Possible Clues:

• The past
• The recent past
• Days gone by certainly sad without a listener
• I accept whisky in a drop of water for a nostalgic time, perhaps
• In the past, all right on terrace before 2006
• When it snowed, as Rossetti coinage implies
• Terry eyes a transformation nostalgically in the past
• Agreed Terry disheartened listener a while back
• OK to put whisky into a drop of water in former times
• 2009?