Thursday 3 March 2016

I like coffee

I've already burnt myself out today by writing a thousand words of ultimatum in a make-or-break attempt to secure my future, but I have a responsibility to bore you on a daily basis, so I will do my best.

Yesterday, they laid down the law, and in doing so, they moved the goal-posts so far to one side that I am not sure what position I am playing in any longer.

I awoke at 4.30, worrying. Yes, me, worrying. So I got up and formulated my response of a thousand words whilst drinking coffee. I never fail to be astounded at how a cup of good coffee can turn an ordinary person's future from a no hope to a golden one - or at least put a thick lining of silver around the darkest of clouds.

Have you ever tried coffee? I cannot recommend it highly enough.

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  1. I get the same results from red wine.

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  2. I hope your ultimatum works to your advantage. Whilst I drink coffee occasionally, the spouse-creature swears by it.

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    1. If I had a pet spider, I would call it Spouse Creature.

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  3. P and me got up independently in the night and found each other downstairs in the kitchen. We were having an alka seltzer. I wasnt sure why i was having one but i couldnt think of anything else to do. I felt happier after that. I dont really drink coffee. I am sure you felt better when you got your 1000 words down on paper. I was pleased to see your words to me earlier too.

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    1. Yes, it's good to have a plan. In my case, it is 'call my bluff'.

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  4. I've been waking also worrying. Haven't tried coffee but Icecream might do it for me, or a magnum of wine.

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  5. Hey Tom: I had a panic attack last night (see, you're not alone!), came downstairs and had a glass of milk and played Farmville 2 on the computer. Now I'm having coffee - regular plain old coffee w/sugar and milk. Even when I go to a coffee shop, I have regular old coffee - all those fancy coffee drinks either confuse or annoy me.
    I do hope your worries go away/get resolved.

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    1. I'm sorry you had a panic attack, but mine wasn't to do with panic. I am sure you will be prone to panic attacks until everything settles down nicely. Big Yellow Taxi.

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  6. Coffee certainly focuses your faculties and attention. You've practiced reason and logic on us so well that the statement is perfect.
    I remember when you wrote about hoping to get this position. It seems like being careful of what you wish for; damn wishes coming with so many attachments.

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    1. This wasn't the position I was hoping for, let alone signed up to. Thank God they didn't grant me the retainer I first asked for.

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  7. I have to have my morning coffee or else the entire day is shit. Seriously. It's the best part of waking up, as the old ad jingle used to say!

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    1. Coffee and a line of cocaine - you can't beat it, unless it is a pipe of crack. Up with the crack of dawn, etc.

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  8. Several cups of coffee are always part of my breakfast. Tea might show up later on in the day, but the ritual of French press coffee first thing is mandatory.

    I hope that your thousand words will achieve what you want them to achieve.

    Best wishes.

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    1. Thank you Frances. It's a chicken-run situation.

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  9. Etheopian is my chosen blend - not too strong. I couldn't live without it.

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    1. I too love Ethiopian, but it tends to give me stomach cramps after the first cup - not what you need in the morning.

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  10. I love a good cup of coffee ...... I just wish that I could have the coffee here that I had in Venice and Rome ..... it was perfect.
    Hope that your not so worried now Tom ..... things always seem worse in the early hours of the morning.
    😘 XXXX

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    1. I knoowwwww! When we returned from our trip to Italy (3 summers ago now), all I wanted was coffee and prosciutto. I had to change the coffee I buy and have eaten way more prosciutto than is good for anyone. Very happy though.

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    2. If they made the same espresso here that they do in Italy, I would have thre a day - but THEY DO NOT.

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  11. If I dont have my first cup of coffee of the day, I could quite happily batter a gaggle ofnuns to death with a plank

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    1. I tend to do that sort of thing when drunk, not on coffee.

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  12. Don't worry....if that is possible....worrying doesn't help....I hope things work out for you.
    I don't drink coffee at all, and have to have a whole pot of tea each morning...always a pot... I never make it in the cup/mug..that is so eeugh.

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  13. I work (and brain) only when fueled daily with three strong cups of coffee. Greetings Maria x

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  14. First thing in the morning is a strong cuppa tea, followed after breakfast by coffee (love all versions). I sporadically write a Berlin coffee blog and you'll find me often around noon at Giro.

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    1. Collecting your Giro? I thought you were a woman of means?

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  15. Despite all your moaning, it always seems to me that you have a charmed life - work that you excel at, a woman you love, a beautiful city, friends at the pub and around the world, enough money for good shoes, old glass and an annual holiday. Hope you are successful in ironing out this recent annoyance. xxx

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    1. I put a gloss on things here, and spend too much money on shoes and antiques. Other than that, I am successful... ish.

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  16. I love it. I am also terribly sorry for you in that being in a country where even the good coffee is execrable, you don't yet know what good coffee is. Never come to NZ - the coffee will make you realise how sad your coffee life has been to date. That is a terrible thing. I am a terrible person for even writing this.

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    1. When was the last time you came to the UK? Do you know how much coffee we have to choose from here? Anyway, I would never make myself execrable coffee in my own house. Jeez.

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    2. We had coffee houses in London 400 years ago. The first Stock Exchange in the world was run in London coffee houses. I have a pair of 280 year-old candlesticks which came from a London coffee house. I was buying good coffee from Soho, London, 45 years ago. I know good coffee. Christ.

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    3. Mind you, I remember a time when you could not get a good cup of coffee outside of London...

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    4. In 2011. Every single cup we had, the coffee was stale. If it's over a week old, it's stale. And or the milk was burnt. Come to NZ - for the burlesque and the coffee ;-)

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  17. I know I'm a country bumpkin, but that first hit of coffee in the morning remains Nescafé. I can't be bothered at 5.30 am to start grinding beans; as I do after nine-ish.

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  18. De-caf tea bags (using a pot) first thing even if it's at four in the am or whatever. Disc/machine fuul strenght coffee plus hot milk by 10 am, black after lunch, tea again and then de-caf instant coffee in hot milk around 10 pm. We are pleased to have Tetley bags and Kenco brought over to France for us by a neighbour.
    Wine at all other times.

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    1. Spelling and typing skills are not affected by the wine. Sorry

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    2. I would rather stay awake all night than drink de-caf. The only people I know who drink non-alcoholic beer are recovering alcoholics. Aside from that, what is the point?

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  19. Coffee always kick starts me in the morning, can't function without it.

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