The third day of London Cocktail week and between the rushing around, the drinking and my cold still hanging around I'm ready for a week in bed!

So I get the day off to a slow start with some more of my knitting. Fortunately it was easy for me to work out where I left off last time. That few hours of learning I put in the other day have really paid off.

But time draws on and I have to get out of bed and get going- there's fun to be had and drinks to be tasted.

My first port of call is back to the lovely Quintessentially Soho for a talk by the bitters company The Bitter Truth.

I am rapidly falling in love with bitters and after trying a few I manage to pop into the amazing Gerrys on the way to my next event to stock up on a couple of bottles.

Onwards then to the Cuckoo Club for a talk on "juleps, cobblers and sours".

All of these drinks use whiskey, and over the course of the next hour or so, we are treated to seven different cocktails, or varieties of the same cocktail.

I am not a big whiskey fan, especially not sweet bourbon, but some of these are lovely. I especially love the Mint Julep (ok, maybe the fact they are served in lovely cups helps) and the Velvet Elvis.

Obviously I am unable to drink all 7 drinks, but enjoy tasting them all at least.

But knowing the day is still young, and I have one more event tonight, I head off for some food at Fish Works.

As the evening draws in I head off to West London to find Sipsmiths, a small distillery set up in 2008 making gin and vodka.

The whole evening takes place in the one room of the distillery which contains Prudence (the beautiful copper still) and shelves of intriguing bottles and jars labelled with names such as "Bone hole" and "Shiso Shock".

The event begins with a tasting of the two different spirits and I fall in love with the gin immediately.

Over the course of the evening we learn about making syrups, cordials, sloe gin, cocktails and a multitude of other drinks. I also have my first attempt of using a Boston shaker and am relieved when it goes well.

Unfortunately as time goes on, we are enthusiastic about mixing drinks, but have no ingredients other than a bottle of gin and the bitters I have bought earlier.

This does us for a while and then we notice the bowls of nibbles.

With all this talk of making your own alcohol and adding unusual ingredients we soon put two and two together and invent our very own cocktail.

We name it "Potato on the beach".

It is simple to make as it just contains gin and crisps.

I have to say (though we had consumed a lot of alcohol by then) that it tasted very nice.

Unfortunately by then we'd eaten all the parmesan and chorizo and our further experiments will have to be saved for another day.