The view from my "office"

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Back out at Bookham Common for our annual sloe harvest.... Bumper crop this year! Picked enough to make about 5 bottles. In 30 minutes we had more than normally what takes us 2-3 hours.. nice!




Still a few blackberries around but too cold to grow well enough to be edible.

 

[VPS]

Back out at Bookham Common for our annual sloe harvest.... Bumper crop this year! Picked enough to make about 5 bottles. In 30 minutes we had more than normally what takes us 2-3 hours.. nice!
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Still a few blackberries around but too cold to grow well enough to be edible.
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mmmmmmm sloe gin - yummo

 

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mmmmmmm sloe gin - yummo

A very decent haul in the end...... bought 3L of gin on the way home too, ready to get going with the next batch. We might try adding some different spices this time, last time we added in some cloves and cinnamon sticks. We've put your name on a bottle.... just need to get permission from ScoMo to come collect

 

[OATEK]

The view from the home office.

And the train to work.

Yet another imported job, but not from China, from the good old USA (Baldwin Locomotive Works).

 

[drron]

From today's mobile office Norfolk Island.
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[drron]

And with the mobile office.
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And with the mobile office.
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Nice shirt!

 

[drron]

This evening's view from our NI office.Sunset that fizzled but saved by a group of gannets.
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[mrs.dr.ron]

The view from our bed. Anson Bay, Norfolk Island.

 

[Julesmac]

Wringing the neck out of the East Midlands until lockdown starts. Fairly obvious office yesterday, but for those who can't put 2 and 2 together...... it's Sherwood Forest Lots of nice autumn colours and interesting looks mushrooms all over the place! There were some nice trails to hike, we did the Wildwood Trail.
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Outlaw tree - the major oak was a perfect place for outlaws to meet, pass messages and store supplies.
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Legend has it this is where Robin Hood and Maid Marion were married
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Grr now I've got that rotten theme song stuck in my ear - 'Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen......'I assume it was from the original tv series & it's driving me mad that I can't think of the British actor's name. Curly hair and a dimple.

 

[VPS]

Grr now I've got that rotten theme song stuck in my ear - 'Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen......'I assume it was from the original tv series & it's driving me mad that I can't think of the British actor's name. Curly hair and a dimple.

Richard Greene?

 

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Richard Greene?

My claim to fame is that he came to Christmas lunch with the family where I was working as a cook in England in the early 80s. I was told not to serve him too much brandy butter

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

A very decent haul in the end...... bought 3L of gin on the way home too, ready to get going with the next batch. We might try adding some different spices this time, last time we added in some cloves and cinnamon sticks. We've put your name on a bottle.... just need to get permission from ScoMo to come collect
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@Flashback what is the difference between sloe berries and blueberries ?? To me they look mighty close - I presume tartness ?,
I have never tasted a sloe berry or for that matter sloe gin !

 

[drron]

From Mt.Pitt,NI
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[VPS]

@Flashback what is the difference between sloe berries and blueberries ?? To me they look mighty close - I presume tartness ?,
I have never tasted a sloe berry or for that matter sloe gin !

Totally different as sloes aren't berries. Sloes are very hard and you need to prick them with a needle before you marinate them in the gin. You can actually put them in the freezer and if the skins burst that suffices. The colour is usually the colour of the Four Pillars Shiraz gin

Prunus spinosa - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Flashback]

@Flashback what is the difference between sloe berries and blueberries ?? To me they look mighty close - I presume tartness ?,
I have never tasted a sloe berry or for that matter sloe gin !

One is edible, one is drinkable

Totally different as sloes aren't berries. Sloes are very hard and you need to prick them with a needle before you marinate them in the gin. You can actually put them in the freezer and if the skins burst that suffices. The colour is usually the colour of the Four Pillars Shiraz gin

Prunus spinosa - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Exactly this - we always stick ours in the freezer to 'pop' them before chucking them in with the gin.

If memory serves me right I believe @kookaburra75 was after a bottle too.

 

[ellen10]

I too thought they looked just like blueberries. Do they grow in Australia? I am am a new gin drinker having been given a bottle of ink gin earlier this year and our lime tree has a nice crop this year.

 

[kookaburra75]

If memory serves me right I believe @kookaburra75 was after a bottle too.

Your memory does serve you well - although it might be late next year before I will be over in the UK again. Please post photos of the gin though, at least that will keep me going

 

[drron]

From our bed this morning on the north coast of Norfolk Island.
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From our bed this morning on the north coast of Norfolk Island.
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Is that James Packer running - well sailing - away from the results of the inquiry into the operations of Crown?