[Jayne Osborn]

Originally Posted by Catherine Chandler

I assume the title is hyperbolic !

Maybe not, Cathy. My husband and I once kept the corks (yes, hundreds of them) from all the bottles of wine we got through over many years. Later on we had a garden party which included a Guess How Many Corks contest, with a prize for the closest number. People found it hard to believe we'd drunk that much vino! (The answer was . . . no, I'm embarrassed to say )

I like this sonnet a lot and have only a minor nit.

Close to the end of June, here is the first
bottle of wine I've opened since the fight
on New Year's.

It might just be a regional thing but where I live we wouldn't say ''on New Year's." It would have to be either "On New Year's Eve" or maybe "at New Year", signifying sometime just before or just after New Year's Eve. But as I said it's only a minor thing.

Having considered umpteen ideas of what to do with hundreds of corks myself (drat, I never thought of making a raft), I really like

discard? Repurpose? (Coasters, trivets, raft...)

Nice one.

Jayne