To the Brothers...I profer 'Frankenwine'

As Mrs. DublinWriter has been carrying out her usual cooking, cleaning, beer fetching and foot massaging duties so well, I've decided to also delegate to her the important duty of alcohol R&D.

What's this you may ask? Well, we Brothers always have copious amounts of emergency liquor stashed around something called the "kit-chen" ; basically the sort of unmanly booze we codge on various company Christmas raffles and have foisted on us by well-meaning, yet ill-informed distant elderly female relatives around the same time of the year (Sandeman port, anyone?).

My own personal problem was with red wine, and an unwanted abundance thereof. What do to? I'm rarely seen with anything other than a pint shaped glass in my hand, even if there's Jagermeister involved, so as I don't do much hob-nobbing with the big-nobs at de charity do's, I was at a total loss.

Thankfully the missus developed a substance which I've dubbed "Frankenwein", basically an ungodly concoction of parts which shouldn't work, but does.

The two main ingredients are (a) your unwanted raffle-won red-wine, preferrably of Chateaux de Finglas vintage, and (b) Tesco own brand double-strength lemon concentrate drink (about 60c per litre).

Add (b) to (a) in a 4:1 ratio and the results may astound you. Have I* just invented Man-Ribena?

* all inventions of Mrs.DublinWriter are the automatic intellectual copyright of Mr.DublinWriter.