Tag: Coffee!

  • Dawn of realisation

    For more than four years, I’ve been buying my takeaway coffees from the Imperial Cafe & Pub on McCallum Street, and it’s only just now that I realised why the tables and chairs are placed so that patrons who dine in get to face McCallum Street and the silver-grey office block across it. When a…

  • One plus one is…

    If you wanted a glossary of beverage definitions, go no further than Olio Dome, because their menus are like that, describing to the last drop what you might order, just so you’re never in any doubt that a beverage like a double espresso actually contains two shots of espressos and not one. Because that would…

  • Many miles to go

    And many more coffee breaks on the way I’m having a week like no other doing stuff for the wedding ceremonies. Like doing last minute arrangements with florists, last minute arrangements with the caterers, and last minute arrangements with the photographers. I read somewhere that a day’s lack of sleep can cause your IQ to…

  • Shillings

    I went for a coffee break just now, and discovered a little, oft-forgotten quirk in our coffee shops. As I was preparing to pay for my kopi-o, I wasn’t sure if the price had gone up from 50c to 60c or 60c to 70c, so I laid my coins out on the table for the…

  • That’s mean

    Marmalade Kitchen It’s no good to make fun of people when they mispronounce things. It’s the bad English karma, you know, where you end up mispronouncing something the same way as the person you’ve made fun of. I’m talking about when people say, ‘that’s mean‘, in this context: “This thing is very complicated. That’s mean…