‘Abandon hope, all ye who enter here.’ Or, as the A&E sign put it on Saturday night, ‘Expect to wait for five hours from your arrival time’. We don’t want to be here. Who does? We are a gathering of ruined evenings; of people for whom things have not worked out tonight; some, shockingly so. In short, no one planned this. Next to us are a couple who’ve come from Surrey to Eastbourne for a dance weekend. ‘I was really looking forward to it,’ she says. Only she tripped over …
