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HANDS up if you’ve ever bought a gift-bag for a bottle of wine. Thought not. Me neither. So where have they all come from? There are currently six – six! – lurking in the spare wardrobe where we store presents and gift-wrapping. I’m beginning to think that, like wire clothes-hangers, they can breed in the dark, writes Mary Muvihill