But other than that, I just avoided occasions that I thought might make me feel very, very wistful.
Given that I come from Scotland, and drank the hard stuff in place of milk as a baby, it was hard to avoid those occasions when red-faced philosophers would come bursting through the door after midnight, thirsty for camaraderie and the sauce of life.
That's no doubt because, as a paid-up member of the latté-drinking liberal cultural elite, I tend to avoid social occasions and gatherings in which the song is played and sung along to.
While many people in Britain were celebrating the royal wedding on Friday, some were doing their best to avoid the occasion.
For her, it was all about careful management, about avoiding those occasions when something might be said that couldn't be taken back.
He took an active part in the running of his college, but avoided public occasions, to the extent, for example, of declining an invitation to become a founding member of the British Academy.
You are simply resolving to try to avoid the near occasions that lead you to sin -- this still counts as repentance.
Instead, it called for "pastoral accompaniment" for divorced and remarried Catholics to discern their moral culpability for not living up to the Catholic ideal, while "avoiding every occasion of scandal".
I've become shy, avoiding any occasion when somebody might ask: 'So what do you do?'" If you were to line up Britain's unemployed youth, they would stretch from London to Edinburgh.
With the pageantry and spectacle of Wednesday's game fast approaching, many would seek to avoid playing the occasion - not Reo-Coker.
