Vodka for the soul and socks for the soles

Warm your cockles this Sunday with the new Social Suicide Sock, some winter-weight suits and Ketel One vodka at Callooh Callay, Rivington St. between 6 & 10pm… Socks? Vodka? Ear, whachauptonow?

Well, it seems Ketel One have hooked up with the nation’s best cocktail bars to “celebrate a rare breed of modern gentlemen who are adapting traditional craft making skills for the 21st century”. That’s us. Modern gentlemen. I’d better shave.

And the SS Sock. The ménage à trois of socks – a pair of three; left, right, middle; two to use, one to loose; one, two, free! Birthday, Christmas AND Easter all at once. However you sell it, three’s got to be warmer than two and besides, if you buy two “pairs” you get three. See?

So, come and join us for some smashing vodka cocktails, clean up on your Christmas shopping with our socks, indulge yourself with a new suit and then head on over to see the other ”talented men”: Nik Roope’s doing stuff with old vases and lampshades and his new Plumen light bulbs at The Old Shoreditch Station; Addie Chinn and Paul Tvaroh are mixing type-writing and molecular cocktails at Lounge Bohemia; and Blue Logan is creating some life sized murals in LoungeLover.

Smashing!

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How was your two minute silence?

Every year I get all philosophical and melancholy on the 11th Nov. This year especially so as we’ve just returned form a mini world tour, India and South Africa especially. What an incredibly fortunate life we lead and yet it is so easy to forget to remember. Given to us by the labours and sacrifices of our forefathers.

And why’s it so damn difficult to find a poppy?

Remember, remember the month of Movember…

I’m afraid to announce that I will be growing a moustache for the month of November – bad news for me, bad news for my wife, bad news for my friends, in fact bad news for almost anyone in visual proximity. But most of all, bad news for prostrate cancer.

The Movember Foundation, raises more money for prostate cancer than any other source outside of government simply by encouraging men to grow a sponsored moustache for the month of November. I’m not sure exactly how much (amusingly, their site seems to be blocked by the Indian service provider I’m using here in Goa, so it’s difficult to get the exact stats) but they raise a lot.

And, to help things along, not only are we donating our top lips but, Si and I have coughed up a suite of spotless white and gold Kalashnikov jackets for their launch parties. Although it seems that Hywel hasn’t quite got the hang of pressing his – see below.

Finally, if you could dig to the bottom of your pockets, ourselves and men’s internal bits worldwide would be very grateful if you could help raise some money by following this link

In the photo: AJ, Antony in the pulpit and Hywel in the foreground at their UK launch at One Mayfair, London.