How much is too much for a cup of coffee?

This one is a little out of my price range.
John Lewis very kindly emailed me to let me know that they have this coffee machine on clearance from £999 to £750. Cough cough splutter splutter!

To get to my nearest Starbucks or any of the others is at least a 70 mile round trip so lets just say I'm quite used to drinking instant.

It does sound very nice though apparently it creates the perfect cappuccino, latte or macchiato, you just fill it with water and fresh milk, load the coffee beans, or ground coffee and voila a nice cup of coffee.
It even does that steamy thing that they do when you have all the frothy milk.

I did have a Senseo coffee maker but it was actually the ex's (a fathers day present one year funny how he always used to get good presents and I got flowers) so that left when he did.

Ah well for now it's me, the kettle and my instant granules. If I'm honest that big thing up there looks like a whole lot of washing up to me. :D But if anyone would like me to review one I'm more than happy to give it a go...just for you ;)

There Once Was A

wee cafe in a nearby town. In fact there still is a wee cafe in a nearby town so I don't know why I started off in the past tense.
Anyway it's a funny wee place. I don't know how long it's been open, but it's certainly been open for the last 8 years that I've lived up here.


Everytime we go in there for there for a spot of lunch I think of a lot of you here and how you'd probably get a kick out of all the wee nick knacks.

You invariably have to share a booth as there are only 5 so it's a case of squidging up together on a bench.



Excuse the small person and her peace sign, cheeky monkey snuck her hand in at the last minute as I was trying to take some sneaky shots.

If it wasn't such a busy wee place I could spend a whole lot longer in here just checking out all the bits and bobs.