Christmas Lunch

Clipart showing a portrait of an old grannie

inspired by Fandango’s One Word Challenge (FOWC) of 5 January 2022, alcohol.

When Aunt Gertrude stood statue-like, thinking,
I was shocked when she seemed to be sinking,
As she started to spin,
I caught strong reek of gin,
And ’twas then that I grasped she was stinking.

Prompt image for the Fandango One Word Challenge prompt

Author: Mister Bump UK

Designed/developed large IT systems, interrupted by a stroke in 2016, aged 48. Now mix development of health-related software with voluntary work and writing. Married, with an estranged daughter.

17 thoughts on “Christmas Lunch”

  6. You must not like juniper berries if you think she was stinking. lol.. you do come up with them. I use to drink
    Gin and tonic when I started drinking, changed to rum and coke very quickly. Coming up with those 3 matching words
    wrack the brain – drink some Gin

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    1. I drank g & t as a teen, to try to be sophisticated. As I got older I’d mainly drink beer but would have malibu & coke to round off the night. Older still Irish whiskey or cognac or wine. Now I only drink wine, and never more than a couple glasses per night. The bottle I opened at Christmas lasted until new year.

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  7. I never drank much but I tried beer and couldn’t get the smell past my nose. Mainly my last drinking was VO and Ginger Ale, now stomach is lucky I can drink water 😦

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    1. It’s funny how childhood memories scar our lives.

      I threw up on mulled wine when I was about 16 and even just a whiff now makes me wretch. Worse, I tried to pretend that I hadn’t thrown up and hid the offending trousers at the bottom of the wardrobe. You can imagine how they dmelled…

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