Such a lot of wonderful Dog posts - thank you, all.
Friends will visit, this evening. They popped in for tea, yesterday, but it’ll be wine/gin/vodka etc. today. Hence an urgent dash to Lidl, for the procurement of cheeses, paté, crackers, olives and suchlike. Why anyone, with access to Lidl, would buy these things anywhere but there is beyond me @MeaniesRUs.
We have had the car serviced by our wonderful itinerant mechanic. Fabulously funny and entertaining bloke - today we have enjoyed the full saga of his Horribly Gone Wrong Hernia Operation, the resulting shrunken testicle etc. Perhaps you had to be there.
Gin would be nice.
Soo xx
Now then, young Carinthia, hayfever remedy, this should sort you: vodka, peach, amaretto, apple, grenadine shaken but not stirred, served in shot glass without garnish. Soon, you shall go to the Ball…x
soo, there’s Pimm’s No 1 in both jugs, the crystal one with elderflower and the earthenware one without. The lemonade is home made. Alternatively, there’s pink Plymouth, g’n’t, etc.
I shall make up a Pimmsalike using vodka; they used to do one, Pimm’s Number 6, which I liked a lot, but I haven’t seen any for ages. So it will just have to be a ripoff version.
Apparently the vodka version does still exist, or rather exists again: they stopped making it and then started again in 2015 after an outcry. So I might try to find some.
Meanwhile, have a Pimmsalike with vodka. I shall call in a Number 6 and think of the first cigarettes I ever smoked.
Pimm’s No 1 was and is gin-based “tonic” dating from the 1840s or so;
Pimm’s No 2 was based on Scotch and came out in 1935;
Pimm’s No 3 was based on brandy and also came out in 1935 and was later sold as “Winter Cup”;
Pimm’s No 4 was rum-based and came into being in the 40s, after the war;
Pimm’s No 5 was rye-based and introduced in the fifties some time, in Canada at first;
Pimm’s No 6 was vodka-based, and only introduced in the 1960s as far as I know.
1 gin; 2 Scotch whisky; 3 rum; 4 brandy; 5 rye whiskey; 6 vodka. 1 the original, 2 3 5 defunct, 4 available in winter with winter spices as ‘Pimm’s Winter Cup’, 6 made in very small quantities. Some bars sell a pretend ‘Pimm’s No. 7 Cup’ based on tequila. When your man Pimm invented it as a digestive aid in his oyster houses he wasn’t thinking of going beyond gin. ‘No. 1 Cup’ referred to the size of receptacle he had in mind.
