Mike is visiting for the weekend and we spent part of the afternoon down at Lower Moor Farm picking sloes to make sloe gin. The collection process was semi-arduous, as was pricking the individual sloe berries with a bramble thorn before adding them to gin. Neither of us really like gin, but somehow we couldn’t pass up this opportunity to take advantage of all these sloes. I think it’s more about living off the land than drinking gin. Not that sloe gin is required to sustain life, but it might be a nice way to coast through the cold English winters (that’s how long it will take for the sloes to dissolve into the gin and make it yummy enough to drink).
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