Category Archives: The Wednesday Tipple
The Wednesday Tipple – a Steadier, for frazzled nerves and catastrophe
One of my first jobs was working as a runner on a hidden camera prank show. The kind where the producers convinced paintballers that they were being recruited for MI6 so the television viewing public could laugh at them. Basically, we messed … Continue reading
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Tagged bitters, brandy, drama, lemon, lost tapes, steadier
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The Wednesday tipple – in anticipation of Oscar Night Parties
In a stunning departure from the norm, and in particular, from last year’s Oscar shame of having seen a sad total of 2 nominated movies before the awards, Jon and I took my visiting parents to see the Animated Shorts … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, bitters, champagne, cocktail party, oscars, sugar
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The Wednesday Tipple – Gin Gloom Raisers for an epic telescope fail
Some days – and especially some days in February, post Valentines, with nothing but grayness and rain to look forward to for a few months – the happiness equilibrium is easily rocked and shaken. You had a bad day.
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The Wednesday Tipple – The Love Witch and Rose Pink Sangria Love Potion
Several years ago I wrote a series of interviews about people with highly alternate world views for a fashion-y glossy magazine. A woman who had been abducted by aliens and given birth to alien babies, for example. A man who … Continue reading
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Tagged cosmopolitan, French martini, love potion, love spell, love witch, Orange pomitini, pink cocktails, valentine's
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The Wednesday Tipple – Football Fans and pizza wonton bites
Everything I know about football can pretty much fit on a cocktail napkin. My dad, who is something of an oracle on American sports in spite of being British, has given up hope.
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Tagged cointreau, football fan, grapefruit, scotch, wonton, wonton pizza
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The Wednesday Tipple – Sidecars, 80’s advertising porn and celebrity gardeners
Over Christmas when Jon and I were visiting his parents in Scotland, we were given the task of organizing all our stuff that was stored in their garage. We moved to New York with 2 suitcases, so literally everything else … Continue reading
The Wednesday Tipple – French 75 and interpretive poetry rap – in homage to Gertrude Stein
Our friends Hilary and Jeremy, inspired by Gertrude Stein’s famous Parisian artist salons, hosted a dinner where everyone had to stand up and do a turn, talk about their latest play or project, test run a new song, and generally … Continue reading
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Tagged champagne, dinner, French 75, Gertrude Stein, gin, hubble, lemon, rap, salon
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The Wednesday Tipple – Fig Martinis and an important question; what would you do if you knew that you could not fail?
January is a time for reflection, resolution, change, expectation, tentative starts, running out of steam, postponement, utter failure, despair and drinking. A time when we make lists about the things we intend to change about ourselves and enumerate our shortcomings … Continue reading
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Tagged epiphany, fig, Istanbul, martini, New Year, resolution, vodka, what would you do if you knew that you could not fail
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The Wednesday Tipple – the perfect cheese tray and port jelly
Back in London, post Christmas family visiting road trip round the country, and with the prospect of being in the same bed for consecutive nights, thoughts turn firstly to drink, and then to New Years Eve and the celebration thereof. … Continue reading