In these trying times, what the world needs most of all is love.

Failing that, how about numbing the pain with a cocktail I invented recently on a trip into the French countryside?

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Tags: Cocktails, Cocktail recipe, Civilised, Creativity, Drink, Drunkenness, Life, Recipes

“Did you know his mother’s name?”

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Tags: Drunkenness, Chance Encounters, Glasgow, Scotland, Friday Night Out, Drink, Elvis Presley, Writing

“Beware, Be aware of intent-, intentions, intents, intent..ion.”

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Tags: Drunkenness, Chance Encounters, Glasgow, Scotland, Friday Night Out, Drink, Beware of Intentions, Writing

Flip-flops, shorts, close-cropped hair and a checked shirt tight over his squat, bull-like body.

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Tags: Thoughts, Ideas, Writing, Life, Masculinity, Man, Drink, Waiting

Sometimes, when the drink has gripped my soul, I see more clearly than I have done at any other time.

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Tags: Clarity, Thoughts, Ideas, Writing, Life, Knowledge, Drink