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English law may ignore February 29th entirely, but it's still four years until the next time I can post a blog post on the day, so here it is. An appropriate return to this forum, I think we can all agree.

Did you know Leap Day has it's own official cocktail? Oh yes: here it is!

• 1.5 oz gin


• 0.5 oz Grand Marnier


• 0.5 oz sweet vermouth


• a squeeze of lemon.

Shake with crushed ice and pour into a chilled cocktail glass.

You must never order a Leap Day cocktail by name. I have no idea why, but you really, really mustn't apparently.

Some more curious (i.e. mainly dull) facts about Leap Day:

• It was invented/decreed by Julius Caesar. Who also decided to name the seventh month of the year after himself whilst he was fettling with the structures of time. A calendar-stylee two-fer, as it were.


• Century years were made leap years if they were divisible by 400. So, 2000 was a Leap Year, but 1900 was not.


• It was St Patrick who first decided women should be allowed to propose to men on February 29th.

I will be back with a fuller update of things what have been going on over the weekend. There's Christmas photos and all sorts