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Thursday night was the MacUser night out which inevitably meant some pounding heads yesterday morning (Friday). As we all say around slowly stirring our tea and nibbling half-heartedly on corners of toast we went over the night before.

Ads, of course, stayed out the longest. They have far more stamina than even the most hardened journalist.

We started at the Marquess of Granby where it was warm enough to stand out on the pavement drinking sloe gin, which turned out to be sickeningly sweet, but at the same time strangely moreish. There’s a whole clutch of embarassing pictures of us getting less steady on the kerb edges until we slid off altogether and headed off in search of food.

Julian likes jugs - pic by Chris of the Brennan

We should have booked ahead, of course. This was a Thursday. The new Friday. And the whole of Fitzrovia was full. We paraded up Charlotte Street, losing a few along the way, and ended up doubling back towards Soho, by way of Strada, which would have no problem seating us… if we waited two and a half hours.

Soba, always a good standby was almost empty, fortunately, so we marched in and sat at the far end on the long yellow tables. Putting us that far away from everyone else didn’t make much difference. It must have been awful being in there with us as it didn’t take long for the conversation to degrade to the level it usually only reaches in the office.

It’s not surprising they brought us the bill unprompted.

We decamped to Jamies where the shot-takers sent themselves giddy with Baileys and sambucca, and the rest of us wisely stuck to a very ladylike wine.

Yesterday, then, started very slowly after all that, and culminated in a dance-off just before home time to the tunes of Yes, Sir, I Can Boogie and Ring my Bell, regardless of the floor-to-ceiling windows.

The people outside desperately wanted to join in.

You could tell.

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