Today is actually No.1 Son’s 15th birthday.

After he’d gone to school we started on the first (1 litre) bottle of gin – about 9:00 AM.  No breakfast. This took about 15 minutes, and we started on 2nd and 3rd bottles at roughly 15 minute intervals.   (Later on we drove to Aldi and got another bottle). Fortunately we had no early visitors, so the potentially embarrassing scene of a kitchen table full of gin bottles before 10:00AM was not witnessed by anybody.

The recipe was basically a 1:2 ratio of sloes to gin.  This allows about 600ml of sloe gin to made per litre bottle.   Thus we end up with 4 litres of sloe gin in production under the stairs.  This can be bottled up and appropriately sweetened just before Xmas so various friends and family members who appreciate such things get a relatively inexpensive present and we score lots of points.

No big bash planned for the birthday boy today, but we splashed out on pizzas from Domino’s.    Also made the mistake of watching the England game.   What a load of rubbish!    I felt sorely tempted to sample the embryonic sloe gin to console myself for wasting 2 hours I’ll never get back.

Units: 0 – very good.   (OK, maybe I inhaled some gin fumes).