Do you remember I picked all those sloes and bullaces and a few damsons in the autumn? And had my first go at making sloe gin?  Did I tell you that after making two jars of that someone who lives in my house said he didn’t like gin and could we do some with vodka? I really can’t remember what I told you…

Anyway he did just that and said he would label the jars….

And to cut a long story shot this was the scene in our kitchen a couple of nights ago…we think the ones on the right were the vodka, but we couldn’t be sure – and just to confuse things a little further I decided to take the vanilla beans out of the vanilla essence at the same time…. it all ended well and we have labelled the whole lot as Hedgerow tipple.

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