The focus has shifted entirely to the 5M Coffee business now so this blog will cease to be updated as of today.
We’re really excited by what is happening in the world of coffee at the moment so expect to see us popping up near you in the next 12 months.
Check out http://5mcoffee.com/coffeeblog or find us on Twitter @getnoticed or @5mcoffee
I’ll leave this blog online for the foreseeable future.
Mum arrives in the UK in 3 1/2 days time and we are really looking forward to her visit.
I have been in the UK for more than 7 years now and this is the first visit for her to the northern hemisphere so I hope she really enjoys it.
My wife and I have so much planned for her and every waking hour will be an adventure.
If I am unusually quiet on twitter @getnoticed or updating my blog you now know why…
Take a gander at http://5mcoffee.com/coffeeblog to see what I have been tasting today…
Today I popped along to Acorns LTC (lawn tennis club) in Canons Park to meet the members and get played in.
I have not played a game of tennis in over 10 years but had a great time and now I ache!
It won’t have helped that we were playing in 4c, but at least it was not windy or raining, just overcast with outbreaks of bright sun, from 2-5pm…
I came home for a shower (and to thaw out) and now I can hardly move.
I will sleep well tonight, but won’t be popping down tomorrow. However, I will send off the membership cheque so that I can use the courts over the summer months as well.
New members are welcome at Acorns and you can visit their site here.
We bought ourselves new tennis rackets today as my wife has a desire to play tennis this summer.
There are a number of fairly reasonable clubs in the area (pricewise that is) and we will get ‘played in’ in the next few weeks time…
I am looking forward to getting back on grass as I have not played competitively for more than 10 years and I am sure it won’t take me long to get back into a reasonable form.
Don’t worry Andy (Murray) - I’m not out to compete in your league…
I’ve done it!
Yesterday I purchased my first flat cap and have started to wear it with pride.
Ok, I am only 33 and don’t live in the country, nor own anything tweed, drive a landrover, own whippets, have a dog or farm sheep, but neither do thousands of other flat cap wearers around the world.
Whilst I was in Brugge I found my perfect flat cap, and after the months of searching it was a satisfying moment.
Perhaps a photo of me wearing said flat cap will appear here one day…
This morning we awoke early and headed out to Witham (Essex) to pick up Pheasant Paupettes for our Christmas Day Lunch.
The selection of meats and home made products at this shop was amazing and better than I have seen in the UK in the past 7 years.
All items of interest were reasonably priced and we came home with more than we intended to, including Game Pies, Christmas Mince Pies, and a desire to visit again soon!
My wife discovered Holts at the BBC Good Food Show and I’m glad she did.
The next time we are entertaining I will be making a trip to this supplier to source some choice cuts of meat.
The staff were friendly as well - was I dreaming when I visited this place?
Blogs have been neglected lately and it is all Twitters fault.
Twitter has taken micro-blogging to a whole new level of interactivity and moved towards web2.0 in ways not thought possible at the start of 2008.
I am on Twitter as @getnoticed - hence the rebranding of my blog
In the words of Twitter Whore - Follow Me!
Even though I have been in the UK for nearly 7 years I have still not lost my support for NZ sports teams - who are undisputedly amongst the best (if not the best) in the world.
We excel at Rugby, we’re not too bad at Cricket, top notch at Yachting and have pretty good Equestrian and Dressage teams, world class Golfers and Triathletes.
For a country of less than 5 million people we do bloody well!
Yesterday the Kiwi League Team did us proud with a win over Australia to take the 2008 Rugby League World Cup.
The All Blacks demolished Wales to get one step closer to a Northern Hemisphere Grand Slam in the 2008 Autumn Internationals
I’m looking forward to the next game against a bruised and battered England team.
So far this winter it has snowed in October (first time since 1934 for my area of London) and in November.
December could be a cold month and the odds have been shortened at the bookies for a White Christmas too.
With 2 trips to Germany planned in December I am pretty confident the landscape will be white at some point in our journey.
I’m now hoping we have enough snow to build a snowman, something I could not do in childhood, living in a country that had bbq’s for xmas and a trip to the beach after lunch!