"I’ve had hundreds of kids thundering through my pub, Potter!"

[torino10154]

*unlocks the door and flips on the lights*
*puts out the appetizers and hits the music*

Ready? Ready....

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Madam Rosmerta and/or Aberforth Dumbledore

Hog's Head

Marathon

Insomnia

Forced Proximity

One Too Many

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Torino and Shelly both plan to be around for most of the day though we will be popping in and out as required by that dastardly fiend, Real Life. BOO! Also, to make sure we don't get alcohol poisoning. And perhaps for a nap. LOL

Let's get our drunk on!

Comments

[a_belladonna]

Due to the Tour de France starting in my country, I decided to not begin drinking until it was actually 5 p.m. here. And made an (unintentional) strong start because I wasn't aware exactly what my cocktails' measuring cup measured, so I made a double White Russian (or should I call it "White Magic"? A festival here decided to rename that and its sister drink to "White Magic" and "Black Magic")
Anyways, that means I've soon had three of them. Still no ideas for fic, though. Will have dinner (with water!) soon. I don't want to hit the wall before midnight, after all. There are drinks to be had!
(Because of the summer and the Tour, there are Skittles-shots and pre-mixed dark'n'stormy, gin & mango smash and mojito awaiting me)

[torino10154]

Definitely have some dinner and water and then come back to us!! :)

[a_belladonna]

Yes! As you said, it's a marathon, not a sprint. ;)

And what was it about decorative cyclists that you mentioned the other day?

[torino10154]

OK so we have a little tree we decorate for various holidays. We change it roughly once a month. Christmas, Halloween, Easter, Valentine's Day, a general autumn one, a tropical summer one, that sort of thing. But some years ago (might have been '98 but I am not sure), we made soccer players that we got out for World Cup years.

Just last year or the year before, we added cyclists to the repertoire. I mean we're pretty casual cycling fans but we do watch the major races every year and sometimes the smaller ones, if we can find them on TV.



That's the whole tree. It's on a little cupboard next to the front door.



A close up of a couple of them.

Anyway, thought you might enjoy seeing them. :)

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[oldtoadwoman]

Hee! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

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[torino10154]

Thanks! Not exactly high art but they're fun. LOL

[mywitch]

That's so cool! I love it!

[torino10154]

Thanks! My step-father made them. My mom and I are the least arty/crafty people while my daughter and her grandpa are likely the most. LOL I need to find the pic of the Renaissance artists's heads she sculpted for a school project. She just googled fucking Donatello (and the other Ninja turtles ROFL) and made his head of clay.

[torino10154]

No idea how long this link will continue to work, I just know eventually it won't but anyway, here are the little sculptures in progress from some ridiculous end of year 10th grade history project C had to do. Renaissance masters

[a_belladonna]

Aw, they're cute. :)

[ride_4ever]

Oh, this is a genius idea about the year-round multi-celebration tree! I've gotta figure out where in my small and over-cluttered space I can set up something like this!

Skittles?

[oldtoadwoman]

I wanna know what Skittles-shots are. Shots that taste like Skittles? Shots with actual Skittles in them?

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[a_belladonna]

It's the latter, more or less: You sort the Skittles after colour and pour vodka on them in the ratio of about 1 part Skittles, 2 parts vodka. Let it draw for about 24 hours, strain it, and voilà, colourful vodka that tastes like Skittles. :)
I used two bags of Skittles, so each colour needed about 1-1½ dl vodka. So I'm obviously not drinking it all tonight, haha.

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[oldtoadwoman]

That sounds fun!

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[a_belladonna]

Yes! I tried it at a party when I was younger and lived at a hall of residence. But it's not until now I really have the money to just buy two bottles of vodka for this experiment (alcohol is relatively expensive where I live).
Plus, teh pretteh, haha. It's very decorative with the bright colours.

[mywitch]

I love renaming that to White Magic!

[a_belladonna]

Right?! And then Black Russian becomes Black Magic instead. ;)

[corvidology]

I want to start drinking when it's 5:00pm here, 10:00pm in my motherland.

In the meantime, hot tea and macarons from a wonderful bakery are really improving my mood. :D

macarons

[oldtoadwoman]

There's a little macaron shop in my new neighborhood that I've been meaning to try ... and they just went out of business. :-( I've lost a lot of favorite restaurants in the last few years and I hadn't even gotten around to trying this one yet.

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[corvidology]

We lost some great restaurants to Covid but the takeout places and the bakeries kept plugging along, I'm glad to say.

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[oldtoadwoman]

I even lost a few favorite places before the pandemic. Favorite bakery (that had been in business for literal decades) closed due to the owners retiring. A favorite barbecue place was just mismanaged and went under. And then the pandemic hit and I lost even more. Lots of good places are still around, but it's still sad to lose some favorites.

variations on skittles-infused drinks

[ride_4ever]

I've done this with Jolly Rancher candies and waited until they totally dissolved, then no straining needed like what's needed with Skittles.

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[oldtoadwoman]

That sounds fantastic! I should probably get back to writing at some point. More booze first!

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[ride_4ever]

And what are you drinking right now?

And what's your current word-count?

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[oldtoadwoman]

I just saw this comment many hours later. The comment chain got so busy. I'm going to have to be reasonable next round and not track every single comment. (At one point I had about 130 unread messages because I'd clicked the option to track everything.)