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The bowl of a coupe glass containing a pale yellow cocktail garnished with an orange twist is visible in front of a page from a cocktail book showing images of cocktails and the recipes for them. The cocktail depicted is a Ford Cocktail and it's in the top right of the page. The rest of the text is too small to read.

This is one answer to the 10ml of Benedictine question.

A Ford Cocktail.

The Benedictine bottle is empty and a space opens up on my booze shelf.

More Benedictine, or something else? Whaddaya reckon?

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Well, England don't seem to need paying. 😬

*hard stares at you in a green jersey*

Yep.
They're too hot headed for their own good, but they'll only learn the hard way.

A thing I like about rugby fandom is that (mostly) love of the game is bigger than love of any one side, and we like to see teams doing well, being exciting to watch, overturning the odds etc. almost as much as seeing ‘our’ team win.

Almost.

Lovely little bit of history. ❤️

What’s fake about still having US airbases on our land even though US is led by the deranged offspring of a fatberg and cheesewhizz?
Fox News don’t want to “help”? Fine. Get your people out of Lakenheath, Fairford and the rest….

🤬

Cheers to you and your aunt!

Bottles of Cognac and Benedictine on a wooden surface. In front of them is a rocks glass containing a B&B cocktail over ice, garnished with a lemon twist.

Life in the shoe:

This B&B has taken me nearly to the end of my Benedictine.

(Who knows of a cocktail that only calls for 10ml of the stuff and I'll make it next...?)

#confinedcocktails

Yes, hard to imagine any other outcome.

On that form, Italy should beat Wales, France will walk all over England, and Ireland v Scotland will be a helluva contest.

“It’s finished here in Rome.” kinda sums up the tournament for England. 🏉

#ITAvENG

Well played Italy. What a tournament they’re having!

#ITAvENG

I know! And that didn’t seem outrageous given the run up to the tournament, but we’ve been outplayed over and over again.

Ugh!

🫣

#ITAvENG

Uh-oh!

#ITAvENG

France is my side in this match, but I can't be too disappointed in the result because Scotland have been fantastic and France found heart despite being taken apart.

What a game!!

#SCOvFRA

That was a bit more like it. If they recover their spirit they can still do a lot in 14 minutes.

Good lord!

#SCOvFRA

This is a bit unexpected but it's great fun to watch!

(What's happened to France's usual energy and flair?)

Sneaky!!

#SCOvFRA

Match day bingo: "end to end stuff". 🏉

Blimey. Scotland!!

Infantino is a disgrace. Rare for a piece about football to leave me choked up.

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

For the avoidance of any doubt about my intentions - he’s right that “When crazy people have nuclear weapons bad things happen."

And to complete the thought - He’s a crazy person with nuclear weapons making bad things happen.

Well, he’s right about one thing.

Well, useful words escape containment, don't they?

It's true it's not a family word from my childhood, but it's in regular use here, so it either comes from DH (who's not a Scot either but is from the North East and down here gets taken for one) or it's been picked up by the kids on their travels!

😂

I ...yes ... why wouldn't I?
(Only if it's really tasty, mind!)

I've tried (and failed) many times to do that thing where you work for 25 minutes and then give yourself a five minute screen break.

Turns out the answer is a record player in the office, so I have to get up to turn the record over at the end of each side. 😊

Proper scran ❤️!!