I’m a strong adherent to social distancing. Mainly because I hate people. Hate crushes. Hate crowds. But only on group levels. Individually its different. I love hugging. I love the total invasion and complete overthrow of someone’s personal space. It’s not a ‘hug’, its a ‘coup’. An invasion. Oh, well can you get your hands off my ass, Mr Hancock? That kind’a thing. But in massed throngs such proximity is not so nice. Leaving a football ground can be challenging in the ‘bottleneck’ areas which all grounds seem designed to incorporate. It starts to feel a bit ‘Hillsboro’. Tube travel, with great fat sumo types forcing bodies onto carriages, that’s the stuff of panic attacks. Leaving a theatre or cinema, because ‘old people’ (beyond 70, for the purposes of this conversation) insist on stopping to look at stairs before descending. Don’t know why, they’re the same stairs they walked up not 2 hours before, but they have to stop first. Clogging up the ‘traffic flow’.

But nightclubs are different. They are there for the crush. Bodies jammed tightly together moving to the same beat (except for 1 or 2 who move to a slightly different beat), that’s the buzz. Enhanced, obviously, by alcohol or other ‘mood altering substances’, which are available at every decent nightclub or from an alleyway close by.

And on CGFI day, July 19th, nightclubs can open for the first time since March 2020. And at ‘full capacity’. But in view of the intervening 16 months, in case anyone missed that bit, the clubs are advising people to remain ‘sensible and spread out’. As opposed to insensible and spread-eagled, as many ended the night in ‘normal’, pre-covid times. So I’m not sure if that the geezer who asked for sensible and spread out, has ever been to a nightclub. He owns 47 of them but possibly has never been to play in earnest. I can’t wait til they re-open, personally. #itchinf’rarave.

Football tonight. The biggest… EVERYTHING EVERRRRRR. Words can hardly describe the bigness of this event, so immense is its magnitude.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx