ON THE BOOZE
“It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance.”
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth
I KNOW THAT Shakespeare didn’t mean drinking and riding when he wrote those words, but I suspect we all know someone who reckons they can ride better when they’ve had a few. My own experience tends to contradict that. But let me start from the beginning.
The battle against smoking has hardly been won, but it’s going pretty well. You’re a social outcast these days if you light up a durrie.
