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		<title>Greenwich Book Festival &#8211; The Art of Convivial Drinking by Alice Lascelles</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s one of the busiest talks at Greenwich Book Festival. The El Dorado cocktail which each punter is greeted with as they enter the Queen Mary Court helps,&#8230;]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s one of the busiest talks at Greenwich Book Festival. The El Dorado cocktail which each punter is greeted with as they enter the Queen Mary Court helps, but so does the vivacity and passion with which <a href="http://greenwichbookfest.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alice Lascelles</a> greets such a vivacious and passionate subject &#8211; drinking.<br />
Reading from her book <em><a href="http://www.saltyardbooks.co.uk/book/ten-cocktails-the-art-of-convivial-drinking/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Art of Convivial Drinking</a> </em>and peppering her talk with family tales, like that of the first time she met her husband-to-be&#8217;s grandfather and shared some &#8216;dark, brooding&#8217; navy rum with him, and the run ins she has had regarding the perfect G&amp;T, Lascelles also clearly demonsrates her extensive knowledge. The history of the cocktail is a long one, and she takes us back way before the Mad Man era to the days of prohibition, the first cocktail party in 1917 in Missouri (at 10am), to Charles Dickens&#8217; passion for punch, the frisson Byron added to his rendezvous with the aid of a cocktail or two, and right back to 1600 and the Royal Navy&#8217;s penchant for rum, sugar and lemons in a &#8216;tot.&#8217; She&#8217;s not worried about fashion, standing by her controversial preference for an olive on the side of her Martini, and describing punch as &#8216;party magic&#8217; in the way it draws communities of revellers towards whichever table it rests upon.<br />
Because really <em><a href="http://www.saltyardbooks.co.uk/book/ten-cocktails-the-art-of-convivial-drinking/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Art of Convivial Drinking</a></em>, whilst structured around ten cocktails and written by a drinks journalist is more about what surrounds the cocktails. As she says &#8216;I&#8217;d always rather have a bad drink with good company than a good drink with bad company.&#8217;</p>
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		<title>Wyndstock &#8211; The Country House Party</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[I love festivals. The feeling of freedom, exploration, an opportunity to revel in the luxury of being oneself, as well discover and diversify what excites you. I also love&#8230;]]></description>
										<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love festivals. The feeling of freedom, exploration, an opportunity to revel in the luxury of being oneself, as well discover and diversify what excites you. I also love picnics, country houses, gin &amp; tonics, and twilight magic.</p>
<div>Until recently (I.e April when I received a press release alerting me to the change in affairs) I was under the impression that never shall the two meet, and I was destined to either spend my summer dreaming of sophistication, or revelling in it. Hello <a href="http://www.wyndstock.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wyndstock</a>, please enter and shatter my preconceptions.</div>
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<div>Despite the fact that Wyndstock is billed as an anti festival (in fact its organisers (founders of B&amp;H Group, The Last Tuesday Society and The Blitz Party, amongst others) vehemently detest the f word and all its grubby associations &#8211; big queues, corporate sponsors, vile toilets) there seems to be a lot in common, hence my pre midsummer night excitement. Wyndstock has none of these &#8211; but it does embrace the freedom and spontaneity that people have come to expect of festivals, and themselves at the events.</div>
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<div>Taking place in a glorious country house in Suffolk, the event is one of delight and class. Music to be reached by guided paths into the woods, literature readings popping up all around, a game or two of croquet, gin and picnics. None of this queuing for semi cooked burgers and warm beer, as all meals are provided, and by all accounts are meals, not substandard snacks that fill a hole and line a stomach.</div>
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<div>With swing dancing, fireworks, games, astronomy, literature, music, crafts and tours, as well as the all important music. Get your tickets <a href="https://shop.ticketscript.com/channel/web2/start-order/rid/6V5GWWAP/language/en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</div>
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<div>Plus, I have always thought I could look rather fetching in a little cocktail dress and some wellies.</div>
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