Thoughtful Tuesday

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The Art of Coffee

It wouldn’t take a genius to work out that I’m a gal who likes a brew, whilst tea is most often my beverage of choice, I am partial to the odd coffee. Yesterday a friend texted me about a previous conversation we’d had discussing Japanese “kawaii” characters. I know that sounds like a tangent but stick with me reader, as I sat watching the milk settle in my coffee earlier today and thinking about the shapes it settled in I realised there was probably heaps of Kawaii milk foam art. A quick search confirmed it so I thought I’d share with you a few of my favourites:

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Well, time to pop on the virtual kettle again. What will it be reader, tea or coffee? Will you use a mug or will only a cup and saucer do? Does your coffee have to be a skinny soya decaf cappuccino with an extra shot from only fairtrade beans or will instant do?

Things I Love Thursday

Well, it’s been a while since I made a tilt post but we all know that it pays to turn your mind to things that make you grateful. Here are some of the things that have made me smile recently, especially when I’ve felt like everything was just a bit too much

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Tonight I am very excited for an old school friend. Jason Manford is going to her house for his supper. He put a request up on his facebook account asking if any Muslims fans fancied sharing their Iftar with him tonight. She replied and after a brief chat she received a message from his PA saying to send her the address and he’d be over about midnight. She’s really looking forward to it so I hope he shows and that he’s everything she wants him to be.

My gorgeous niece and nephew deserve a special mention. They both did very well in their end of term reports and I love receiving lots of fun pictures of what they are getting up to on their summer holidays.

Also on my list is sneaking film quotes into day to day conversations. In truth I’d actually be equally happy, if not more so, if anyone recognised the quotes but for now I shall just be amused by their reactions. The perhaps most blatant opportunity arose while trying to get the youthlings I work with back onto the topic they were meant to be discussing. One lad in particular just kept piping up with random facts (it later became apparent he’d been watching a lot of QI on Youtube since finishing his AS level exams) and was finally interrupted himself by another lad:
Other lad: What’s with you today?
Me: Yes, Yesterday you were normal and today you're like the Chinese guy from the Karate Kid.
On an Empire Records theme I also managed to sneak ‘Does Axel have a jack’ into a conversation a couple of the girls were having about Connor Maynard & Justin Bieber and their many demerits.

Postcards from wonderful friends- I’ve always been a big fan of snail mail but I’ve received some especially brilliant postcards recently.

Honourable mentions: Cranberry & Camembert burger, ‘You are My Vision’, Summer sunshine finally (yes it’s been hot and yes reader sometimes it felt like I was melting but I refuse to complain about it), Benedict Cumberbatch eating his own cake head in Tokyo.

What about you reader? What’s making your list this week?

Thoughtful Tuesday

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
 - Arthur Miller

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We’re our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
— Tom Robbins

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The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes to everyone else’s highlight reel.
- Steve Furtick