Beauty is in the eye of the glass holder

On tongues, the cuppa-opening-ratio, and whether bigger really is better. No, you're the one with a dirty mind.

 Hello hello!

First - an apology. There has been a hiatus, an interregnum, a… pause… in this Substack owing to the arrival of Matilda, the latest Fattorini. Mum and baby are thriving. It’s been a fun, busy time. But at child number six, it’s my last. Not least because any more and I’d have as many children as Boris Johnson.

As always these things come in…