The service here is lovely, the serving women recognise me now, the smile of recognition is better than any chocolate sprinkle. Although there was a wee moment of awkwardness last week. I'd had one or two coffees at home on the Thursday morning and I feared over doing it on the caffine, so as I queued and gazed at the price board, the resolved to have a hot chocolate. The cute blonde serving smiled at me, "cappucino sir?" She ventured, "erm, no actually..." She flushed a little and my, did I feel awkward.
Today they are giving away bags of Fairtrade ground coffee, Cafe Estima Blend, it smells nice.
Hmm, is Fairtrade a brand unto itself, or an econo-political concept?
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Round our way the restricted parking hours are between 10am and noon on weekdays, when I had a job that was fine, but just in case I had a parking permit for about £37.
ReplyDeleteThe permit's run out now, but one day a few weeks before it ran out, the parking restrictions were suspended cos a neighbour was moving house and the removal vans needed somewhere to park. The traffic warden slapped a ticket on my car and cos I procrastinated for just a little too long I had to pay the £120 fine.
I was a little pissed off by this, the council already had my £37 for a permit, and £50 from the removal van company and also my £120 fine, all for the same parking space.
I don't have a spare £37 to renew my permit and I'm not going to give the council any opportunity to extract more parking money from me.