AFTERMATH: Counsellor Warns Of Slippery Slope

As you might know, the first 22 episodes of this blog are the text of my ebook, 'How To Become A Crack Addict' (Jan to April 2013), which you can also buy on amazon, if you're into that kind of thing.  From that point on, it's the near-daily meanderings of Benjamin of Turnham Green, your happy blogger.  And, on that note, here are today's meanderings...

Oh yes, I'm also Benjamin Lo-fi, apparently, so here's a song of mine from youtube...

COUNSELLOR WARNS OF SLIPPERY SLOPE

  'I just can't get settled,' says Darrell in the study-room, halfway or so through his life-history, to be read in a week before all his damaged peers.
  'If you're going to kill yourself, at least do it with a degree of style,' quipped a passing keyworker on his way to the yard for a Camel.
  Then Greta, Darrell's counsellor popped her head in.  'Remember what I told you, Darrell...I had a client who had a Baileys ice-cream, and that led to a whiskey, which led to heroin...'
  Darrell nodded as if listening.  Then, as Greta passed, he thought, 'Better not have bay-leaf in my stew...'
  But that night there was a bay-leaf in dinner, served up by a recovering bailiff.

And that's it for today.  Come back for more Rehab, tomorrow...oh do?