The Field

Going off-grid with a glass

T’S been a few days since I last drank a bottle of claret in the woods. But now I have found my dream property to indulge one of my favourite pastimes. I jest. However, given everything going on in the world, it seems an eminently sensible hiding place beneath the trees. I just hope

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