Keeping Fit Whilst Still Drinking, Smoking And Doing The Odd Line Of Coke

The essential introduction to 'The Booze Line' and the crew of the Motor Vessel 'Mavis D'. The stories are real, the people are real, the rest of it is a load of bullshit.

Meet Mavis Boothroyd and the crew of her fine vessel the 'Mavis D'. A jaunt around the Compass Bar at the Heathrow Hotel introduces The Owner, Master, Chief Engineer thru the ranks to the Ordinary Seaman including a couple of well seasoned wives. Each of these crew members telling true stories of rather unusual pursuits which the author was on most occasions the principal character. Circumstance and name aside, integrity has prevailed where after all is said and done "you can't make this shit up!"

Extracted from the bastions of encouraged homo-sexuality by virtue of being expelled from the British private education system at the age of sixteen, Melbourne (two minutes) Pinks starts on a story his years of robust partying, extroverted companions and acquaintances with this first book that introduces the (not so) selective reader to the early years of his development as an alcoholic and drug abuser thru a crew of characters whose only fictitious attribute is their names.