The Field

Madeira, nothing to fear

MY wife says that it proves I’m a doddering old fool. I say that it proves I’m broadening my horizons. She says I’m a lush. I say it takes one to know one. She says… Oh, hang it, you don’t need to hear all this, we can go on for hours. The point is that during lockdown I tried to make myself useful by clearing out what I refer to as my cellars but are in fact a pair of cobwebbed cupboards under the stairs.

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