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I've been experimenting with a few more flavoured vodka flavours recently, although they'd have to go some to beat the sherbert lemon one (tasted just like limoncello, but at a fraction of the cost). Cinnamon vodka was a massive successes. I left approx 12cm cinnamon stick seep in a half bottle of vodka for a week, strained it and added a little ( Read more... )

I'm house sitting for my Aunt and Uncle at the moment, and its a real treat to have a house to myself for a couple of weeks. I'm also looking after their two cats. Nala is pretty old, nearly blind and starting to go deaf, which is why the want someone actually living with her rather than having someone in twice a day to feed them, Their other ( Read more... )

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Its been an odd old week, what with idiots rioting bringing shame on this country, almost autumnal weather, Monday and Wednesday off (which was a good thing), cider tasting and tonight, a pre-season friendly. Its gone really quickly as a result. I'm also feeling a tad demob happy as I've only got three days left in office until I'm off for nearly ( Read more... )

Had a migraine on Wednesday evening. Not a bad one, thankfully, and I was able to take my meds about thirty seconds after the first symptoms appeared which helped big time! None of my usual triggers (which I do my best to avoid anyway) involved so I really have no idea what set this one off. I'm off out shortly to pick up six more doses of ( Read more... )

So, bar a walk into town for a coffee and a naughty but tasty orange and blueberry muffin I have done very little today. I had lunch with my parents, briefly (very briefly) saw my brother and have spent the rest of my time catching up on Facebook and reading fiction of differing quality ( Read more... )