Happy Halloween, folks

It's Saturday number flibblty-mumble of the Confined Kitchen (no, I can't bear to count), and we have coincided with a festive-ish option. I am very much planning to have some Halloweeny confined cocktails tonight. A #2 Corpse Reviver is a strong possibility, because the Savoy cocktails come from actual archives and I'm biased. But so is the New York Sour from very excellent weekly cocktail newsletter The Spirits- such a cheering thing, and gives you a shopping list the week before if you want to mix along, which is sensible in these Difficult and Much-Planned Times. (Next week we need Campari, Italian vermouth and gin. I don't even need to go shopping, I feel so *prepared*.)

Plus, I've got everything for a Black Russian, which I saw mentioned as a suitable Halloween cocktail for no apparent reason other than it's dark brown, but is shamelessly delicious and less faff than the above.

I have half-heartedly mutilated a gourd in honour of the season. So. Halloween drinking? Let's do it. 

I have the small amount of leftover red wine needed to make this new cocktail btw because I stopped drinking on Friday night when the possible lockdown headlines broke. I don't know why I'm surprised that a national lockdown for England is seriously being floated. I apparently thought we were going to bibble on with the relentlessly rising tide and the three tiers and whatnot indefinitely. Derp. This is not a year to get surprised by change. What the hell the change turns out to be this week, sure. But that things are changing unpredictably? As I say, derp.

I had no November plans to move out of the radius I was in for March-July anyway (one possible site visit aside), I have all the books you could possibly need for hibernation if only I could focus on a page, and I had a serious lockdown pre-Christmas quarantine planned to allow me to bubble with my parents for the first time without being terrified I'd kill them. So I'm sort of set, whatever happens. 

But jeez, I am not ready for this again. Still. I am just not ready again.

Trying to hold on to good things. New hasthag - #UnconfinedWalks - have been lovely for two days. I hope we can keep them up, whatever comes.

How are you all doing tonight?