Reduced drinking update

[Sir C]

You enjoy the extremes of self-indulgence or self-denial. It's one or t'other. Two sides of the same coin, sort of thing. Moderation is for fags.

Aye. Two cheeks of the same arse, one might say. I find that while I'm running every day, all is well, but if I miss a day, I have to have a week off to recover my rhythm, then go again.

[Burney]

Aye. Two cheeks of the same arse, one might say. I find that while I'm running every day, all is well, but if I miss a day, I have to have a week off to recover my rhythm, then go again.

‘The lilies and languor of virtue...and the roses and raptures of vice’ as dear old Algernon Charles Swinburne put it.

Mind you, I’m not sure it’s not t’other way about these days.