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I don't know about coffee but Pa Snip offers a very delicious hot sausage and black pudding breakfast at his allotment shed. Included in the offer is a free gym session shovelling compost into his newly built containers. I am reliably informed that you would pay at least £99 for a similar experience on any Groupon or Amazon offer

Primrose you nutter !!!!!

Laughing my flipping backside off here

peter wrote:, but he can talk coffee until the donkey sanctuary come around and shut him up.

I'm the same if you get me started.

mmmm, coffee I think I drink too much of the stuff... I have a costa card, and get a free coffee about once a fortnight from the points I save up... so at 5 points a pound spent, that's about 25 coffees a fortnight... ok... i may be slightly addicted...

The only decent coffee I have drunk has been from Collona and Small. Everywhere else is ok, average or poor.

It is a matter of taste though, I get visitors who won't drink coffee at my home because it isn't instant,

And just to illustrate what an obsessive I am I have bought green beans and roasted my own for years, recently with coffee becoming very popular I can buy decent coffee though it has to be beans I grind myself. Most ground coffee was on its way out before it got to the shelves.

I do try everything that's available in the same way I'll try cheap wines. Always hoping for a pleasant surprise is what inspires me. The biggest surprises have been how poor (To my taste) some expensive wines and coffees can be.

Ricard with an H wrote:I get visitors who won't drink coffee at my home because it isn't instant,

Haha, I get the same instant is ok, but nothing special. Although, the flavoured instant is quite good if nothing better is available

Ricard with an H wrote:And just to illustrate what an obsessive I am I have bought green beans and roasted my own for years

well colour me jealous... I wish I had the time, patience and equipment to do that. NOTHING beats fresh roast and ground coffee

I roasted with a hot air gun using a large collander from Ikea.

There isn't any money saving in this, the benefit is roasting beans for the flavour you require though it is another black-art.

Whilst Im digressing check-out my post on potatoe art.

I was just reading your post on potato art lol