Morning all. It’s Friday, and that means one thing: the day’s a write-off. I can picture the scene – you’ve just woken up. You don’t feel that bad actually…oh, it’s 1:15, that’s why. Three chips have mysteriously found their way into your pyjama bottoms. Bemused and slightly horrified, you check your pockets. There’s a broken cigarette, a tattered VIP band that seems to have been stuck together by chewing gum, and finally you find your phone. Not much there – the only photo from last night is of an unknown couple kissing, and you’ve a text message received at 04:27 from the girl you’ve been running away from all night: “im horrijbly driunj.” And at the centre of this scene of destruction, right at its very heart, lies vodka…
OK, I’ll admit it. That was a very tenuous connection. Very tenuous indeed. But give me a break – I’m bound to a word count here, and have instructions not to sound like a Wikipedia article. Anyway – vodka is essentially a mixing drink. There’s no point buying good stuff. I think it’s at its best blended with fruit, or in a vodka and tonic – G & T’s urbane, edgy, left wing cousin.
Last year we made raspberry vodka (and gin): mix a 75cl bottle with about 150g raspberries and about 165g white granulated sugar, and leave for ages. If you make it at the end of this term it will be perfect for 0th week of Trinity, and very potent. Of course, there’s the skittles thing too: buy five bottles of the duttiest vodka imaginable, and five packets of skittles. Infuse each bottle with one colour of skittles (so roughly one pack to each bottle), and leave for 3-5 days, shaking when you can be bothered. The result is sweet, luminescent, and of nuclear strength. Similarly, leave Haribo in a saucer of vodka for a week – they expand to about 10 times their size, and have epic novelty factor.
