Classic misuse of a word
very so often a magazine other than this one arrives in the wooden letter box, up the stony track that leads down to Burnside Cottage. At the moment that entails a 200-yard trudge through deep snow, and one year the snow was so deep I had to borrow a pair of snow shoes. (Tip: keep your feet well splayed, or you’ll trip and fall flat on your face, whereupon it’s almost impossible
