posted by Arty on May 11
Sunday is traditionally the Sabbath and the day for going to church. Not in my family. Sunday is traditionally hangover day. The best things about a hangover are:
- You get to stay in bed all day
- You get to watch tv (although with the volume turned down)
- There’s no need to make meals or bother with eating
- If you’re lucky, you’ll have someone to run round after you with sympathy (this never happens to me, but I hear some people do)
- You get to try out new hangover cures - some good, some bad, none work but hey, coming up with five ‘advantages’ to hangovers is difficult
If you can think of any more to console me and the millions of others with hangovers, please feel free to contribute with a comment 
posted by Hilary on May 10
The other week I went to Chester and as usual, ended up in the Revolution Bar. There are 65 bars around the country at the time of writing so there’s bound to be one near you. If you’ve never visited one, then you really should go, just don’t do what I did.
Chester has plenty of bars but this is a great place to finish up. Just take a look at their great vodka flavour menu - almost every flavour you could want, and plenty you wouldn’t.
Never let someone else choose the flavour you’re going to drink - especially via text messages, I wouldn’t recommend it, and don’t drink as much as we did. For every flavour shot we had, we also had a vodka and coke to go with it. We drank around 6 rounds - this was after already visiting eleven other bars and drinking 12 other vodka and cokes. I can’t remember all the flavours, but I distinctly remember After Eight, Milky Bar, Mango & Pineapple, Milk Chocolate, Strawberry and Raspberry.
The hangover was not good and I’ve been off drink ever since. In fact, I hope you appreciate the effort I’m going to in writing this article because I still feel sick thinking about it. I’m sure my liver is not thanking me. Tonight, I’m going back on the drink, but gently. Never, ever again am I drinking to this extreme… I have said that before albeit several years ago, but this time I mean it. I think…
posted by JD on May 9
Friday drinks after work are a great way to do a little bit of team-building, without having to dress up, do silly activities like making a rocket or rowing across Lake Windermere (yes, I have actually had to do both of those in past employment… not the only reason I left but possibly a contributory factor)
When looking for a job, always make sure there’s a nice local if you want to have a great team atmosphere. I think they should use this tip when looking for locations for a new business too. Then again, this is probably why I don’t run my own business…
Happy Friday!
posted by Hilary on May 8
As they say:
“A little pricey, but ’stella’ great lager”
is this great lager, Stella Artois, what you’d call ‘a real drink’?
According to some it is, when compared to something like the Long Island Iced Tea cocktail we wrote about yesterday. Now, what is wrong with the odd cocktail? And this one in particular is hardly a girlie cocktail, multi-coloured with umbrellas and stuff sticking out of it. You try drinking a few of those compared with a few Stella Artois, then tell me it’s not a real drink!
Stella Artois was in fact introduced firstly as a Christmas lager, a mere gimmick. However, it proved so popular with the Belgians that it became a main stay. The original tax records for this lager show it originated around 1366, so maybe those that say it’s the only real drink ought to get with the times.. or maybe I’m just bitter?
posted by JD on May 7
Well, I figured I’d kick things off with one of my favourite cocktails. This isn’t a sweet one, which are the kind I normally go for, and it’s a real killer - BUT - it’s easy to make at home and it’s one of those cocktails where it doesn’t matter if you don’t have the best brands to hand. After all, keeping a fully stocked cocktail bar at home can be expensive.
As the piccie shows, it should be served in a highball glass, with a garnish of lemon or lime.
Ingredients:
10 ml vodka
10 ml tequila (I never compromise on this one, Jose Cuervo all the way, preferably gold)
10 ml rum
10 ml gin
10 ml triple sec
75 ml sours
Shake all the above, pour into a glass of ice and add some cola
Cheers!
