Dee-plus for effort

Tequila comes to the rescue as our chairman and his colleague sit it out at what feels like the longest awards ceremony in history

"Which awards bash are we at tonight?" whispered the chairman of the insignificantly-sized investment company SmallBlue Planet, as we shared a bottle of Brophy's Chihuahua high-grade Irish tequila in a bid to keep our eyes open while the presentation ceremony lumbered on. "I'm not sure," I whispered back, looking around a room that was almost certainly located in The Grosvenor – unless it was The Dorchester or perhaps The Savoy. Or The Hilton. "They all tend to blur into one a bit nowadays – as I suspect I may have mentioned previously on more than one occasion. "Still, using the process ...