Hello, my name’s Drew Galdron. For more than 8 years now, I’ve been impersonating a renowned politician who is the current UK Prime Minister - otherwise known as Boris Johnson.
You can click here to look at my business site.
My job has become a good little earner. But what I’ve been doing with that talent has occupied so much of my time, that I found I hadn’t managed to make any time to explore my own interests, or make social connections through them.
So, as surprising as this may sound; this is the reason why I’ve started this blog. I have been part of the Pagan community for a long time, and a practicing Druid for more than 15 years. Now at the same time, I wouldn’t call myself “religious”. I’m not here to tell anyone that gods exist, in any supernatural form, with any certainty about that. I believe that our experiences of such things are entirely personal. But that’s really what this blog is all about - personal experiences. Both with drinks, and with deities.
You don’t have to be on a particular spiritual path, to have an experience with a deity. But I would certainly say, the one thing that all gods in ancient mythology are, is a connection to history; to the past of our ancestors, to the past of their lives on the land, and their societies, and also to particular creative patterns - different “songs”, you might say - certain kennings and archetypes which are beyond our human selves, and our mere mortal experiences of this world; as important as those experiences are, as well.
Drinking of alcohols has long been a part of the experience of these gods - perhaps not on every single path; indeed there are many on such paths who abstain from alcohol. For those individuals, and for any who do it for other reasons such as health, I’m intending to accommodate you too. It’s quite serendipitous in fact, that I’ve started my blog in the second week of Ramadan, the Muslim holy month, where abstaining from any alcohol one might usually drink is considered an important custom, amongst a lot of other abstinence practiced in this part of their religious calendar. But indeed, as well as my usual entries, I intend to write one in each month for now, which will review a non-alcoholic drink - the market for non-alcoholic spirits is indeed one that’s growing almost as fast as that for the most popular alcoholic spirits.
Right now, in Britain at least, the spirit that’s becoming most popular is gin.
Although gins have always been produced in a wide variety of flavours for centuries, that expanding variety has become a truly integral part of the market now. And people often want to try new and exciting aromas and tastes.
Moving straight on into my next post, I’m going to sample a unique gin from the north-west of England, which has added its local fruits and botanicals, to a gin variety which I am sure is fast becoming the hallmark of its craft producers.
I look forward to having you join me on this journey!
Come along to the next post
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