tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post8010953919333417703..comments2024-03-26T23:41:10.319+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: Lev Butts' Christmas Wish ListKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-90780788216118037692016-12-26T14:31:28.054+00:002016-12-26T14:31:28.054+00:00Great post, Lev. Here's hoping all of us get #...Great post, Lev. Here's hoping all of us get #1 next year.glitter noirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11728649916344336118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-50788957191485400532016-12-24T18:17:53.053+00:002016-12-24T18:17:53.053+00:00Quite right too! All the very best for Christmas.Quite right too! All the very best for Christmas.Jan Needlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823078224282953782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-38177736107059077512016-12-24T13:06:46.757+00:002016-12-24T13:06:46.757+00:00Jan, I pfft in the face of your pfft to my pfft.
I...Jan, I pfft in the face of your pfft to my pfft.<br />I shall ever raise my glass of Laphroig in a forest of arms raising g&ts.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-18659912661723985452016-12-23T16:57:44.648+00:002016-12-23T16:57:44.648+00:00I even went to a gin festival last year and spent ...I even went to a gin festival last year and spent hours sipping infinitesimal plastic beakers of neat gin. There were seminars: Which Tonic? Lemon, Lime of Orange? The best gin cocktails. Cucumber or Green Pepper? And so on. I do love a good gin and tonic but I suspect there is a bit of bandwagoning going on. I bought my daughter and me two G&Ts in an Edinburgh bar this week. It was her birthday so I used the boat out and chose a 'speciality gin' and the "better' tonic (fever something). It set me back almost thirteen quid! (About 20 dollars?) Call me a Scottish stingy but I call that a rip-off. <br /><br /><br />Fran Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13497526684591168192noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-10651819464504786152016-12-23T11:41:33.429+00:002016-12-23T11:41:33.429+00:00Sound advice, Lev, and excellent choices. However,...Sound advice, Lev, and excellent choices. However, as Ms Price and Mr Needle have hi-jacked the blog with their gin-soaked ramblings, I feel it's incumbent upon me to direct their (and everyone else's) footsteps to Southside Street in my home town, Plymouth. There, in an old Blackfriars monastery, they'll find the ONLY place where Plymouth Gin is made. There are no Gordon's-type franchises. I used to walk past it every day from my home on The Barbican, some 300 yards away. on my way to primary, then secondary school, But it was only a few years ago that I actually visited and did the tour. It's the best tour of such a facility that I've ever had - and I've been to countless distilleries in Scotland.<br /><br />I realise that my comment has little to do with your excellent blog but while for you, Lev, the trek from 265 East Johnson Street is a wee bit longer, I guarantee it'll be worth it.Bill Kirtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16345949773423764808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-71478149417237050832016-12-23T11:39:30.444+00:002016-12-23T11:39:30.444+00:00Great stuff, Lev - Happy Christmas, whatever it br...Great stuff, Lev - Happy Christmas, whatever it brings!Sandra Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01761260568729338471noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-14237987863410545202016-12-23T11:20:28.264+00:002016-12-23T11:20:28.264+00:00Now ladies - keep it civilized please! However I a...Now ladies - keep it civilized please! However I am I am definitely of the gin persuasion and off to shake up my Bacon-bomber cocktail courtesy of Messrs Waitrose cherry & amoretto granita recipe which when short of ice-cubes I once slung in my gin and tonic - well HELLO.<br />And thanks for all your excellent suggestions Lev - I'll have all of them :) AliBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09611113709872287863noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-69985228693987954822016-12-23T11:12:51.525+00:002016-12-23T11:12:51.525+00:00Listen, Ms Price, there is nothing, NOTHING, in th...Listen, Ms Price, there is nothing, NOTHING, in the world nicer than a gin and tonic after a long hot day pretending to be a writer. I can't drink spirits because of an old head injury (confrontation with forty two ton Volvo) but every now and then I have a G&T (double, naturellement) and suffer the next day's headache with something approaching affection. I Pfft in the Pfft of your Pfft!Jan Needlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823078224282953782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-89508289162761021702016-12-23T10:20:26.813+00:002016-12-23T10:20:26.813+00:00Good advice, Lev! My partner long ago figured out ...Good advice, Lev! My partner long ago figured out that a bottle of single malt is the best Christmas present for me. I wish he was as easy to buy for.<br />And Jan, gin? Pfft.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-6876754246291440422016-12-23T09:44:45.904+00:002016-12-23T09:44:45.904+00:00You aint gonna get a bottle, Lev, but gin in Engla...You aint gonna get a bottle, Lev, but gin in England is really really big now. Everyone is brewing it, possibly in their bathtubs, and some of it is terrific. As Hogarth once said, 'drunk for a penny, dead drunk for tuppence.'<br /><br />And a Merry Christmas from the old country!<br />Jan Needlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15823078224282953782noreply@blogger.com