But on Sunday I went outside! It took twenty minutes to make a journey that usually takes three, but heavens, look what was at the end of it! A very pretty cup of coffee and tiny slice of cake which makes, I am sure you will agree, a very interesting addition to my magnificent collection.
I have generously included for your enjoyment (and reference) my joint favourite, the cup of coffee from the Botanical Gardens (please note the attractive fern motif carved from the purest cocoa, probably made from beans in one of the greenhouses).
Whatever next!
16 comments:
Is it possible that the insomnia mentioned below is due to the amount of excellent cloggie coffee you are drinking?
And then there's the sugar in the cakes and biscuits to take into account.
Surely a cake has to be MASSIVE to warrant such adulation. That first effort is a puny confection.
Biscuit and gateau at the Botanical Garden? NWM, what about your low-carb-ness?
You must go to Cafe Art Java when you are in Montreal. They are so proud of their coffee and latte art that they have highlights on video screens. Yes, it's OTT, but go.
MM - you are right. I make a POINT of not drinking it after 12, and only having two cups a day. Unless it is almost every day, in which case I am usually to be found shouting BRING ME COFFEE I MUST SEE WHAT THE BISCUIT IS AND PHOTOGRAPH IT almost all the time.
Swineshead. Quality, not quantity. Truth.
CO - very good point. Cake (half of, rest fed to enormously broad veterinary man with Cake Needs) acceptable due to high amount of bicycling and gym attendance. Now it is all air and apples due to inability to go to gymnasium, ride bicycle, walk, etc.
Asta - I WENT THERE I TELL YOU I WENT THERE IN DECEMBER. It is indeed excellent. New York this weekend. It is the truth. Montreal in May. Are you there? We should have tea.
The Botanical Gardens have a Winkel. *chortle*
Oh look, pretty stones.
Yes. "Winkel" means "shop", you see.
Yes I am, and yes we should.
After having broken an ankle just before Xmas and having to hobble around in a cast for 6 weeks I totally sympathise with you! Going anywhere takes bloody ages, but a good-looking coffee and cake combo like that makes the whole thing worthwhile. The small-biscuit-with-your-coffee concept hasnt quite caught on in NZ yet, although the espresso is mostly really good.
those pictures of food look yummy!
bettersexbetterlife.com
I feel a PhD thesis coming on, "Dutch coffee and biscuits as experienced in Amsterdam 2007"
BTW please don't put the TV in ice it's dangerous, and there are too many on ice progs at the mo anyway -bet that's where you really got the sore ankle the Monkeys on Ice revival of Cats audition, introduced by Graham Norton.
I wish M & S Would produce coffe like that... yum!
Oh Christ! I deleted the last two comments cos I had pressed the button two too many times and it just repeated it. Sorry. What a crap blog commentator!
NWM, your collection is indeed dazzling - I think the top one here in particular is a superb addition.
Montreal, New York, Amsterdam! I thought it was something getting a train to Cornwall. Well, and it was. I quickly discovered the best coffee in all of St Ives, but never even thought of photographing it. Damn! (They even came with tiny homemade biscotti.)
Have a fab fab time.
Post a Comment