Category — Drink

I’ve never made a fancy cake
a malt loaf is really me
I can make a lovely cuppa
so I can always have Assam tea,
I can rustle-up a chicken pie
with the shortest crust you’ll ever find
with a tasty bit of gravy too
but I never make tiramisu,
or even glorious meringues that rise
in heavenly peaks that reach the skies!
I’d rather have a drop of gin
and write a little ditty,
I’m getting on a bit you see
but I really don’t need your pity.
I truly like to dance and sing
with music playing in my ears
a duster in my hand,
like I was seventeen again
as I listen to rock-bands!

I like the music blaring out
put on my heels and gad about,
It gets the work done double quick,
then a drop of Gordon’s does the trick.
Pies,Poetry and a pint of Gin
my life’s complete, I dream within
of Para-gliding in sunny climes
but to be quite honest I haven’t time.
I’m busy selecting the brightest hues
of brand new hair colours,
and when I stand in queues
I love to listen to the latest chat,
of pretty girls who admire my hats!
I love to spray the testers too,
such fun to smell like a famous star
with Chanel and Gucci, I’ll go real far…

Never mind the ‘leccy bill, would
love new lipstick, better than pills!
Ah! this ones, the one for me
scarlet red, smooth as can be
will make me feel like twenty three,
Pies, Poetry and a Pint of Gin
to dance down street, new life within.
I spend the days reviewing years
I like to write and think a lot
not much one ,for knitting socks
nor for mowing or removing weeds,
I think I’ll  move overseas!
and sit all day with skirt to knees                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             in deck-chair on sand and feet in sea
with wrinkled face and cigar for me.
I can dance all night in Latin clubs
with swarthy handsome younger coves,
then come home at dawn for a cup of tea,
perhaps… I can learn to water ski?

but really I think I’d rather have…
Pies, Poetry and a Pint of Gin !

Copyright @ Susie Hemingway 2009

Gin is something I have always been rather fond of.  Not I’m happy to report in any needy way but from quite a young age it has always been my social drink of choice. Over the  years I have tried many different brands, but  Gordon’s  London Dry Gin has always been my first love.  My second choice would be Bombay Sapphire which is a really very superior gin, distilled from 100% grain and a good old 1761 recipe . I have over the years imbibed some rather odd  gins ! drunk in some far flung places, when on occasions a dusty bottle with a dodgy looking label and of some throat burning liquor would appear from under the counter. Still I have always come back to my friend the very special Gordon’s. There is nothing for me quite like the clean crisp tang of juniper berries with the bitter taste of quinine from a  good tonic with a slice of  lime. I always prefer the bottle of gin and the tonic chilled rather than the glass filled with clinking ice  yes, it has always my drink of choice.  During the past year or two I have been very lucky to have received as presents some rather interesting and different gins to sample. Firstly Tanqueray which is 43.1% proof and is a real ‘hit you in the eye drink’, and I must confess rather good. Next came Pink47 at 47%, a nice clean London Dry Gin and I might add, comes in a very pretty scent shaped bottle looking like it should be on the dressing table rather the bar, but a delicious tasting gin never-the- less . THEN ! we come to HENDRICK’S at 41.4% ,this is a simply wonderfully tasting  Gin! made (their words) “with a free and imaginative spirit” , it is distilled and bottled  in Scotland. Could this wonderful Gin  find it’s way into my heart knocking Gordon’s to second place after all these years? As they say ” It is not for everybody” that  “it is a gin made oddly”. Well it uses coriander and citrus peel infused with  juniper and rose petal and would you believe a hint of cucumber!  I laughed when reading the label,  preferred by1 out of 1000, which as they say “is fine by us,  not easy making this stuff ” but this super gin quite took my breath away. It’s true, this fact that no other gin tastes quite like  Hendrick’s, and this truth only enhances the experience but it truly does,  it’s good, it’s really good!   Try drinking with tonic and a slice of cucumber – simply divine.  Now I ask myself, after all these years, could my long term love affair with Gordon’s be in jeopardy or even dare I say over?

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