Gunpowder

[Vagus]

G&T being imbibed here before our evening meal, literally blows your socks off, tastes nice too.
Anyone having anything interesting for a drinky before dinner this evening?
We did try gin and dubonnet a few years ago, as per The Queen, but didn’t like it at all.

[bookbinder]

Can't beat gin and tonic. Cheers!

[Vagus]

Cheers bookbinder (is that your job?)
Just off for a refill...hic, pardon!

[jno]

no blowing my socks off, literally or otherwise, in these temperatures, thank you! A nice warm Ovaltine maybe.

[rockyracoon]

I'm polishing off yesterday's open Sauvignon Blanc. Might move on to an Old Fashioned a bit later seeing as I don't have to cook.

[Rosie29]

I love a g and t but one of my other favourites is a Negroni. I don't mix it myself - I get a bottle of Campari Negroni . Difficult to find at the moment though. Cheers.

[bookbinder]

Vagus, I used to be a bookbinder, but now I'm retired and living the good life!

[Vagus]

Never had an old fashioned or a negroni, just looked both up.
I’m not a whiskey lover but maybe with the sugar in it would appeal, himself enjoys a whiskey.
Negroni looks interesting although I’ve never quite ‘got’ Campari, tastes a bit like unpleasant cough medicine to me, or used to, the last time I tried it which admittedly was many moons ago :)
Cheers!

[Vagus]

Can’t remember when or where or how, but I watched a traditional bookbinder doing his stuff, very, very interesting, and painstaking. Is that how you did it, bookbinder, traditionally?

[bookbinder]

When I began my apprenticeship, I was lucky enough to work for a company that was noted for its high-class binding and printing, so I had a good grounding in high-class hand work. That kind of binding was very expensive, so, as time went on, the hand work declined and machines took over. By the time that I retired, I was operating a machine that produced pocket diaries, and I once trained a lawnmower mechanic to use it. So that's what happened to my binding hand work.

[Vagus]

Such a shame, bookbinder, all those skills lost.
But we are where we are with technology and have to move with the times, keep up or get left trailing behind.
I’m glad you’re enjoying your retirement, nothing like it is there?

[bookbinder]

Retirement is certainly going down well with me and Mrs. bb, Vagus. It beats getting up at 06.15 to go to work, although our work wasn't uninteresting, and we had some good workmates. Anyway, I'm losing valuable gunpowder time! Cheers again!

[rockyracoon]

I always have my Old Fashioned with bourbon, preferably a Woodford Reserve. I don't like whisky very much.

[MartinMillar]

Cherry espresso gin martini using dingle gin

[rockyracoon]

That sounds nice. What's in that?

[david small]

Literally, I don’t think you know what literally means.
Or, did you socks leap from your feet, or, did you mean that it was extremely high in alcohol and tasted so.
Perhaps I shouldn’t take your post literally, just embellished.

[MartinMillar]

10mls of coffee liqueur, espresso and cherry syrup and 50mls of gin shake with ice and pour and a bit of sugar syrup if you want it sweeter

[Barmaid]

I'm going to have homemade damson vodka in front of the fire. It's quite moreish but quite potent!

[david small]

Make mine a lemsip, literally.

[LadyCG]

No G&T for me tonight, but OH has bought a couple of ciders and I'm about to have a glass of Sangiovese. I have some white or rosé for later if I fancy it.

We are having chicken tikka with naan breads, poppadoms and pickles for eats and I have just taken some salmon and ray out of the freezer for tomorrow which will be cooked slowly in the oven in Thai red / mussaman curry and served with coconut rice.

[ummmm]

I've actually got nothing. Very rare I don't have a drink in front of me.

I wanted a milkshake. I wouldn't make him a burger so he won't get the ice cream out the freezer (I've hurt my back, can't bend over, it's a chest freezer) he's such a knob sometimes :-D