My picture of the day-Where's yours?

[rualexander]

Lamenting the demise of the Jammy Coo cafe in Lilliesleaf from the Cross Keys Inn across the road.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Lovely early morning dog walk, going to be another cracker

 

[PeteXXX]

There's a good crop of sloes this year!

 

[Toshiba Boy]

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There's a good crop of sloes this year!

Excellent, more sloe gin making then for us!

 

[guitarpete247]

30 year old shipwreck. It had been left tied up for 20 years. Then force 10 wrecked it were it now lies.

 

[guitarpete247]

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There's a good crop of sloes this year!

Must pick some this year.

 

[PeteXXX]

Excellent, more sloe gin making then for us!

Must pick some this year.

Pick your sloes, take them to ~Warner Gin ~ and they'll sort you out.... 🥂

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Pick your sloes, take them to ~Warner Gin ~ and they'll sort you out.... 🥂

We've been making sloe gin for years and still have several bottles left from the early days, that, when finally opened are bloomin' delicious

 

[briantrumpet]

I'll put two photos here for today. One of my bike diversion into Die this morning (yeah, it should be on the 'My bike on a bridge' thread, sorry!), and the other of why I'm in someone else's house tonight. I'd never seen a mountain burst into flames before.

 

[guitarpete247]

Pick your sloes, take them to ~Warner Gin ~ and they'll sort you out.... 🥂

I always make my own flavoured gins. Aldi gin + Aldi frozen cherries and little sugar. Or Frozen forest fruits + sugar. Garden rhubarb + sugar. I have some rhubarb essence but didn't need it last batch I made, I used forced rhubarb for paler pink and left it 2 months shaking weekly in 1l kilner jar.

 

[guitarpete247]

If I use 1l of gin I use 2l kilner jar so have a good bit of extra for tasting when I bottle on 1l IKEA stopper bottles. I filter twice (usually) using funnel and 1 layer of kitchen paper as filter paper.
I find coffee filters take too long and need changing several times.

 

[Toshiba Boy]

Looks like another lovely beach day ....

 

[rualexander]

The former Snoot Youth Hostel (the old church), still nestled in the border hills near Hawick.

 

[tyred]

The tranquil waters of Lough Gartan with not a cloud in the sky

 

[tyred]

I've rarely seen Lough Swilly so tranquil.