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    The rule of sixty

    Apr 29, 2021 3 minutes

    ANYONE TEMPTED TO TOAST the latest roadmap milestone with an al fresco pint at their local will have had to either obey the rule of six or take care not to socialise with members of more than one other household. No such restrictions apply down at the allotment, where it is a case of the more, the merrier. There’s just one entry requirement: membership of the phylum Mollusca.

    The slug pub, as I’ve taken to calling it, consists of a

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