I thought I might mention one totally unexpected present Roy had on his birthday last month. He didn't know about it at the time, but since then I came across the news that the new conservative government has decreed on 27th September 2010 that you can now make palinka (strong fruit based spirit) at home up to 50 litres a year. Now that did definitely cheered him up, although I am not sure that I feel quite happy about him starting to distill his own booze at home. All those years ago when the then government introduced a legal still into every village the purpose was mostly to take revenue from the process, but also to stop people blowing themselves up.
Since then, I have also thought, does this now mean that the quantity you can have distilled for yourself (only recently restricted to 50 litres a year per household) will now go up with the first 50l revenue free and the rest payable? Who knows, you never get proper detailed information in the newspapers in this country, but we will find out in due course, no doubt.
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