Joyce Pimm, an Elms Day Centre user, lives alone and described the centre as "a lifeline".

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But amid the pitchers of Pimm's and the crazy costumes, there are some touching examples of cross-cultural sporting camaraderie.

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MSPs then quizzed Charles Gallacher, David Pimm and Maine Frerk from Ofgem, Alizeh Hussain from Citizens Advice Scotland and Rev Graham Blount from the Scottish Fuel Poverty Forum on Scotland's fuel poverty targets.

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For one thing, it was the occasion of my discovery of the Pimm's Royale, a Ritz specialty consisting of Pimm's No. 1 topped off with champagne and garnished with lots of sliced fruit and seriously potent brandied cherries.

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Fort Defiance, a few blocks north, serves up fresh pasta, small plates like chicken liver pate with bacon-onion jam, and historically-inspired cocktails like the Colonial Cooler, a twist on the Pimm's Cup that was first mixed in British North Borneo in the 1920s.

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