As I step out of Oxford Circus tube station to meet Millbridge, I get the feeling that I have been unwittingly plunged into the early nineties and an episode of Challenge Anneka. This is largely because of a message on my phone from Philip: "Go in the pub, find a booth, we're at the back. We've sat by some mirrors, so it looks like there are twice as many of us as there actually are." At this point, I'm not entirely sure whether this is a deliberate tactic to disorientate me or a well meaning attempt to amplify the bonhomie. The rather surreal experience of seeing everyone I'm meeting twice is compounded by Mike, who turns and asks if we can all have nicknames for the evening. Stuart "Bendy" Roberts already has one, and it swiftly emerges that it was well earned. "I was on television," he says enthusiastically.
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