I don’t indulge all that often over lunches, but when the place smells kind, feels warm, offers a heated pumpkin, bococcini, pesto foccacia, along with a mean and attractive coffee, friendly efficient service and then tops it off with the Amelie soundtrack, you’ve got to be just a little bit in love.

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“Can I have a latte please?”
“That’s a very ostentatious jacket”
“(Laughs slightly) Yeah, I got it from an opshop yesterday, for $15 bucks”
“People always want to say what a bargain they got, any sugar?”
“One please”
I go and sit down on the couch in the corner and start devouring Instant Graphics before my friend Jess arrives.
“Oh, you [...]

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Apologies for surviving on coffee for the past three or so days - the posting quality indicates that although the good black stuff is a stimulant, it sort of just exists to taste nice and to keep you awake, rather than provide any kind of clarity of thought.
I must rave on about some of the [...]

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“Writing is but thinking on paper; and if you have any thoughts at all, you may commit them to writing” (Harvey Newcomb)
This is about the state of life, Terry Pratchett, music, Wordpress and a theory.
I do not think I have experienced being this settled for a very long time. Life feels really good on a [...]

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Check out Unphotographable. I am amused. It’s something I would do. Perhaps if I got my dream camera* I’d take it everywhere? It’s a bit like dreaming up some wonderful story or blog post and promptly forgetting it because you don’t have any kind of writing implement… kind of.
Speaking of photographs, check out the coffee [...]

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