Sunday, 22 June 2014

Combien?

For Jon and Liz
Not famed throughout the Kingdom for my spatial
awareness, when you asked, “How many bottles
d’you think could fit inside this tank of wine?”
I made great play of estimating length
and height of tank, and even asked if I
could climb atop said tank to carry out
some calculations (spurious, of course)
before I plucked, quite randomly, the figure
of twenty-thousand bottles. Sorry that
I didn’t give you cause to laugh at my
numerical ineptitude, but how
was I to know my guess would be spot on?

Domaine Sainte Croix, Summer 2013

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