A couple of glasses of Pimms

A few days ago, I met up with HBH at the regular drinks event for gay bankers who work in London. We hadn't seen each other since last December, so it was good to catch up with him.

We arrive relatively early and decide to sit at the bar where we're given a drinks menu by one of the bar staff.

"We've got some good promotions on tonight guys, :-)," says the barman eagerly.

Indeed, it turns out that the drinks menu is only a list of the drinks that are on special offer. I'm always suspicions of things that are on special offer on the basis that it's often things that they can't otherwise sell, or in supermarkets it's food which is at the end of its shelf life. So I make a different suggestion:

"Since it's just about the start of summer," I say to HBH, "why don't we go for a couple of glasses of Pimms?"

"OK," he replies with a cute smile on his face, "actually I've never had Pimms so it'll be good to try it :-)."

We get ourselves a couple of glasses, full of all the usual mint and fruit that a good glass of Pimms should have, and settle down into an easy conversation. As the evening progresses I notice that HBH is actually drinking him Pimms quicker than me! A little later and we're into our second glass, and soon he has a question for me:

"So what do you think will happen with all your boyfriends," he asks, "now that you've bought boyfriend S his own house?"

"Oh I don't know," I sigh. "Actually I think I should probably stop calling boyfriend S a boyfriend because there haven't been any activities for ages."

"Well," says HBH with another cute smile on his face, "perhaps activities would be more fun if you had fun with both boyfriend S and boyfriend P at the same time :-)?"

I look at him blankly, completely stunned by the suggestion.

"Wow," he laughs, "you look COMPLETELY shocked!"

"Errr, well ... it's just that that's a thought which is so far from reality for me!" I explain. "They've never met each other of course, and judging by what both of them say they don't much like each other either."

"Well it was just an idea :-)" he replies sweetly.

I'm still thinking about the suggestion of a threesome between myself and boyfriends P and S when another idea comes into my mind:

"You know that I'm going to have to blog about this don't you!" I say, laughing now.

And in fact we've both blogged about the evening now! Judging from what HBH said on his blog, I think he quite likes Pimms :-). But of course, a glass or two of Pimms is always much better when one has the company of a charming guy like HBH!