Category: 2013
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A few coffees in July
Black Coffee at Hart’s Bakery Sometimes Hart’s Bakery is the best thing about travel. 12-July-2013 Coming back from holiday Here is where we were, it was a lovely place and we have a rather wonderful time – I forgot to take pictures of the coffees 14-July-2013 A Tuesday, last day before […]
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Breakfast at Wallfish Bistro in Clifton
Two days ago, I had some black-looking thick and ugly mushrooms on toast at River Cottage Cafe. They were most unpleasant to look at with the grimy streaks they left on my place and weren’t exactly exploding with flavour. A week before that I had been served the most beautiful looking girolles on toast served […]
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The list of Bristol books so far, whittling down to 32
Updated: 2014-05-21 In pursuit of the best Bristol novel ever written the first stage is finding as many Bristol novels as possible. Then there will be a selection and then the tournament. The list of Bristol Novels Ames, Laurel – Castaway Archer, Jeffrey – Only Time Will Tell Barnes, Julian – The Sense of An […]
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Bristol book tournament
In Progress: last updated 09 August, 2013 07.58am And the best ever Bristol novel is … (the list so far) LA Weekly have been running a 32-book tournament to discover the best LA novel ever written and it got me thinking about the best Bristol book and how to find it. Bristol has a long […]
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Morning coffee #0019
I drank my coffee while my daughter watched Mike the Knight* on Cbeebies. The show is on for about seven minutes. I also made toast for both of us, washed some dishes, made the coffee and then sat down to check my email. By then she’d finished with Mike and we were on to the […]
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Coffee at Painswick #0018
Today’s first coffee was in a hotel at the picturesque and quaint town of Painswick. In a garden, overlooking the Cotswolds, I poured black coffee from a small white jug into my white china cup. My two-year-old daughter was not happy at having to take second place to the men I was talking to. They […]
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White coffee on a Sunday #0016
This Sunday was a busy one as I sorted out paperwork that went back years. It took hours but it was very satisfactory. 21 July, 2013
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Countdown City by Ben H. Winters
Countdown City is the sequel to the Edgar-Award winning Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters (see review here). With 77 days to go before a deadly asteroid collides with the earth, Detective Hank Palace is out of a job. The Concord police force now operates under the auspices of the US Justice Department, and Hank’s […]
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White soy mocha #0015
Today I had decaf grande soy white mocha because the nice barista made it for me. He knew my order and I’m not sure why he thinks I have decaf but I don’t mind. Also, porridge. Grande, because I forgot my travel mug. It was so hot that m kept waking so I got maybe […]
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Tweet your photo with a police officer at a Pride event
This week is Bristol Pride Week, the biggest celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender LGBT communities in the South-West. Until Sunday there will be a range of activities all over the city from film festivals and plays through to social events which aim to bring communities together and raise awareness and understanding. There will […]
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