Tag: drinking
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My partner and her husband (my metamour) have a tradition that every 5th wedding anniversary they get the "next size up" of champagne bottle.
This meant that on yesterday, when we celebrated their 15th, we needed to get through a Methuselah: a massive 6 litre bottle equivalent to nine standard bottles of champagne (rightmost in the attached picture).
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A half bottle, standard bottle, magnum, Jeroboam, and Methuselah of Bollinger champagne lined up on a window ledge, with a banana for scale.
It's times like these you're glad of friends you can call on to help you drink such a monster!
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TFW a recipe calls for a glass of wine but you can't get the cork back in the bottle so you just have to drink the rest of it.
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Dan, in a kitchen with some kind of tomato sauce on a hob behind him, holds a glass of red wine and shrugs at the camera.
Ah well, what's a chef to do? 🤷🍷
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It's been a long day of driving around Ireland, scrambling through forests, navigating to a hashpoint, exploring a medieval castle, dodging the rain, finding a series of geocaches, getting lost up a hill in the dark, and generally having a kickass time with one of my very favourite people on this earth: my mum.
And now it's time for a long soak in a hot bath with a pint of the black stuff and my RSS reader for company. A perfect finish.
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A pint of Guinness alongside a can, on a tiled bathroom shelf.
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Enjoying a glass of cava while the kids peer down out of the window of a Barcelona skyscraper.
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Half-full champagne flute on a table. In the background, two children look out of a floor-to-ceiling window.
Day 8 of my sabbatical. Think I'm doing this right?
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First-person view down a hammock in a rural garden. The hammock's occupier (Dan) is holding a novel and a can of premixed Pimms & lemonade.
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Without The Bod
Dan celebrates his final day at the Bodleian with drinking, games, and rap music.
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In 1973, I invented a "girly drink" called Baileys
My dinner-party party piece for many years was to say, “Well, actually, I invented Baileys. You know, Baileys Irish Cream. I did that back in 1973.”
If one of the unfortunate listening group is a woman – and this is based on actual past experience - she is likely to respond something like … -
UK drinkers look at alcohol guidelines, laugh, and have another beer
You will be shocked to hear that, according to a new report in the journal Addiction, the UK government's drinking guidelines are incompatible with the UK's drinking habits. Solving the problem might lie in a counterintuitive update: accepting the reality of binge drinking...
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Review of The Kings Arms
This review of The Kings Arms originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. The Kings Arms, 4 The Moors, Kidlington OX5 2AJ, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A pub that's like pubs should be. No television; no jukebox; just nice beers and friendly locals and hospitable staff and a dog. And a jar …
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Godzilla's Family Vlog Review - Episode 9
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Edinburgh 2012 - Day Six
Another day at the Edinburgh Fringe: comedy, whisky, a museum... and telling a room full of strangers about your unusual relationship configuration. Twice.
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Edinburgh 2012 - Day Two
Dan's second day at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival sees magic, comedy, and lots and lots of whisky. Also a little cheese.
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Douglas of Drumlanrig
Dan finds himself falling right into a First World Problem when he discovers a love for a whisky that's too rare for him to have whenever he likes.
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Village Of The Bunnies
To celebrate his birthday, Dan is joined by Ruth in an effort to construct a diorama of a gingerbread village under assault from enormous gelatinous bunny rabbits. Alcohol may have been involved.
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My Very Excellent Liz Just Brought Us Sixteen Pizzas
Dan saw in the New Year, highly intoxicated, in Macclesfield at the house of his friends Liz and Simon. There's a video and everything.