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Life’s too short to drink instant coffee

Category: philosophy

  • Coffee shops, cafes and restaurants

    Coffee shops, cafes and restaurants

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    On the last night of our short break in Florence last year we had dinner in the hotel restaurant because it was a Sunday and options outside were limited. Fortunately it was a very good hotel with a ‘proper’ restaurant and we were expertly looked after by Markus. I grumbled when Markus came to take…

  • I’m of an age when I think about such matters

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    It began on Thursday evening. I go to a one hour cardio exercise class expertly run by Steve Symonds. It runs for an hour, there’s generally 8 or 10 of us there and it’s good value. We chat a bit and inevitably we often talk about cardiac issues, heart attacks and blue light journeys to…

  • It’s amazing what you find when you’re not looking

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    This document dates from Dec 98/Jan 99 when we took a New Year’s break in Malaysia. We flew after Xmas, stayed for a few nights in Kuala Lumpur and then went to Penang for the New Year. We stayed in the Penang Mutiara beach resort, I know because the document was written on the back…