Sugar, sugar

Ah, honey honey! You are my candy bears...

Having posted this photo last night, something dawned on me. Any connoisseur of the espresso will be able to point out a couple of minor faults with the coffee here. Firstly, it has been delivered to the table with brown sugar and not white and secondly, the volume of coffee is a tad too much.

Why white sugar? Well it's simple really, it dissolves quicker. Brown sugar takes too long to go into solution and your coffee is cold by the time it has dissolved. The beauty of an espresso is that it is quick - gone in a mouthful. Get your coffee, couple of sugars, couple of stirs and down it goes.

You have to be wary of those places that offer you a double espresso (two shots of espresso, one cup) because they often give you a long espresso instead (this is one shot's worth of espresso with more water gone through it). Cheats! In fact, I often ask for two espressos to save them making a mistake. I get looked at funny, but that's nothing new. When you're in a place like Caffè Nero, they describe a "large espresso", I have no idea what this means so I steer well clear.


A fan in Iran!
I was checking my site stats earlier and I noticed that I had a visitor from the Islamic Republic of Iran! How very forward thinking of them, I thought. People in fascist Iran being able to look at blogs; the blogs of infidels in the West. Even worse, gay women infidels!!!! Whatever next? The Iranian president will be getting himself a blog to spout his bile, while pretending to be a man of the people and a good muslim who has struggled to get to the top, where he aims to guide his beloved people in their fight against the satanic west and Israel! Fuck.

Of course, the thing about Iran and other such places is that nobody else is allowed to have blogs, or they're very much the victims of censorship. I bet you have to be pretty high up in the Iranian food chain to be allowed to access blogs of gay women infidels. In fact, I'd like to bet that only the top man himself can access them.

That being the case, Mr Ahmadinejad, you'll never be popular in Blogworld unless you get some plastic bears on your site!

Of course, I shouldn't really complain about such Islamic regimes. They never do you any harm unless you're a westerner, a woman, gay or Jewish, or any other religion for that matter. They're really very tolerant and fine so long as you don't dare open your mouth.

I'm not saying that our societies are much cop, but at least we're allowed to voice our opinions and vote for change (not that it makes any difference) and live in a fairly equitable society - one that still has much to achieve, but at least it's one where we all recognise the need for fairness and equality and we're all pretty much bought into those ideals.


Four eyes
After threatening the purchase of new specs ages ago, I finally did the deed. Here they are:

I apologise for the pose. I have no idea what I was doing at the time.