busy week coming up and I am nervous
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• ·         I am invulnerable to disease
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• ·         I am worried about my health
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• ·         I am scared that my family will one day die
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• ·         I do not want to think about mortality
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• ·         I do not want to think about the future
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• ·         Suzy is stressed
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• ·         I am stressed
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• ·         Hell’s Kitchen is on tonight
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• ·         I don’t want to grow up
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• ·         I always wanted to be a drunken flawed genius and it is easy to achieve the drunken part
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• ·         I love the feeling of being woozy and comforted by the booze blanket
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• ·         It will give me strange dreams
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• ·         It will give me a hangover which knocks out all my filters so I can produce leftfield insightful writing in the morning cause I don’t give a fuck
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• ·         I am lonely
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• ·         I did not ask to be born and I am still struggling with my consciousness
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• ·         I feel guilty that I do not appreciate life in the way I think I sometimes should
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• ·         Everyone else on this TV show is drinking and I feel left out
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• ·         I’ve had a shitty day
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• ·         Elections
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• ·         Wales fail to qualify
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• ·         I don’t know how it got there but there is a glass of wine in my hand
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• ·         Middle class guilt
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• ·         Everything else