being honest, about 4 cans of boddy`s and a couple of small glasses of wine a night. not much more at the weekends unless its a special one in which case its a night on the wine. generally a bottle and a half is sufficient, red or white, but any more gets you the internal balaclava feeling in the morning. like gerkin it was a bottle a night after our daughter was born but as the sleep patern returns to normality you lose the dependency. also my health is as good as i would hope for, given my age and consumption, but as we eat almost disgracefully well and healthily and i take constant exercise with my work, do no drugs bar nurofen, have never smoked , then i feel i can let myself loose a little bit.my father lived a similar lifestyle and passed away this year at the age of 82.his last comment to me the day before he died was that he wished he could have a stiff one to get rid of the cold he had. the coughing contributed to his heart failing. He left a gallon bottle of whisky for his funeral so we could toast his life and keep the bugs away !