Wine Chateauneuf do Boris

[DodgyAgent]

Boris Johnson is a brilliant writer, and today's column in the Telegraph is great not for what he says (which is spot on) but it is "the way he tells it".

There is however a serious point here, which is that many middle class people are drinking one to two bottles of wine every evening when they get home from work, causing liver problems. Judging from some of the gargled drivel that is posted here after 6 o'clock, I would imagine that there is a "healthy" contingent of "two bottles per evening plus" on this site

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/lif...cle1884492.ece

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/m.../07/do0701.xml

The problem is that this is a very serious problem, because the people doing the drinking do not actually get drunk and smash the planet up, nor are they alcoholics in the sense that they drink from dawn to dusk. So instead of dealing with the problem NL and this stupid woman in the dept of health have trivialised it.

I can feel a "how much do you drink?" Poll coming on

[chicane]

I have no problem with middle-class (interpret as: people earning respectable money) people doing 2 bottles of wine a night, because they're financing the time when the NHS has to deal with their demise.

I have a problem with lower-income folk smoking/eating their way into oblivion as they're the ones causing the financial defecit.

[SallyAnne]

What a load of pape!

[King Cnvt]

I have given up drinking. I was drinking 1/2 bottle of red wine every day.

It was the thought of giving Gordon all that duty that did it for me.

[DodgyAgent]

What a load of pape!

SA you've been sneaking into that wine cellar again have'nt you

[sasguru]

Aye. Not smoking is attractive because you're effectively depriving Gordo of funds. Quitters - that should be adequate motivation.

[threaded]

Yay, more pictures of Caroline Flint!

[SallyAnne]

SA you've been sneaking into that wine cellar again have'nt you

My dad made his own wine for 20 years...I grew up in a house where you were classed as a freak if you didn't have a glass in your hand.

None of it ever made it to the cellar though...it was lucky to get into a bottle!
At one point he had to start putting the day of the month on the labels - if we had one a month old it was a very special occasion

[Bagpuss]

Since when did council houses have cellars?

[SallyAnne]

Since when did council houses have cellars?

Ours did!!! It was an amazing house...

Cellar = cupboard under the stairs.
Rooftop terrace = my bedroom wnidow which opened out onto the front door cover.
Vineyard = small part of the back garden where me dad used to plant potatoes (and bury bikes and washing machines for some reason!).

We were taught the benefits of an active imagination at quite a young age