Cocktail Hour: Wu & Wu Happy Hour Kit

I know it’s a little early in the week to be thinking about cocktails, but this Wu & Wu Happy Hour Kit is so kitsch and colourful that it just makes me want to reach for the cocktail shaker and the most sugary, syrupy, gaudily-coloured liqueurs I can find in my local supermarket. The cherry-blossom patterned presentation tin contains coasters, flamingo swizzle sticks, cocktail parasols and decorations, as well as a booklet of oriental cocktail recipes (including such obscure delights as the Shanghai-tini). Priced at just £15, it’d make a fun gift for your favourite cocktail-loving lush without breaking the bank.

If you’ve still not quite recovered from the weekend, and Monday morning just isn’t the time to be salivating over kitsch cocktail accessories, then there’s also sewing and baking kits which are just as garishly-packaged and could be more your thing. But I’m not convinced by the pigtail kit, which seems a bit weird to me.