An Odd Question......

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Does anybody have a full 1 litre bottle of Baileys around the house that they can weigh for me? The reason being is that I've nearly done all of my Christmas shopping but I haven't got anything for my friend Anne who lives in Denmark yet. Apart from a plane ticket to spend Christmas with her boyfriend in Kent I can't think of anything she'd appreciate more than a bottle of Baileys. I see Tesco have a litre for a tenner but I fear that the postage costs alone will probably be twice that amount. So before I go and buy it I'd really like to know how much it weighs so that I can check the postage on the Royal Mail website.
 
Griffin, don't alcohol outlets like Oddbins do international deliveries, like Interflora do flowers to anywhere? Like Mel says, I don't think you can DIY bottles through the post - it would have to go packed in loads of bubble wrap through a land or air carrier, which would make it uneconomic. Stores like Harrods would do it (and for considerably less than you think - their deli counter's no dearer than anyone else's, but more exotic!), because a huge amount of their trade is to overseas customers. Worth giving them a call.
 
Originally posted by Colin Phillips@Nov 25 2005, 09:50 AM
........don't think anyone on this forum would have a FULL bottle of Baileys hanging around!
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I realise that :lol: I was hoping that there may be someone as good as me who has bought things for Christmas and secretly stashed them away out of the reach of others. Nobody in this house is aware of the tins of Quality Street or Celebrations that I've got hidden :lol:
 
I bought a huge tub of 'Celebrations' to give to Mum's ward, in spite of them bursting a haematoma with a too-tight cast, permanently losing her notes, refusing to take off her wrist cast after over 2 months, leaving a cannula in her arm and sending her home, losing her new dressing gown, not emptying the catheter bag for two days, not replying to my letter of concern, ignoring my small note ditto... it was when they dropped her onto the floor when transferring her from her bed to the stretcher (to go into the nursing home) that I decided they weren't worthy of a tube of Smarties.

The helpful Social Worker (some praise for them for once) is getting a Buck's Fizz and some smart choccies, though - the only person who actually did her job quickly and effectively. And the nursing home staff look sharp as a tack, too, so the Celebrations will go to them, plus champers. It says something when the attending nurse from the home had to show the NHS staff which body harness to use to put Mum in for her hip x-ray, and then how to put her into it. :shy: We were there 'only' five hours... I seem to recall it was all rather different when she paid £4,000 to have her other hip replaced privately a few years ago. :brows:
 
Take a litre empty bottle of any make and weigh it full of water.

You wil find that they weigh the same to a gramm or two.

As an aside,i recieve three or four bottles of sprits (whisky/brandy) at xmas by post from the uk.

Good brands are packed in very robust cartons and there havebeen no problems.
 
It must be easy enough to make Bailey's for yourself, mustn't it? Just a balancing act of cold strong coffee, some sugar, light cream, and a lot of cheap vodka. Blend it up and bung it in some bottles.

We used to make all our own varieties of drinks in Saudi with the straight still liquor - peppermint flavouring for Creme de Menthe, coffee for Kahlua, and an orange, suspended until wizened, over an open 2-gallon can of the stuff made into a fabulous Cointreau. (The alcohol absorbed all the orange oils.) A few handfuls of oak chips chucked into 4 gallons made a smooth, woodsy Bourbon. Ah, the good old daze...

Anyway, I'm sure you could whisk up a home-made Bailey's in vast quantities for much cheaper than the per-bottle price. Sorry, Griffs, that doesn't help you get any to your friend, but it might give you a few happy hours in the kitchen... :D
 
Well I've decided to buy myself a bottle of Baileys tomorrow in Tesco just to see how much it weighs of course :P
 
Originally posted by krizon@Nov 25 2005, 10:13 PM
It must be easy enough to make Bailey's for yourself, mustn't it? Just a balancing act of cold strong coffee, some sugar, light cream, and a lot of cheap vodka.
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There is no vodka in Bailey's - it's a whisky base! :D
 
Ah, that would account for the strange taste.... :P :P So... as I wash shayink (hic!)... take your Lidl whisky and...
 
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