Routine is good,routine is healthy,we all need it and this is a great excuse to do what I do three mornings a week.We all need a little 'me-time' in a public place as opposed to just sitting at home and having 'me-time.' It's 7:30am and I have to be at work by 9am or thereabouts. I use the word 'work' loosely and is in no way intended to imply that any kind of hard graft is involved; my hours are 9am til 12 noon, three days a week on alternate days...See what I mean!
Cappuccino consumption three days a week roughly equates to four hundred euros per year. 'Yikes!' I hear you say, but lets put this into perspective:Coffee in moderate quantities is really good for you. I'll 'Google-it' in a minute.
'Cappuccino ready'
'Thanks Chris'
I drop a few cents into the tip cup( Its the thought that counts)and make my way to my regular soft leathery settee where I always sit...always.
Cappuccino consumption three days a week roughly equates to four hundred euros per year. 'Yikes!' I hear you say, but lets put this into perspective:Coffee in moderate quantities is really good for you. I'll 'Google-it' in a minute.
'Cappuccino ready'
'Thanks Chris'
I drop a few cents into the tip cup( Its the thought that counts)and make my way to my regular soft leathery settee where I always sit...always.
My laptop really is a piece of crap; the lid hinge is about to give up creating intermittent screen flicker(oh my eyes!!), the battery only charges to 21% then miraculously uses this up in three minutes. The RAM is barely able to handle the typed word, causing regular screen freeze, etc etc.The point has been well made for the desperate need for a new laptop but my apologies for going off the beaten track.
The coffee is steaming, the laptop is plugged in and the skies are increasingly darkening overhead; the floor to ceiling windows provide an unobstructed view to the world. November usually brings little rain but this year looks more than promising. What do I mean promising? Yes, that wet stuff is what we need here; the parched land has been deprived for too long and if water cuts are to be avoided then we need a sustained deluge. Enough of the clear liquid let's talk about the dark velvety brown liquid. How did we ever live without the Internet? Search "coffee benefits"
The froth on my cappuccino gently caresses my upper lip as I carefully sip through it and make contact with the good stuff below. I'm not an "eat froth from the spoon" kind of guy, in fact I think that the only purpose for said topping is to insulate the hot beverage and to protect it from kamikaze flies; so if a small fly should get stuck in the froth, removing it is simple and avoids contaminating the actual coffee- brilliant!
Going back to coffee benefits, we can glean the following interesting facts:
A study of 126,000 people in the US over a period of 18years has shown that two cups of coffee per day can lead to:
1. 25% reduction of colon cancer
2. 80% reduction of liver cirrhosis risk
3. 50% reduction of gallstones risk
4. risk of type 2 diabetes reduced by single digits( 6 or more cups reduced this by 54%).
Apart from this ,as if all the above wasn't good enough, coffee can help to reduce headaches, improve your mood and even help to prevent dental cavities. All this makes 400 euros per year sound cheap and I for one won't be giving up the drink of the Gods any time soon!!
The froth on my cappuccino gently caresses my upper lip as I carefully sip through it and make contact with the good stuff below. I'm not an "eat froth from the spoon" kind of guy, in fact I think that the only purpose for said topping is to insulate the hot beverage and to protect it from kamikaze flies; so if a small fly should get stuck in the froth, removing it is simple and avoids contaminating the actual coffee- brilliant!
Going back to coffee benefits, we can glean the following interesting facts:
A study of 126,000 people in the US over a period of 18years has shown that two cups of coffee per day can lead to:
1. 25% reduction of colon cancer
2. 80% reduction of liver cirrhosis risk
3. 50% reduction of gallstones risk
4. risk of type 2 diabetes reduced by single digits( 6 or more cups reduced this by 54%).
Apart from this ,as if all the above wasn't good enough, coffee can help to reduce headaches, improve your mood and even help to prevent dental cavities. All this makes 400 euros per year sound cheap and I for one won't be giving up the drink of the Gods any time soon!!
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