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Kate Evans

@borderminstrel

Mostly drinking cocktails to try and forget the mess we’re all in.

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Involves Becherovka, so useful and fancy. And yes, tastes good to.

07.03.2026 19:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sorry for your loss.

07.03.2026 19:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Cheers, and send my best to aunt! I have a Mellow Yellow, which is strong - a good thing, after this week. #ConfinedCocktails

07.03.2026 19:21 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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It’s time to end Britain’s first-past-the-post election lottery The Gorton and Denton by-election confirmed just how capricious our electoral system has become

Vernon Bogdanor for the Weekend FT on why FPTP can't cope with our new multi-party politics - a good read with a nice @robfordmancs.bsky.social quote in there too www.ft.com/content/38d8...

06.03.2026 17:46 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A hand with dark pink painted nails holds a cocktail glass containing a pink liquid in front of a vase of white and yellow flowers.

A hand with dark pink painted nails holds a cocktail glass containing a pink liquid in front of a vase of white and yellow flowers.

It’s been a week. Starting the weekend with this Stars & Garters. Tequila and Mezcal!

06.03.2026 18:39 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Oh dear. Hope it all sorts itself out.

03.03.2026 08:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus

I’ll be spending the day painting daffodils, I’ve also been learning a little bit of Welsh everyday for the last two months which has been challenging but fulfilling so I’m looking forward to today’s lesson.

01.03.2026 09:43 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Sometimes you need a day like that!

28.02.2026 19:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We did have some positive progress this week - I’ll email you the full story sometime soon!

28.02.2026 19:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s more medical stuff, me this time - too complicated to explain on here, but should all be fine. Emergency pipe replacement does not sound good!

28.02.2026 19:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Cheers! I have a Gardenia (a fruity, floral martini variant). It has been another funny old week, but we’re ok. Glad to see some signs of spring. #ConfinedCocktails

28.02.2026 19:08 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
A hand with pink painted nails holds a short cocktail glass containing a yellow liquid and a large ice cube in front of a vase of various pink flowers and white roses.

A hand with pink painted nails holds a short cocktail glass containing a yellow liquid and a large ice cube in front of a vase of various pink flowers and white roses.

It’s been a long week, but things are looking up, and there is a cheering by-election result to celebrate, so I have a Charente White Negroni.

27.02.2026 19:07 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sounds very good!

21.02.2026 19:41 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Big cheers to banana bread!

21.02.2026 19:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Thank you!

21.02.2026 19:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Sydenham Sunset Cocktail Recipe Discover how to make a Sydenham Sunset using Speyside single malt, Sloe gin liqueur, Rosso/sweet vermouth and Orange juice in just 5 easy to follow steps

I reckon you could probably claim the cocktail for yourselves - recipe here:

www.diffordsguide.com/cocktails/re...

21.02.2026 19:24 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cheers! I have a Sydenham Sunset (named after a New Zealand Sydenham not the south London one). #ConfinedCocktails

21.02.2026 19:16 👍 13 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 1
A hand with dark pink painted nails holds a short cocktail glass containing a large ice cube and a reddish purple liquid, in front of a vase of pink, purple and red flowers.

A hand with dark pink painted nails holds a short cocktail glass containing a large ice cube and a reddish purple liquid, in front of a vase of pink, purple and red flowers.

It’s been a funny old week: starting the weekend with this Sloegroni (a Negroni with added sloe gin).

20.02.2026 18:54 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Petition: Require all think tanks to disclose their donors, funding, and media spending Research bodies and representation of specialist interests is important when making policy. However, think tanks go beyond merely brainstorming ideas and presenting data and arguments. They can push s...

Gonna post it again...

Please give it some exposure. It might not result in anything even if it got 100K signatures, but if it doesn't get any it definitely won't and we're seeing more and more evidence rather than conjecture around these murky, opaque orgs.

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

16.02.2026 18:11 👍 145 🔁 130 💬 9 📌 9

I’ve had some good ones from
Natoora via Ocado - the thing about getting darker as the season goes on rings true as well.

14.02.2026 19:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It did feel like very much the right time to dig the glasses out!

14.02.2026 19:22 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cheers! I have a Saison l’Hiver, a bit of a favourite. It features sloe gin and pink fizz, so feels appropriate for this cold (but blessedly bright) Valentine’s Day. Also, fancy glasses! #ConfinedCocktails

14.02.2026 19:19 👍 15 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1
A hand with red painted nails holds a short glass containing a red liquid and a large ice cube, in front of a vase of pale pink flowers, including two roses.

A hand with red painted nails holds a short glass containing a red liquid and a large ice cube, in front of a vase of pale pink flowers, including two roses.

It has been an excessively rainy week, but there are rumours of sun tomorrow, and I have this Winter Berry Negroni to comfort me in the meantime.

13.02.2026 18:32 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh dear. Vertigo can be a pig to deal with.

10.02.2026 17:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Coping is good.

09.02.2026 18:47 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Close up of a small white flower, surrounded by green.

Close up of a small white flower, surrounded by green.

A clump of the same flowers.

A clump of the same flowers.

Went on #UnconfinedWalks in search of snowdrops - and were successful.

09.02.2026 13:07 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Cheers! (And see you tomorrow!) I have a Spring Green, my favourite sherry cocktail. It’s been a funny week, involving too much rain and a small fire in the yard next door… #ConfinedCocktails

07.02.2026 19:24 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
A hand with dark red painted nails holds a glass containing a dark red liquid, in front of a vase of white flowers.

A hand with dark red painted nails holds a glass containing a dark red liquid, in front of a vase of white flowers.

A Plum Adonis, using the last of my homemade plum amaretto. Delicious.

06.02.2026 18:28 👍 13 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
A large, brightly coloured flower drawn in chalk on a black wall. Text next to it reads: Trippin’ on psychedelic flowers that’s why I meditate for hours’

A large, brightly coloured flower drawn in chalk on a black wall. Text next to it reads: Trippin’ on psychedelic flowers that’s why I meditate for hours’

Don’t generally approve of graffiti, but I quite like this. From #UnconfinedWalks today.

04.02.2026 21:27 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fun fact: Al Capone funded milk pasteurization plants from his criminal revenue because his beloved niece died from drinking raw milk.

So if a notorious criminal is opposed to raw milk, maybe you shouldn't drink it.

04.02.2026 13:10 👍 309 🔁 116 💬 6 📌 0