‘Two Juliet Archers and a bag of crisps, please!’
Posted on Apr 11, 2009 under Juliet Archer's Diary |What a week. First there was the mention in the Sunday Times. Then there was the MNA shortlist. Now I’ve had a new drink named after me. Where will it all end?!
The drink was the brainchild of our friends up the road, Sarah and Niall, who’d invited us round last night to celebrate The Importance of Being Emma making the shortlist for the 2009 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance. They’d invited a few other neighbours and ‘Baby Emma’ was also there, lying contentedly on the table until I picked her up to read an extract. Not my idea, I hasten to add!
So, what is a Juliet Archer? It’s an intoxicating blend of champagne and Archers peach schnapps. Delicious from the start and even better as the evening wears on. My husband was offered a Naked Juliet - that’s also a drink, nothing to do with me! - which was champagne without the Archers.
The drinks were accompanied by canapés - or canopies, as Harriet calls them in my book. But not just any old canopies, it seems, and not even M&S canopies. Graham had caught the trout (in between vast amounts of food and drink - a real test of endurance) and had it smoked. Kay had done the rest and the result was delectable. After this little anecdote, the testosterone levels rose and it appeared that John had pulled the smoked salmon from Loch Fyne with his bare hands and Niall had wrestled an army of pigs to the ground for the Parma ham.
All in all, a lovely evening and a fitting end to the week. Thank you, S&N!
April 12th, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Ooh, a ‘Juliet Archer’ - sounds like the perfect way to celebrate. And not a drop of sloe gin in sight!
April 18th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Or if there was, I’m not telling!