Greetings, foul friends!
Now that we’re into the second half of the year, it only seems fitting that we start preparing for Halloween. Forget your spring lambs and flowers in bloom; think morbidity, decay, and extended darkness. Actually, think pumpkins, comfy sweaters, and sipping Black Lodge Potions in front of a roaring fire. Oh, how we love this time of year!
Okay, we may be jumping the gun here slightly, it is only July after all, but you can’t blame a ghoul for dreaming (especially the sipping Black Lodge Potions in front of a roaring fire part). A few of us went into the woods at the back of the Lodge a few nights ago and did just that. Unfortunately, Frank the alien (actual name) can’t handle his alcohol very well, and his drunken slurrings inadvertently conjured up a fire demon. We’ve only just managed to put out the last of the bushfires that started, and Frank hasn’t shown any of his six faces in public since.
Never a dull moment at the Black Lodge, friends…
FESTIVALS
Below is a list of the various festivals we’ll be attending this month.
No, that’s not what you humans call a “typo”- we really are doing both days at two completely different festivals in one weekend! Why? Well, because we get to see the way your human face scrunches up with pleasure when you try out our delicious flavoured gin… but mainly because one of the venues is at a place called Weston-under-Lizard.
What a glorious name! How big is the lizard, by the way? It must be big to have an entire townliving under it. In fact, it sounds almost as big as the horned variety that Skarraxx the Mighty rode into battle to defeat her Krungian oppressors over 300 centuries ago on the planet Llik. That was a good post-battle celebration, we can tell you…
Anyway, we digress. We’ll see you there, fleshlings.
Don’t forget to bring a bag of flies for the lizard. If it’s not hungry, Cousin Renfield will happily take them off your hands..
12th and 13th: Tettenhall Dine & Devour, Wolverhampton
19th and 20th: Great British Food Festival, Knebworth House
22nd to 24th: Waterside European Market, Stratford-upon-Avon
26th and 27th: Great British Food Festival, Weston Park, Weston-under-Lizard, Shifnal
26th and 27th: Malvern Three Counties Food and Drink Festival, Worcestershire
31st: Kenilworth Market, Kenilworth
RECOMMENDATIONS
We know you love our handcrafted-award-winning gin, so why not share the love?
Let all your friends and family know that we have 5 incredible flavoured gins available on Amazon, but if they don’t want to take the plunge and purchase a big bottle just yet, they can get the 5cl gift pack or the blood bag pouches from The Spirit Shop. Alternatively, they can come and visit us at one of the in-person events mentioned above and sample all of the flavours before deciding on one.
But we want more places to start serving our delightful concoctions, so you can have your favourite tipple while you’re out enjoying yourselves. So, if you’re in your local restaurant or bar, or out watching the football, F1, rugby, or tennis, and the establishment you’re in doesn’t stock Black Lodge Potions, ask them to get in touch, and a member of our sales team will be with them as soon as they’ve finished sweeping the crypts. We run a tight ship here, you know!
UNTIL NEXT TIME…
Well, that’s it for now, mortals. We’re off to clean our ashy footprints out of the grand hall carpet before Mistress Arat-nalla sees them. Honestly, if you think werewolves have a temper on them, try speaking to an undead 6,000-year-old Sumarian woman when Coronation Street is on. Put it this way, we haven’t seen Great-Aunt Hag since she asked the Mistress where the Penguin biscuits are while Deidre Barlow was getting banged up for murder. Coincidentally, a very nice “overstuffed” armchair was delivered to The Lodge the very next day…
We’ll see you again in one full moon cycle, but until then…
Stay spooky,
Brother G and Brother T
