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Last night featured a new episode of Doctor Who on BBC1, which I’ve watched religiously since it started again recently. However, last night also featured an extremely necessary jaunt up to Tring park with lots of beer on a mission to drink myself slanted with my 2 cohorts, Jim and Lloyd. Lloyd wasn’t actually about until later on so me and the Jim met up at 8:45pm, bought 15 bottles of Stella and went for a wander.

It was a lot of fun, and Lloyd met up with us on the flyover at about 10:15 (I couldn’t read the time on my phone by then because it kept moving about too much), and we carried on from there. Unfortunately I’d left my alcohol tolerance in Germany so countless (read: not many) bottles of lager had bedrunken me and I was somewhat diagonal in my meanderings along the footpath back to Tring, grabbed chips and cheese (the portions at Mighty Bite are enormous) and staggered my way home, calling Caley to tell her I loved her in an extremely slurred and repeated manner.

So, on Easter Sunday morning, I am part-way through my hangover cure process.

1. Fill the kettle with a third of a litre of water, and switch on.
2. Put a splash of milk in a mug - preferably one with a large handle.
3. Find a pint glass and fill with half water, half smooth orange juice (none of those ones with bits of severed orange in)
4. Drink from the pint glass, go for a slash, and drink another one of the same.
5. When the kettle has boiled, fill the mug from the kettle, add a teabag and stir clockwise 9 times, or until contents of mug are chestnut brown. You can add sugar at this point, but it’s not necessary as you most likely can’t taste anything anyway.
6. Drink contents of mug, slowly, and go for another slash. Whatever you do, do not lie down, as you have a stomach filled with a lot of liquid of various temperatures, and you will most likely be sick if you are hungover enough to require this cure.

This method is based on ’science’ rather than an old wives’ tale, aiming to relieve you of the 3 things that make a hangover feel worse: dehydration, a full bladder, and the taste of shite in your mouth and throat.