[BITList] Guns and tinsel: Christmas 1940

[Malcolm]

Hugh,

 

The Guinness Cider drink that you mention. A drink that us apprentices used
to drink when we were feeling flush. We were then about all 19 to 20 old. In
our part of the country it is called " A poor man's Black Velvet " Of course
the correct " Black Velvet " is made of Guinness & Champagne. A drink for
the Toffs in the country. I drank it regularly during my years  in Spain,
the bottle of Guinness was more expensive than the bottle of Champagne.

 

Malcolm.

 

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Fred,

 

When Janet and daughter Susan were over in the US a couple of years ago,
visiting my sister Margaret in Tucson, Az, they were amazed to read in
Margaret's grandson's school history book that the US won WW2 "with the help
of Britain". Nice of us Brits to help, wasn't it? Just our natural
politeness. Our granddaughter is at Maastricht University in the Netherlands
studying psychology, as part of the student exchange programme (currently
home here for Christmas), and she made friends there with an American girl
who is utterly amazed at Europe, never having been told anything about it
before she arrived - not a sausage.  One day some years back, when our niece
was over from Tucson, the 4th of July was nigh.  She noted the lack of
preparations for any kind of party - no turkey, etc.  "Why don't you guys
celebrate Independence Day?" she asked.  She's not dumb, which made it
odder.

 

It's 11.00pm and time we were in our kip. There's nothing to get up early
for - the concert in Glasgow is not till 3.00 - but I'm nackered doing
nothing all day with only the odd glass of something. I found a stash of
Guinness in a kitchen cupboard, so I bought a large bottle of decent cider -
and I shall experiment with proportions and try to recreate the mix Tommy
Walker, 3E/O, and I created (after much research) on Chakdara. Wish me luck.

 

Hugh.

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