Rude Awakening

My mum had this uncle who was a real Jack the Lad, a real cad, he was Tony Soprano before there was ever any Sopranos, we are talking 60s, 70s, early 80s. A nightclub owner in Hastings who was more than that and up for it all. But I only really have one memory of him.

He had cancer, he’d been on the treatment and was out of hospital and had lost weight a…