My inent for this morning after eight o'clock Church was to do a bit of rambling and post, but I got a bottle of Old Tom gin for Xmas: opposite to London Dry gin, OT is sweet so makes a distinctive martini which, with OT, is called a martinez. It involves sweet vermouth, orange bitters, and maraschino cherries and their liquor, decidedly different to my usual after church dry martini. It's a treat, but so far different from the usual martini that when using the Old Tom I may shift from martini to Tom Collins, for which I'll have to get some tonic.

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