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The Tipsy Vixen: July 2011
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Monday, July 11, 2011. MxMo LIX: Beer Cocktails! Holy brewsky, Batman! My first official month participating in Mixology Monday! If you're not familiar with the event, you can read more about it here. One Monday each month cocktail geeks everywhere get together on the interwebs for a virtual cocktail party. A different blogger hosts each event and offers up a challenge: this month, Fred from Cocktail. Invited participants to make drinks with Homer's favorite libation, beeeeeeeeer. *drools*. In a mixing g...
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The Buzzy Bee: Jiggered
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Trying to be a bit less busy. There is, it seems, a Scots word appropriate for every occasion, and today's is "jiggered"! Meaning: exhausted, tired out, in need of a wee sit down and a cuppa! And the reason for this jiggeredness? The sun, which made an appearance today (hat on and everything, hip hip hip hooray! Prompted me to get a load of laundry hung out, AND to dig out the hen run, weeding at the allotment, and in amongst all that, the paid job. But, as you can imagine, after all that, I'm a bit wiped.
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The Buzzy Bee: Drouth
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Trying to be a bit less busy. Drouth: Scots word meaning "a terrible thirst". And that describes my allotment plot. It also described me the day after D and I went out for our anniversary! Oh, it was a GOOD night. In a dress for once, as I spend my life in jeans, we went (First Class! To Glasgow and to a wine bar for Champagne! But, sorry, enough of my drinking habits, we had Champagne! Back to the wine bar for more Champagne and then train back and to bed. Seedlings making a tentative appearance! This i...
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The Tipsy Vixen: January 2012
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Thursday, January 19, 2012. I work in hospitality. At a four diamond hotel in downtown Chicago, as a matter of fact. That said, since we're smack in the middle of our fallow season, I've got next to no hours, and I'm pretty broke. Well, more so than usual. Today though, I feel like a million bucks! I had to run some errands today, and kept Caroline. The f*@#k is that? Tony Stark has created Iron Squid. Can you tell what it is? It's a five arm chandelier, and the answer to my prayers! Now, I have absolute...
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The Buzzy Bee: May 2011
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Trying to be a bit less busy. This is the image from the Aberfoyle Osprey nest. There's something badly wrong with this picture, and it's the fact that there is no bird sitting there. The first chick was due to hatch by now, and we should be seeing an attentive mother bird protecting a tiny chick from the elements and a proud dad coming in with fish. It's very, very sad. This is the third year running that this nest has failed, with different birds. I think Nature is the same though. She just does wh...
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The Tipsy Vixen: June 2011
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011. The Solstice - A Tipsy Vixen creation. 2 oz VeeV Acai Spirit. 15 oz Jacques Cardin VSOP Cognac. 1/2 oz homemade ginger syrup (instructions below). 1/2 oz lemon juice. 2 dashes Regan's Orange Bitters. Sometimes a girl just can't catch a break. I was supposed to spend the summer solstice whooping it up all Celtic-like with my extended Chicago family, but as luck would have it, instead this girl was bored out of her mind at work. Booooooo! For this one, I tried my hand at making ging...
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The Tipsy Vixen: May 2011
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011. A Tipsy Vixen creation. 1 oz VeeV Açai Spirit. 1 oz Broker's London Dry Gin. 1/2 oz lemon juice. 1/2 oz Flora syrup. 12 drops of Bittermens Burlesque bitters. Cast your vote once daily here. I was only 8 years old when Pretty In Pink was released, but I was already well familiar with Molly Ringwald; for whatever reason, my mother couldn't stand her and wasn't shy about discussing it, so naturally I thought she was the bee knees! And set to work making homemade syrups to experiment ...
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The Tipsy Vixen: Penny Pincher's Paradise
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Thursday, January 19, 2012. I work in hospitality. At a four diamond hotel in downtown Chicago, as a matter of fact. That said, since we're smack in the middle of our fallow season, I've got next to no hours, and I'm pretty broke. Well, more so than usual. Today though, I feel like a million bucks! I had to run some errands today, and kept Caroline. The f*@#k is that? Tony Stark has created Iron Squid. Can you tell what it is? It's a five arm chandelier, and the answer to my prayers! Now, I have absolute...
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