The Crepey Cube

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Nicely done Crem! back at you...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mrs S. Hope your dinner was delicious.

My lovely boys are, thank God, so far at least 1000x more sensible than I ever was as a teenager... on the other hand my parents showed so little interest in what I was up to that it bordered on neglect. I tell dss this and how horrible it was when they find me overly intrusive.

Stropps, , you need an appointment sooner than that and you need to tell it how it is, not how it is when you are putting s very brave face on things.

Well done Crem (chinks wine glasses).

Hi all here as feeling slightly dodgy - we appear to be passing the germs around amongst us Chez Blackduck, and they are mutating....

Ha! Sprung from parents' evening.

I got quite into cocktails at university but they didn't go well with a course involving 9 o'clock lectures six days a week. Then, like you NUF, things turned grim as my father got cancer and died when I was 24/25. I felt so old, and different, for a while and then had the dc. So there may be a party animal deep down inside me, but I suspect it was never to be as I don't like standing up, crowds, loud music or feeling tired - and never did!

Is it Friday yet?

Oh yes, cocktails - Happy Hour at Henry's. Zombies
Maybe Knicker Droppers were a Northern thing?!

Sorry to hear about the sad times though.

B52s

Now you see, B52 makes me think if group before cocktails. I love The Love Shack.

Rudy - I'll get my thinking cap on although as a banlieusard I'm not very good at off the beaten track. what are you after - museums or shops or just general wandering around?

I was a pint of bitter girl in my yoof... So sophisticated ;). Cocktails - nah - not a big spirit drinker at the time.

Cherry B BTM? Yuck.......

Love both kinds of B52's!

Yes, BD, let's just say I wouldn't go back to drinking them. You could also mix a bottle of Babycham into a pint of cider.... I was obviously a top-drawer girl back in the day

Ooh, Babycham with a cherry, another sophistocat here. Haven't had one of those for years, do they even still make Babycham?

God yes - babycham - snowballs on NYE!!

DD asked for a snowball over Christmas - we had advocaat but no lime juice. I couldn't believe I had forgotten to get some.

Then there are those other "grown up" drinks like Dubonnet. Haven't had that for donkey's years either.

I bypassed the teenage drinking: put off the whole idea by father's alcoholism. Didn't put my sisters and brother off, I have to say. So far, DD has shown no interest at all and I'm nervous about how I'll cope when she does. Just do the exact opposite of everything my mother did, for a start .

Glad mini-Herbs's operation went well.

How are you today, Stropps?

Auriga, my father was an alcoholic too. It didn't put me off though and it didn't put me off men who drank too much, DH apart! And I worry about the DC.

Found you! Anyone finding this thread for the first time will be completely bemused. First 15 posts detailing vintage drinks in the S&B topic!

We had a local bar who handed out small teddies depending on how many B52's you drank. For some reason, this seemed a reasonable challenge to accept. This was in our mid twenties though!

Many things in one's mid-20s seem acceptable, of course

Thank heavens today's 9am meeting has been shifted to a lunch meeting tomorrow must not have glass of wine and be indiscreet as DD1 is ill. Though also thank heavens she is old enough to leave while I go to the supermarket later. All glamour, my life.

Dubonnet! God that brings back memories (mainly of a friend being spectacularly sick on it - not once, but several times...)

I am supposed to be writing another feature and don't feel like it at ALL.

Can I add to our list of vintage drinks - Ricard, which I mistakenly thought made me look cool in the pub at college, and Cointreau, which I took up to college with me under the impression that it was incredibly sophisticated.

I was so uncool and provincial as a teenager that I didn't even realise how uncool I was ... many painful flashbacks now

Oh, Ricard! I remember one French exchange where we went back to one girls house after church(!) for an apperitif. The dad offered us all a Ricard and I, having never tasted it before, asked for a large glass. How he must have laughed. I have never drunk it since and hate the taste of aniseed

Oh, Rudy, I wish I could be a proper writer (am drivelling on about this on FB atm!).

I like Cointreau

I may purchase some Aldi vermouth later (this evening) and make a Mixed Martini, that's how glam I am

I went off Martini and Cinzano too - it was our idea of being sophisticated in the pub aged 15/16!