midnight
I wake up nearly twenty hours later , and my knee feels like it 's broken into a million pieces , which it is . I wake with a yelp , catch my breath , yelp again , and Daisy is up and crouching beside me in a flash . Tony arrives a moment later and they take me to bed . I spend New Year 's there , behind a wall of codeine , and Daisy dips her finger into her glass of fizzy nauga-champagne and touches it to my lips at midnight . # I eat four codeine tabs before getting up , my usual dose . Feb is on us , as filthy and darky as the grime around the toilet bowl , but I accentuate the positive . By the time I make it downstairs , Tony 's in full dervish , helping unload a freshly-scrounged palette of brown bread , lifted from the back of some bakery .