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Green ginger wine

We bought a bottle of green ginger wine on Saturday. It was reduced in Marks and Spencer and I, in particular, love ginger. Especially covered in dark chocolate, but no matter.

We've both had colds but Dan has been taking a cold and flu remedy which was quite horrid - very chemically and fluorescent green. Anyway, he's invented his own remedy - juice of one lemon, large teaspoon of honey, three capfuls of green ginger wine topped up with hot water. That plus a couple of paracetamol makes him feel a whole lot better.

I didn't realise green ginger wine was alcoholic - I suppose the clue is in the name- so we're going to buy or make some ginger cordial, so we don't get into trouble. In fact, I know the very thing to warm me up after doing the outside jobs...