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    Letter to Wendy

    Jun 30, 2020 3 minutes

    Mine’s a pint – for the slugs

    AS someone who always enjoyed the old ‘amber nectar’ I used to be in that perpetual quandary – beer for me or the slugs, as I could never understand the concept of ‘leftover beer’ for the slugs. So the slugs got to live another day and never fell to their boozy doom.

    Now we are in the depths of Covid-19, we are in the reverse situation. Pubs with no consumers and surplus

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