LET'S BE CAREFUL OUT THERE
Saturday afternoon turned into Saturday night and a relatively quiet drink with friends watching the Arsenal put five goals past Burnley turned into an anthropologist's voyage of discovery. Unaccustomed as I am to going to bustling pubs and bars on a Saturday night I was most startled to walk into two hostelries that resembled one of those painting by Hieronyous Bosch. When was life so loud? I'm not talking about music but the sheer volume which emanated from each location, what I can only call shouting.That's right, not reasonable levelled discourse but shouting. I'm sure that the conversations being had were both interesting and illuminating but why those thoughts and opinions were being bellowed at a volume approaching the sound of a helicopter taking off is beyond me. Let's talk about etiquette. For me, anyone who is taking up a seat without having a drink in front of them should be summarily ejected from the establishment. So many seats occupied by those no