The day I received a £540 energy bill, I met a friend for a drink.
It was my turn to pay, and I watched reproachfully as she cheerfully ordered a second glass of wine. The shock of that bill was making me downright stingy – we can all be prone to parsimony when feeling the pinch.
’s extremely generous editor admits to arriving at a party during his first term at Oxford with a half-drunk bottle of cooking sherry, rather than eking out his pitiful student allowance
