Must have worked out that another lockdown was coming.

I received this in the mail today. I had joined a gin club recently and this is my first parcel.  I have subscribed to receive a package once every three months. I usually have a gin and tonic in the evening, before dinner so I thought this would be a good way to try out…

Rhubarb, rhubarb!

We have a rhubarb crown that produces prolifically in our garden. I have used the rhubarb as it is blooming but I have also frozen copious quantities of it for use when it is not blooming.  Lots of good intentions to use the rhubarb but they never come to fruition.  I was looking at one…

An abundance of limes

Unlike our lack of passionfruit we have more limes than we know what to do with. There is only so much lime marmalade and lime pickle that you can consume and we have had lime tea cake, lime cordial etc. so I have now resorted to freezing the lime juice so I can make use…

Now why didn’t I think of that?

I was given two free tickets for the Rebels/Crusaders rugby match in Melbourne on the weekend and while in Melbourne we stayed at our elder daughter’s place. It was while we were there that she offered me a vodka and grapefruit cocktail as a pre-dinner drink. Well I needed no convincing and now that I…

An ice ball is an unusual gift but boy was it a good one.

One of the gifts I received at Christmas time was two of these.  You are probably wondering what it is. It is a mould for making an ice ball.  The gift included two moulds and they are really great for keeping your drink cold.  The ice seems to last for ever. This is before the…

Tuesday travels. . . . .Glen Garioch Distillery

One of the first places we visited while staying in Aberdeenshire was the Glen Garioch Distillery. (you need to be over the legal drinking age in order to access the website) You can’t visit Scotland without a visit to a distillery, or indeed several, as Iain Banks noted so admirably in his book Raw Spirit. At…