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Things We LoveJuly 24, 2017

A Few Summer Drinks Ideas, Plus An Excellent Cocktail Book

By Amanda

Apparently, according to new research, even moderate drinking is now linked to an increased risk of dementia and other age-related issues. Life without any alcohol would be very dull in my view, but I’m aware of the dangers and I… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 26, 2016

What to serve during Dry January

By Amanda

Dry January. Are we really such a bunch of lushes that we need to take a whole month off to prove we’re in control? Denial only makes me want something more, so I’m unlikely to adopt this idea as a… Read More

Food, We Are ReadingNovember 8, 2015

Good Things To Drink with Mr Lyan & Friends by Ryan Chetiyawardana

By Amanda

This, I can vouch from recent practice, is an excellent book on drink. Since I received this to review last week I have thumbed enthusiastically through the recipes, considered a cocktail with pureed aubergines and made the Nuked Negroni, a… Read More

Things We LoveAugust 18, 2015

Bank Holiday cocktail kit with Funkin Cocktails

By Amanda

I was sent a box of Funkin Cocktails last week and very jolly they looked too. Twentysomethingsons showed an interest as soon as I took each colourful carton out of the box….They were accompanied by a beautiful silk scarf by… Read More

Things We LoveOctober 18, 2014

The Vodka Zinger

By Amanda

So, this is rather fab, despite its daft name. I have been trialling this gadget to improve my cocktails and I can vouch for its effectiveness. The zinger consists of a perspex bottom section of slicing blades, which allows you… Read More

Health & HappinessJune 14, 2014

Weekend Woman: Julia Forte from the London Gin Club

By Amanda

It’s World Gin Day today, hurrah! So we thought we’d put Julia Forte (born1965), founder of the London Gin Club up as one of our weekend women. Julia runs her delightful gin club from the Star At Night, a bar … Read More

Home & GardenJune 13, 2014

We love: organic edible flowers from Maddocks Farm

By Amanda

Middleagedad will only allow me to have one dinner party a year as he is not a fan of them. I think I might have put him off them right back when our sons were younger and we were busy… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutMay 30, 2014

The Cocktail Gardener talks plant powered cocktails with The Women’s Room

By Amanda

Cocktails mixed with flowers and gardening? Does that sound like the perfect combination in our quest to learn how to mix an interesting cocktail? The delightfully grown up Lottie Muir is the Cocktail Gardener and we caught five minutes of… Read More

Home & GardenApril 18, 2014

Mixing Easter cocktails with The Women’s Room

By Amanda

Forget chocolate, people, this Easter, we’re going to tell you how to make a couple of delicious gin based cocktails that will make the weekend go with a delightful sense of stylish merriment. Our recipes also give you an excuse… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 25, 2014

Cocktail shakers: the Mother’s Day present for grown up mums

By Amanda

Enough with the scented candles. As an alternative present for Mother’s Day, can I suggest you encourage your offspring to treat you to some really classy cocktail equipment? Regular readers will know that this year I aim to get you… Read More

Home & GardenJanuary 6, 2014

More cocktails in 2014! Let’s start with Tipplesworth Travelling Cocktail Cases

By Amanda

We’re back! Happy New Year to you all, may it be a fun and full one. Regular readers will know we don’t do New Year’s Resolutions here on TWR, who has the time? And as someone older once said to… Read More

EventsOctober 8, 2013

Hendricks Women of Substance Cocktail

By Amanda

Can we suggest a new cocktail for your recipe books? The lovely Neil, head mixologist from the Ace Hotel made this for us at our TWR salon and it went down very easy. Our Women of Substance cocktail consists of… Read More

Home & Garden, Out & AboutJanuary 9, 2012

Sipsmith gin in Hammersmith

By Amanda

Gin is having something of a moment in the spotlight, with lots of small artisan distilleries popping up all over the place creating hand crafted gins lovingly distilled in copper stills. There was an excellent Radio 4 programme on the… Read More

Out & AboutJanuary 3, 2012

More dancing in 2012! at Drink Shop Dance

By Amanda

Should we make New Year’s resolutions (best not to, I find, you only end up being disappointed) then we would definitely want to dance more in 2012. Dancing is joyous, fun and even counts as exercise so we should do… Read More

Home & GardenDecember 22, 2011

Your Christmas Cocktail

By Amanda

It has been the Year of the Cocktail for me this year, it must be an age thing. Half way through the year I gave up wine completely because it was making me feel awful and I swapped to (mostly)… Read More