Ejector seat

outstripping supply and the furnace which makes the bottles was closed for refurbishment.

It led the producer to supply its spirit in clear bottles and invite customers to refill their existing branded, bottles.

Since the furnace re-opened Harris has begun catching up on a backlog of 8,000 of orders.

But as this picture of Peebles Hydro’s gin shed shows, the Borders hotel is still waiting on its new bottle arriving. THE Bottom Line was momentarily spooked when invited to sit on a familiarlooking orange seat when we called into Oli Norman’s Glasgow office to talk about the entrepreneur’s activities in the pub trade last week.

“You can sit in the Graham Norton chair,” Mr Norman said.

“Don’t worry, I don’t have any levers!” he added.