Reminiscing with Michael, my co-volunteer furniture deliverer about the previous owner of the table we were moving. "Did you know Gavin B?" he asked me. "I did, and his brother David." The table had been bought by their parents sometime in the 1940s.
I said, "Gavin didn't mind a drink or 17, did he?"
"Would you believe up until the age of about 25, he'd never smoked or drank at all?" I replied, "he surely made up for lost time."
Michael the said, "I think it was my own father who started him on his drinking ways with an appreciation of whiskies & port."