It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

Jeffrey Bernard (27 May 1932 – 4 September 1997) was a British journalist best known for his weekly column "Low Life" in the Spectator magazine and also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse. [citation needed]
Though married four times he often remarked only half in jest that alcohol was the other woman. He became associated with the louche and bohemian atmosphere that existed in London's Soho district.

Jeffrey Bernard (27 May 1932 – 4 September 1997) was a British journalist best known for his weekly column "Low Life" in the Spectator magazine and also notorious for a feckless and chaotic career and life of alcohol abuse. He was later immortalised in the comical play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse.