11.30am: a tipple and tour at the Redlands Estate (or perhaps Sullivans Cove instead) Tasmania is famed for its cheese, wine and, increasingly, whisky.
For example, add cucumber if you like Tanqueray, cassia bark if you like Sipsmith or seville oranges if Beefeater is your tipple.
Say M starts to take his new role a little too seriously and, instead of ordering his usual tipple, opts for a double orange juice.
The unveiling of the Baileys prize for female fiction is a reminder that the drink has proved a risky tipple for men.
In a New Statesman interview two years into his leadership of the Lib Dems, and before his difficulties with drinking had transpired, Kennedy said: I should do something about the cigarettes; I quite accept that it's bad for your health, but you know a moderate tipple is positively beneficial and, at certain times, absolutely essential.
It wants a rethink of the entire policy.The government continues to argue the case for liberalisation, saying that the actions of a small minority should not prevent Britons from enjoying a late-night tipple.
Rich drinkers prefer to tipple on premium ales or wine and spirits, so sales of the mass-market varieties are suffering.By drawing together SABMiller and Molson Coors will be better placed in the bar brawl against Anheuser-Busch, which has nabbed around half of the American beer market and which pumps out 102.6m barrels of beer a year.
And he does not pretend at all that a taste for tipple, tuck and cigarettes makes him anything other than the starkest of contrasts with the ascetic ex-marine whose job he intends to inherit.
So Diageo has created Snapp, a tipple for women in their 20s (a group brewers are desperate to woo, since they don't drink as much as young men).
Still, the retreat of other laws that tell adults when and where they may tipple gives hope as does a market increasingly hospitable to start-ups, innovation and quality.*Correction: We originally wrote that craft distillers accounted for just over 25% of the spirits sold and 45% of the revenue from spirits last year in America.
However, this way of identifying the right tipple turned out to be rather tedious.
