I have three obsessions which, at the moment, strongly influence what I’m doing at 8pm.
1. I am obsessed with purchasing ‘the perfect green cardigan’ and spend hours searching the internet for said item. Although this morning I wondered if red might be a better colour.
2. I am obsessed with finding a combination of beauty products which give me a daytime glow and dramatically reduce aging over night, again this takes up a signficant amount of my internet time. I am as far as the revelation that is; Hot Cloth Cleansing. The rest alludes me or is, frankly, too expensive.
3. I have reaquainted myself with gin.
I am, of course, enjoying gin responsibly and in moderation. I just get a little obsessed that a gin would be nice. Gin was the drink of my teenage self. I’d nonchantly order a “gin and grapefruit” and thought it made me appear older and worldly to the Wheatsheaf bar staff. In retrospect I think it’s the drink of Grandmas. That is more worldly and a lot older than I was aiming for.
I feel a bit of a slapper admitting this but I have only recently discovered that gin is an aperitif “a drink that prepares the palate for food”. At 8pm it is my post food drink of choice. 8pm is about when the domestic part of the day is over and I am tempted to collapse into a heap and stare into the middle distance in the vague direction of a TV. When actually I have a vacuous evening of internet trawling ahead of me. A gin and tonic is the perfect reviver. A refreshing evening companion. I’ve always liked Gin but my renewed love of gin crept up on me while on holiday. Gin in a tin was on special offer in the supermarket. It’s a convenient alternative when camping. Sunny evenings and holiday barbeques make for good gin friends. Once I returned from my holiday, naturally I wanted to wallow in the holiday ‘spirit’ for a while longer.
On Saturday I was having a meal with friends and gin was the drink of the evening. At 8pm this was an aperitif. Gin sophistication. Cheers to 8pm. Gin O’clock.
So far I’ve looked at three Gallery posts today and they all involve alcohol. Yours is the only gin one though – the others were about wine. well done fo being original 😉
Thank you – I am glad I am not alone in my evening alcohol consumption but hoping that I will find other gin drinkers or I might feel like a bit of lush 😉
So basically, your life is shopping, looking fabulous, and Mother’s Ruin. Awesome.
ha ha! I wish!
I do like a gin after dinner too – and before dinner, and with dinner for that matter. Sounds a top way to be spending 8pm
cheers. I knew there was a reason I liked you so much!
Ah..gin. mothers ruin. Alcohol has featured a lot this week in the 8pm theme.
am hoping it won’t be my ruin – but who knows….
Oh, you have made me laugh 🙂
Hope you find the cardi. I can’t drink any alcohol after 8pm or I’ll never get up in time next morning x.
thank you! oh dear thats a terrible shame 😉
Now I like a gin and tonic too – but in moderation – its the one drink that makes me maudlin – original take on the prompt! (I’m glad I didn’t join in this week – I think mine would have been rather dull).
it actually doesn’t make me maudlin! but maybe I’m not drinking enough 😉
Ooh, now I never knew gin was an aperitif – always seems like an after dinner drink to me.
glad is not only me!
Hmmm. I have to admit to having never tried Gin. Daddy Lloyd on the other hand would totally agree with Gin at 8pm!
I can recommend!
Ah, gin and tonic my favourite. It’s been a while between drinks though and I guess I’ll have to wait til this little one is no longer feeding…
your post was very entertaining, I can just imagine sitting infront of the computer to all hours with a gin!!
umm thats a pretty accurate imagine!
As a gin-partaker myself, I am very much with you on this….cheers and bottoms up!
cheers my dear!
Okay well I will be different, Gin can’t stand the stuff unless I have turned it into Sloe Gin which I usually do every year and it’s opened on Christmas Eve but not at 8 ‘o’ clock!!! Today I am being a rebel I know 😉 x
P.S I have lost my favourite green cardi you haven’t pinched it have you?!!!
I’ve never had sloe gin – I think now I need some!
honest m’lord! I don’t have your cardi 😉
Jealous that you get to sit down and relax at 8pm. We are still in a heap of clothes and mess and begging kids to please hurry up at 8pm. And 9pm. And ‘go to sleep!’ at 10pm.
I think I need to relish my 7pm’s a bit more – it’s never occurred to me that they won’t last forever! duh!
I’m loving the drinking theme going on this week. Especially if gin is involved!
cheers!
Love gin myself but not london dry. I’m more Gordon’s. I used the last lot of London dry I had to make sloe.
everyone’s making sloe – this is something that has completely passed me by!
Cocktails at my place, gin at yours!! 😉 Pretty cool bottle.
I really liked the bottle!
Drink to prepare the palate for food? My motto is eat to line the stomach LOL I’ve tried to gin before but it wasn’t for me. I’m a peach snapps gal myself.
oh peach snapps – I like!
Mothers ruin? I’ve never heard it called thstz. I became obsessed with cardigans from Sainsburys because I discovered they were good quality and lasted for a while. I’m pretty sure I spotted a red one there!
I will check out Sainsburys – thank you for the top tip!
I am obsessed with cakes, as you might have guessed. Not so good for the waist-line though! I am partial to a decent Gin and Tonic too (love that tin by the way!) Tanqueray is my gin of choice, with plenty of ice, tonic and a big fat chunk of lime! 🙂 x
Tanqueray isn’t one I’ve come across – I will look out for it and lime nice great *ditches lemons!*
I swear by Laura Mercier spf tinted moisturiser-slapping that on after birth, the midwives thought I hadn’t even had my baby yet-it’s genius!
I’ve heard so much positive stuff about Laura Mercier – I think it is top of my MUST HAVE list.