Day Zero
We're going down down in an earlier round, but sugar we're going down swinging... My earliest memories are about age 8 - 10. I have a bad memory as it is, but a combination of teens & early twenties spent drinking heavily, a scattershot attention span, and decades to forget leave my childhood fragmented in my mind. But I remember the sugar. I'd wangle together a pound every day. Be it pocket money or however I'd obtain it (read between the lines here, I can't incriminate myself) I'd get that pound in the evening. I'd walk over to the Limetree newsagent and buy two packs of Sherbet Cola for 20p, and then pop next door to Dunnes and pick up a mint aero for 40p and a can of coke for another 40p. I did this every day. And guess what? I never really changed. Chupa Chups were a big office favourite for me! Fast forward two decades. I am a habitual, compulsive, addictive person. There is nothing I hold a mild interest in. I am obsessed with M...