Pimms!
In honour of Wimbledon, the first Pimms of the season.
I love Pimms, and I love Wimbledon.
Pimms tastes of long summer evenings. I add cucumber, apple, mint, orange and strawberry to mine. Not quite conventional, but I like it.
Wimbledon I love because I grew up with tennis. I’ve been lots of times. I love it there. I’ve queued overnight for tickets, sleeping on the pavement and ordering pizza delivered to the queue. I’ve gone up after school, getting the train up and buying ground tickets for the evening, catching the last matches before running for the last train back home. I’ve spent hours playing cards under plastic sheets waiting for the rain to stop. We were on the old number one court (my favourite) with the whole stand singing heads, shoulders, knees and toes while Cliff Richard sang on centre court. And, importantly, I was there with my friends watching one of us win the boys doubles in 1995. He’s playing again tomorrow, and I wish him luck.
I don’t really follow tennis much any more, but even so, I could happily spend the next 2 weeks on the sofa, watching the matches. With Pimms.
Years ago we got a cat. We had given it a name, but it didn’t quite fit her. During the first couple of days, we were drinking Pimms and the cat would walk along the back of the couch in an effort to bury her head in our glasses of Pimms. Hence, her name quickly became Pimms.
28 Jun 2006 at 11:55 am
Oh yum, I love Pimms too. But made with lemonade and fresh mint, with ice-cubes.
I’m impressed you made it to Wimbledon so often, it was one of those things that I always wanted to do when I lived in London but never happened.
28 Jun 2006 at 3:56 pm
he won today so has a another go tomorrow. by the time I retire Martin will be a coach in some far remote little club and I will never have experienced the delights of Pimms in the NEW players lounge! Too busy doing sports mornings (no hats thank god) unfotunately had to eat rice tonight as no potato and spoon race!
28 Jun 2006 at 9:36 pm
Pimms is a great name for a cat! Our cats were (are) gordon and ginny, and then guinness – there’s a bit of a theme there.
My pimms is made with lemonade too, but it’s nice with ginger ale instead. I love stickling loads of fruit in it as the boozy fruit is so nice ot eat afterwards.
29 Jun 2006 at 11:23 pm
It’s funny how we name our pets. Many years ago I named my 2 cats Rissole and Marmite … Sorry to digress.
07 Jul 2007 at 7:53 am