Coffee
Good news, chums! Coffee is good for you!
(Yes, I am avoiding reading the details, lest they undermine the news I want.)
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Thesis: coffee never tastes better then when drunk from an enamel mug, poured from a flask, while outdoors. ☕️
Just did the emergency security update on my Mastodon instance (to v4.1.3), and still have most of this cup of coffee left.
That was much easier than I was expecting.
Sadly, a birthday weekend doesn’t make me exempt from the business of being Daddy taxi for most of it: Brownies, swimming lessons (x2), Sea Lights and (joy of joys) a children’s bouncy castle party.
I will need ALL THE COFFEE. ☕️
The person sitting in front of me on the train has a coffee that smells so good it’s almost torture. ☕️
If you love coffee, this is an essential read on coffee prices - and the threat to producers it poses: Coffee Transaction Guide ☕️
Drinking today: Edgecumbe’s AA Kisii Peaberry ☕️
Study: Dark-roast coffee protects human DNA from damage:
This led the scientists to believe that regular consumption of a dark-roast coffee has “a beneficial protective effect on human DNA integrity in both men and women.”
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The creeping Starbuckifiction of Sussex
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The new Starbucks in worthing town centre[/caption]
This part of Sussex has long been a bit of a Starbucks dead zone. You had to either head along the coast to Brighton, or up to the out-of-town-ish Holmbush Centre for the Starbucks in the Next branch up there.
Well, the creeping Starbuckification of every high street continues, as Starbucks has now arrived in Worthing town centre. It was approved late last year, and opened last week:
Morning coffee
Enjoying a Tom Foolery coffee while catching up on e-mail and feeds on this beautiful morning…
Demoted by Starbucks
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From Gold to Green…[/caption]
Ah, the shame, the shame. Starbucks have demoted me. No more free extra shots for me.
The good news? I managed to go to Starbucks less than once a week last year. With some real effort, I’m sure I can beat that record - and go even less…