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[vinteuil]

Remind me what a whisky Mac is, or was, sal. We used to serve them back in the 60s. It's not Scotch and Mackeson, now, is it. Is it the same as a Manhattan - Scotch and sweet vermouth?

... wiki thinks it's whisky and ginger wine -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_Mac

[Serial_Apologist]

... wiki thinks it's whisky and ginger wine -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky_Mac

That's it! Thanks for the reminder vints!

[gurnemanz]

Lovely and sunny down in Wiltshire with short sleeves all day and door to garden open. Going bad from tomorrow, we are told, just in time for our town's Carnival procession on Saturday and the arrival of French twinning visitors.
Edit: I am never tempted to anything to whisky.

[salymap]

They got it wrong, saly! Mostly the professionals are pretty spot-on these days, but, even as the nice smiling lady forecaster on BBC 1 lunchtime news was announcing a warm mostly sunny afternoon, I was shouting at the screen, "Look outside, you silly-billies! Look up: yes, that's altocumulus castellanus coming from the south! The wind is in the south-east - classic signs of an upper-air convergence zone, meaning showers at the very least, if not thunderstorms!" But would they listen??

Remind me what a whisky Mac is, or was, sal. We used to serve them back in the 60s. It's not Scotch and Mackeson, now, is it. Is it the same as a Manhattan - Scotch and sweet vermouth?

To me S_A it's Scotch and Stone's Ginger Wine. That's what I have [not much now because of not mixing with tablets]but it's the way I have it.

[Serial_Apologist]

To me S_A it's Scotch and Stone's Ginger Wine. That's what I have [not much now because of not mixing with tablets]but it's the way I have it.

The first time I got truly blotto was aged 14, when my wise parents decided to let me have my birthday party, unsupervised. Ginger wine had seemed such a safe choice... but no one else seemed to want any...

[salymap]

Yes it's good stuff S_A. Stronger than it seems and warming in this Spring. Not that Green Ginger Wine - must be Stone's.

Perhaps the origin of the expression,'getting stoned'

[Nick Armstrong]

I was shouting at the screen, "Look outside, you silly-billies! Look up: yes, that's altocumulus castellanus coming from the south! The wind is in the south-east - classic signs of an upper-air convergence zone, meaning showers at the very least, if not thunderstorms!"

I was thinking 'classic signs' too... but of something rather different...

[Serial_Apologist]

I was thinking 'classic signs' too... but of something rather different...

All I can say to that is fm!

[Anna]

I cycled to the Green Dragon in Croydon and back and have just completed a 6-mile round walk, taking in 3 local parks, looking at their loveliest.

Respect!! You must be as lithe and lean as a prize whippet!!

Today was the first time I was able to leave home at 8am in a short-sleeved shirt, no jacket required. We were promised 19° to 20° but it's been a massive 21.7° with a rather lovely breeze, SE/SSE (which is welcome) At the moment it's hardly much cooler, few clouds, nothing much so far. Forecast is that we'll get the rain around 4am tomorrow morning but it will remain warm so likely to be muggy. But, all in all, a perfect day and I suspect I may very well sit outside this evening and enjoy the warm air.

We were allowed a tot of Stone's Ginger Wine on Christmas Eve, I suspect it was a cunning ploy to put us to sleep so we wouldn't wake at the crack of dawn!

[BBMmk2]

Another lovely day here in West sussex! Shame I was working all day!!

[mangerton]

Respect!! You must be as lithe and lean as a prize whippet!!

Today was the first time I was able to leave home at 8am in a short-sleeved shirt, no jacket required. We were promised 19° to 20° but it's been a massive 21.7° with a rather lovely breeze, SE/SSE (which is welcome) At the moment it's hardly much cooler, few clouds, nothing much so far. Forecast is that we'll get the rain around 4am tomorrow morning but it will remain warm so likely to be muggy. But, all in all, a perfect day and I suspect I may very well sit outside this evening and enjoy the warm air.

We were allowed a tot of Stone's Ginger Wine on Christmas Eve, I suspect it was a cunning ploy to put us to sleep so we wouldn't wake at the crack of dawn!

Crabbie's was (still is?) the (green) ginger wine of choice this side of the border. A fiendish drink, I always thought.

Other dreadful concoctions to be avoided are:

The rusty nail - whisky and Drambuie

Scotsmac - aka Bam's dram or Wham's dram - fortified wine and whisky imported by Jimmy Wham in Largs, not a million miles from where I lived many years ago.

Buckfast Tonic Wine, the delight of many Scottish teenagers and the despair of Scottish politicians.

To really lower the tone, I feel I must mention Red Biddy, much favoured once upon a time in Glasgow, which is cheap red wine with the addition of methanol (methylated spirits). Then there was "electric soup", milk infused with coal gas. I believe it's not as popular since the introduction of natural gas. Flavour's not as good, or something.

Sometimes I'm ashamed to be Scots.

On topic, and on a brighter note, the temperature here reached the giddy heights of 19° today. Amazing. No doubt we'll pay for it tomorrow,

[salymap]

Crabbie's was (still is?) the (green) ginger wine of choice this side of the border. A fiendish drink, I always thought.

Other dreadful concoctions to be avoided are:

The rusty nail - whisky and Drambuie

Scotsmac - aka Bam's dram or Wham's dram - fortified wine and whisky imported by Jimmy Wham in Largs, not a million miles from where I lived many years ago.

Buckfast Tonic Wine, the delight of many Scottish teenagers and the despair of Scottish politicians.

To really lower the tone, I feel I must mention Red Biddy, much favoured once upon a time in Glasgow, which is cheap red wine with the addition of methanol (methylated spirits). Then there was "electric soup", milk infused with coal gas. I believe it's not as popular since the introduction of natural gas. Flavour's not as good, or something.

Sometimes I'm ashamed to be Scots.

On topic, and on a brighter note, the temperature here reached the giddy heights of 19° today. Amazing. No doubt we'll pay for it tomorrow,

Wow,how many lives did those drinks shorten ,mangerton ?

[Serial_Apologist]

Respect!! You must be as lithe and lean as a prize whippet!!

Today was the first time I was able to leave home at 8am in a short-sleeved shirt, no jacket required. We were promised 19° to 20° but it's been a massive 21.7° with a rather lovely breeze, SE/SSE (which is welcome) At the moment it's hardly much cooler, few clouds, nothing much so far. Forecast is that we'll get the rain around 4am tomorrow morning but it will remain warm so likely to be muggy. But, all in all, a perfect day and I suspect I may very well sit outside this evening and enjoy the warm air.

Much appreciated, Anna!

Just as well I didn't take to those Essex lanes today; apart from needing to give my legs a rest, it actually rained hereabouts this afternoon; as a consequence temperatures didn't get higher than 19 C.

[Serial_Apologist]

Wow,how many lives did those drinks shorten mangerton ?

Er, shouldn't there be a comma after "shorten", saly?

[Bryn]

Piers, brother of Jeremy, Cobryn, is the sunspots man. Another 'leftie' turned capitalist, what?