For all the mockery that it has received (and I admit the 2009 batch was ropey)
I would have loved to have some sort of candid camera footage to share with /OT of the last house party to which I took a bottle of the 2010 batch, which not only generated considerable interest amongst the people who saw it and tasted it, and even enabled me to strike up jovial conversation with two REAL WIMMIN. (Though I did have to admit that its manufacture involved an afternoon's frolicking down the Thames towpath)
(LongJohnBaldry, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:02, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I'm still really sad I missed an opportunity to gather sloes. Maybe next year.
Or I'll just make damson gin. I have a litre of gin in my wardrobe... I definitely need another gin night where I decide my legs have turned to gin.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:05, Reply)

Some friends who live quite close to me made a rather good batch of sloe gin
Their former Romanian flatmate also left behind a few plastic bottles of peculiar homemade grogs distilled by her uncle. Some of those were quite palatable, others I could see serving as a kind of pleasant-smelling industrial solvent.
(LongJohnBaldry, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:15, Reply)

All your friends' lives seem to revolve around alcohol.
This is probably not a bad thing.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:17, Reply)

Yes, I'm still trying to work out whether they're my friends because of their similar consumption of alcohol
Or whether their consumption of alcohol is due to them being my friends.
(LongJohnBaldry, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:21, Reply)

Being able to handle your booze is definitely a requirement to being your friend
-hangs head in shame-
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:22, Reply)

Not so...
_{(Many just find they need a stiff drink to endure me)}
I think it's just the scientists who are all alcohol-dependent through despair. The musicians I hang around with tend to drink a lot less.
(LongJohnBaldry, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:25, Reply)

i thought musicians drank a lot

( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:26, Reply)

Not as much as I expected them to
I even know one or two who have given up the stuff.
(LongJohnBaldry, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:28, Reply)

Having attempted drunk piano I can bloody see why.
You would have thought that Classicists would worship at the Altar of Bacchus...actually, for fuck's sake, yes, they really REALLY do.

I just know what happens when I exceed my alcohol limit and almost without exception it's not pretty. Though I really, really want to get drunk now. When I'm not so ill. Though being ill means I won't be able to taste things so I could just drink straight gin... hmm.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:28, Reply)

SDrunj piano is awesome!
you're shit but you really don't care. Which makes a change from being shit and caring which happens sber. In fact... *[ponders*
Nah, I can't be arsed getting out of bed.
(berk, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:39, Reply)

You are definitely sdrunj.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:47, Reply)

A bit
I am typing with my eyes mostly closed though.

EDIt - if I was really drunk, I'd be asleep - as you now know.
(berk, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:48, Reply)

Oh dear.
I've decided I'm a bit too sleepy to start on gin and I don't fancy it with flat tap-water vimto.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:49, Reply)

Gin and vimto sounds alright
needs to be cold though. The gin and cherryade Amberl fed me at sonisphere was actually quite good. It worked wwell.
(berk, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:54, Reply)

Gimto is incredible
With its help I drank about 600ml of gin in a night.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:54, Reply)

I would be willing to try this
despite not really liking gin. I must get round to trying hendirkcs at sme point soon though, it comes in a nice bottle and therefore must be alright.
(berk, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:57, Reply)

HENDRICKS OH MY GOD
The night I first had hendricks remains one of the loveliest nights I've ever had. It's fucking tasty and also reminds me of good things.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sat 29 Jan 2011, 23:59, Reply)

It's all infused with stuff
it sounds cool. But it's expensive for a bottle of something I'm not sure if I'll like, adn I can't drink my collecatble minature :(
(berk, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 0:03, Reply)

Sell it on to me.
Either that, or I'll buy a sodding bottle and you can come over and drink some.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 0:04, Reply)

I'll see what I can lay my hands on
or tempt Amberl to buy some for when we visit.
(berk, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 0:07, Reply)

I'm so excited for it.
Though I've not been back since my interview. I may get upset if I get maudlindrunk.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 0:07, Reply)

You won't get maudlindrunk
You'll be having too much fun. I haven;t been back since my interview either, which I totally faile don my ars.e :P
(berk, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 0:11, Reply)

At least I won't have to worry about bumping into my ex
It'd be much harder in Oxford than it is in London.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 0:15, Reply)

London is a big place surely?
application of maths and that dictates probability of bumping in to any one given person is quite slim?
(berk, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 0:19, Reply)

I meant the other way round :/
I'm a fucking idiot. Also we're on different sides of the river and compass.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 0:20, Reply)

Aha I see
well bollocks to him anywya. You'll be with a group of us and basking in the glow of awesome.
(berk, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 0:24, Reply)

Yeah we'll be fine
I just want to be really skinny when I next see him so he won't be able to look me up and down and ask "What happened?" next time I see him.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 0:26, Reply)

Ahhh
yeah, I know exactly where you're coming from with that one.
(berk, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 0:28, Reply)

He then followed it up with "You can still be really pretty, even though you're fat"

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 0:29, Reply)

*winces*
wht a cock. Still though. There ar epositive aspects to what he said, even if he's a knobend.
(berk, Sun 30 Jan 2011, 0:32, Reply)