Competitive gin purchasing

I've back blipped for yesterday should you be interested. 

After ArcLight blipped her gin purchase, I realised we were getting a bit low in interesting gins - we have plenty of "ordinary" gin.  I went browsing, ended up ordering from a number of different places.  

It all started with wanting to support the local firm of Bullards.  They featured in the local press saying that the owner had taken out a mortgage in order to continue paying his staff.  When I investigated their website, I discovered that they are doing "gin in a pouch" which can be posted through your letter box.  When you've refilled your bottle, you post the pouch back to them for recycling - just as it is, doesn't need an envelope!

Then ArcLight recommended trying the Dingles, so I bought that - with several other bottles (in order to qualify for free postage!).  One of the other bottles is called Lind & Lime, and is distilled in Leith, so just down the road from ArcLight.

And of course, once you've started looking for a particular product, Facebook picks up on that, and so I keep getting adverts for other gins, and many of the companies are doing free postage to encourage sales - I bought the Tarquin's because I know I enjoy it, and it came with a large bottle of tonic and a small bottle of hand sanitiser.  And the Rasaay also came with tonic.

I drink my gin neat, but I'll keep the tonic for when we have visitors who want something more exciting than supermarket "own brand" tonic.