Thursday went by in a flash and Friday wasn’t much better, so it’s now Saturday and this is another of those catch-up posts.
First photo is a night shot of the Christmas tree and fountains at Sneinton Market. Technically it isn’t great but it has the tree and fountains and I thought I’d be a bit festive.
The rest of the time, when I haven’t been catching up on my reading of other blogs, has been taken up with parties, Men in Sheds, sloe gin, sloe sherry, looking up recipes, tidying cupboards and procrastination.
The sloe gin is looking a bit light, though it often does in photographs, but is tasting OK. I’m also making sloe sherry this year, a drink I didn’t know existed until a couple of months ago. After bottling the gin I put the sloes back in the bottle and covered them in a bottle of Sainsbury’s sherry. Yes, it’s that simple. The choice of sherry took more time than the “making”.
In two months I expect to have a dark, sloe flavoured drink that is also good added to stews and gravies. I say “expect” but as yet I have no personal experience. For £5.50 it’s a gamble worth taking.
Meanwhile the “shed” is making progress. We now have the skeleton of a vestibule, so the wind won’t be so much of a problem from now on. We also have the stud work up for a wall to shelter us from wind from the back door. Yesterday we sited the chalk crosses on the walls where our new sockets are going to be fitted, so things are looking up. At the moment we’re using just two sockets and a rat’s nest of extension leads, which is, to put it mildly, a practical and Health and Safety nightmare.
Imagine that you are working on the lathe when someone wants to plug the kettle in. It’s rare we manage this without either the lathe going off or one of the lights going out.
Two more donated filing cabinets were delivered yesterday (meaning we have more and better cabinets in the shed than we do in the office).
By the time we come back in January it will be a lot better from so many points of view.
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Mm, I like the sound of sloe sherry. Would be good in a Christmas cake….
I have seen references on forums to using Sloe Gin on Christmas cakes, Sloe Sherry in gravy and stews and the used sloes in mincemeat and cakes so yes, I’m sure Sloe Sherry on Christmas Cake will be good. 😉
Sloe sherry? Hmmm… not a big fan of sherry, but I can get behind the sloe gin! May try to make that one day myself. Hope the sherry turns out well!
Watch this space for a sloe sherry results!
There really is nothing wrong with your titles. With all that talent in your Shed group, surely someone could sort out the electrics.
We can mend your micro-light, restore your Triumph, make you a fruit bowl, weld you a gate and judge your horses, to name but a few of our talents (none of them mine). However, when you come to commercial installations you enter a sort of Twilight Zone…