Category Archives: The Wednesday Tipple
The Wednesday Treat – Tom Collins, and a side of cupcakes
Is there any way to eat a cupcake outside the context of a birthday party without feeling just a little bit Sex and the City?
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Tagged cupcake, gin, lemon, Sex and the City, soda, tom collins, writing
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The Wednesday Tipple – Frozen Mint Juleps and The Lucky Day
My Mum and Dad were visiting New York, and we took a side trip out of the city to see what we could see and have lunch. What I saw was a four leaf clover, right in the middle of … Continue reading
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Tagged four leaf clover, Kentucky Derby, luck, mint, mint julep, mint syrup
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The Wednesday Tipple – Ginger Fizz and diversification
Diversification is the new buzzword of our economic times. Several of my friends now run Etsy shops, stringing beads onto lengths of cut up t-shirts, designing wedding invitations or cross-stitching obscenities by night while PRing, publishing and producing commercials by … Continue reading
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Tagged diversification, fizz, ginger, hobbies, jobs, lemon
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The Wednesday Tipple – Maiden’s Blush, Stilton Crackers, and something to blush about
Our lives and the lives of our friends are currently divided into the Haves and Have Nots: people who paid the extra for HBO, and people who rely on the goodness and charity of those people to invite them over … Continue reading
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Tagged biscuit, blushing, cheese, coyness, fantasy, Game of Thrones, gin, Grange disks, grenadine, pernod, shortbread, vegetarian
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The Wednesday Tipple – Chocolate Cranberry No Bake Cake and Vin Santo
Excitement in the Physics department. Christine has acquired an automatic stapler. Put the papers near it and it staples. Hands free. “It’s literally the Most Amazing Thing I Ever Saw,†said Jon, a man who spent the last couple of weeks … Continue reading
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Tagged chocolate, chocolate cake, cranberries, vin santo
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The Wednesday Tipple – Lavender Fizz and the Big Money Dream
“If I won 625 million dollars,†said Wanda, the post room lady, “I wouldn’t tell a soul. Not one soul. Or people would want a piece of it and I will not have that shit. I will not.â€
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Tagged champagne, Easter, grandpa, lavender, lotto, riches
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The Wednesday Tipple – Lillet Rose, and the cautionary tale of the lucky shag
A friend of mine has been experimenting with internet dating. “It’s not crazy town like it used to be. 1 in 5 marriages start online. It says so on the adverts. I know those things have small print, and it’s … Continue reading
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Tagged dating, gin, internet dating, lillet, love, Spring cocktail
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The Wednesday Tipple – Campari cocktails, stuffed crispy olives and a dose of Deco glamour
Spring cleaning does have its benefits – I’ve recently inherited a feather cape from my mother in law who is heavily into organizing the cupboards.
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Tagged Campari, cocktail, cruise ship, Deco, deep fried olives, feather cape, olive, orange, Spring cleaning
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The Wednesday Tipple – Because apparently we’re all Wild Irish Roses on St Patrick’s Day
This is the time of year when people who were born and raised in Michigan by parents who were also born and raised in Michigan claim to be Irish.
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Tagged Accent, cocktail, grenadine, Housing Works, Irish, lemon, shuffle, soda, st patrick's day, whiskey, Wild irish Rose
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The Wednesday Tipple – Cats, Dogs and Gin Bulldog Cocktails
Because apparently there aren’t enough stray cats already in New York, a charity has decided to import them from the streets of Puerto Rico, where they were probably happily sleeping in the sun and catching mice until netted and captured.