Birthday

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It's my birthday today.


Cheers.

What millionaires drink

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Millionaires drink booze. But not just any booze, oh no. They drink Champagne, Burgundy (white and red) and Hamilton Russell. They quaff only the most expensive Australian wines.

This was proved by us last weekend at our platinum-plated, starry-eyed, gold-fingered Millionaires' Supper, where we quaffed all these beauties (click pic for a bigger look) and then retired outside, well-refreshed, to check the pre-Bonfire Night firework activity across Highbury.

I say "our" - I mean my lottery syndicate: there's five of us, and we've won three times in the past few months. Never won more than £44 in a single draw, but still, our small total made for a good haul on the fine wine front.

Highlight of the evening was the meat though. Oh! The meat. We got a Chateaubriand from the Highbury organic butcher. It was red all the way through, and to call it perfect would be woefully inadequate. Thank you, TJ.

On a side note, we had a discussion in the newsroom at my work the other day about whether the verb 'to booze' was really suitable to describe what posh people do with fine wines etc at swanky occasions. The consensus was, if you've got a drink in your hand, you're boozing, so there.

This is particularly poignant at the moment, since the Ministry of Stopping You Having Fun is currently considering banning all booze on trains. No doubt there will be exceptions for passengers in first class though, proving as suspected that where posh people think they are above common-sounding verbs like "to booze"... the Government agrees with them.