After Blinde comments, I nod and pour a more generous helping of absinthe from the bottle into her glass, before presenting it back to her.<br/><br/>I muse aloud, "I am sure Steffy thinks I only talk about alcohol and sport, and I will probably prove that by mentioning that today is the anniversary of the end of prohibition in the USA, so Happy Anniversary! We have never had prohibition back home in Britain, although I think absinthe used to be banned, and I am sure there was a time, not too long ago, in parts of Wales, when pubs were shut on Sundays, wasn't there, Taffy?"<br/><br/>I add for Al, Kristen and any other newcomer's benefit. "Don't worry about Robbie the guard parrot, as he has been called. He doesn't bite; not usually, anyway."<br/><br/>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/thumb/9/91/Absinthe.jpg/448px-Absinthe.jpg)