I'm drinking a large glass of a mixture of cherry wine and carbonated elderflower presse, served through a straw, plonked in a large brandy snifter glass, with a few ice cubes nestling within.
And I am enjoying it greatly. Saw these little bottles of cherry wine on sale in 4-packs for about £4.60-4.70, or something like that give or take 10-20p. Not like those tiny one-shot spirit bottles, but each bottle contains just one glass of the wine, although it isn't a massive glass overflowing its rim and onto the floor, neither are they stingy. Alcohol content is a little short of 12%.
Now, I LOATHE each, and every single wine made from grapes, or anything else made from grapes other than the fruit itself, at least, I really, REALLY dislike fermented alcoholic beverages sourced from the grape, no matter what it is, I hate it. So I really wasn't at all confident that this cherry wine wouldn't just end up being given to a friend. Was OK on its own, not at all bad, but not sheer delight either.
But mixed with that lovely lightly fizzy, refreshing as fuck elderflower presse it really comes into its own. My friend who came round earlier tonight didn't fancy trying it at first, but she did have a wee sip. Turned round and was all 'wow thats fucking NICE shit!!!!!
So I'm drinking a glass of that, and I'm about to start nibbling on a jar of pickled olives in brine. I've got two jars of green and one of black olives, all pickled in strong brine.
(correction, I'm nibbling on said olives, the green ones first, this time, rinking my cherry wine and elderflower, while I have a few cigarettes, as my evening opioid dose is kicking in (the first tiny bit of it anyway, I just took 10mg oxycodone, as I have some IR caps to hand. I've some morphine readying, have already just had a bit. Got another 160-170 (forgot which) getting ready mainly.
Sooner its ready the better, because my feet are hurting like a fucking bastard, because of the autoimmune crap that affects my feet, that comes and goes in flares. For the most part it stays dormant
and quiescent, but it can be very painful when I suffer a flare-up, as it likes to take the skin off, straight down to the bare muscle if I am unlucky. Especially if I do not have any corticosteroids, as these abruptly terminate such flares with just a few days of steroid. I have some steroids though, at the current time, and my current flareup was is only pissing me off really, its not taken any skin off or destroyeued tissue, theres nothing different to see, only soreness, and especially, pain upon pressure on my heels. Could be a hell of a lot worse, it frequently enough has been.
