iScatterling Factoid: Sloe Gin

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iScatterling Factoid: Sloe Gin by Rob the Oppressed

Below are a couple of photos of sloe berries. The berries are used to make Sloe Gin. All that the sloe gin drinkers do is go pick the berries and place them in a jar with sugar, mix in the gin to whatever ratios are required, seal the jars and then let the mix brew for 3 months. Occassional turning of the jars is required in order to release the colours and goodness from the berries.

Click the picture above to see large close-up what the sloe berries look like.

The pics I took are from a concentrated area along the Ridgeway (a section I had not hiked on before), and this avenue of bushes were laden with sloe berries. What is interesting (well to me it is!) is the lichen covered branches of the trees that face into the prevailing wind. Behind these, the trees have normal leaf foliage.

As always, an otherwise beautiful vista is spoilt by man. Destroying the view is the multi-cooling-towered power station at Didcot. Powered by fossil fuel (coal) no less that is bought in from Poland!! Yes it is cheaper than domestic coal. How do we get it so wrong?