“Alcohol is the anaesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.” - George Bernard Shaw When living in Holland I often had colle...

“Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abid...

"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out." - Alfred Hitchcock I really like Bollywood movies and I have seen qu...

“Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.” - Aldous Huxley   We watched a cur...

“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...” - Evelyn Wau...

“Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.” - William Shakespeare At the weekend, there was a horrific fatal car crash i...

“Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.” - Knute Rockne The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is a very ...

“Spirit has fifty times the strength and staying-power of brawn and muscle” – Mark Twain The Daiquiri cocktail was originally conceived as ...

“Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.” – Thomas Fuller I am reading a book by Pauline McLynn at the moment, in case you can’t place the...