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Now Christmas is coming and I'm ready to break out the festive cocktails.

Yes, wine and beer is all very well but at this time of year it's nice to step things up

and make something a little fancy although not too, as I do not want to spend my whole night

squeezing limes in the kitchen.

Well, have you heard?

Fever Tree has a new range of cocktail mixes, which I think are going to be my secret weapon at my annual friendmas.

I like to have the girls around before everything gets a bit mad, a bit of calm before the storm, if you will,

and I'm planning to treat them with

mehitos. All I need to do is add rum to fever trees

mahito mixer and stir well. You know job done. That's actually a great idea

so there's no stressing about long recipes or hunting down niche ingredients

you can never find?

Nope.

Right, well I might just add some fever tree espresso martinis to the menu this year.

Well yes, do it. All you need for those is to add vodka to the

fever tree mixer and shake. You can stock up with fever tree at Sainsbury's

waitros, Tesco and a cardo and remember please enjoy responsibly.

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