Keep a lid on it

It’s easy for your wine consumption to sneak up on you. Jo’s a party gal at heart, but she knows she can have fun without a glass in her hand.

- JO SEAGAR

If you could bottle the laughter of girlfriends, it would be the world’s best tonic. Getting together with the girls for a wine or two is right up there at the top of my “favourite things to do” list. However, a wonderful few summer months of late night barbecues, dancing on the beach and the lawn (and sometimes even the table), hairbrush-microphone singing Dancing Queen and taste-testing every new botanical gin got me thinking. All wonderful evenings for sure, which started with a cutesy text about popping over because it must be wine o’clock. The glass or two perhaps quickly spiralled to a bottle or two and suddenly the recycling bin is getting a tad heavy. When does this stop being funny, and the clinking glass emojis become a bit of a worry?