Entry for 21st April, 2008

Welcome to the Blog of the Kindly Cuppa
40 Cups of Tea With 40 Friends
is my goal in life.
And it must be done before 10th July.
Click here to find out why.
If you would like to be my friend and earn a QCT (Qualifying Cup of Tea) then let me know.
No. of QCTs to date: 13
Real coffee! How I love real coffee in the morning. I think that I can handle just about anything when I have a sensuous dark Colombian first thing in the morning. And if I can have a cup of coffee afterwards that’s a nice bonus too. (Source – “The Bob Monkhouse Jokebook – 1975”)
I do like it though. It makes me feel that, instead of living in an estate on the fringes of Glasgow, I am actually taking breakfast in a French farmhouse before retiring to an attic room to write the great European novel. It is an idle fantasy, but a harmless one to muse on before guiltily burning some carbon on the morning commute.
Breakfast in a French farmhouse! Has anyone else noticed how their fantasies in middle-age are far more bourgeois and less erotic than those of adolescence. In younger days, most of my fantasies involved Claire C who sat in front of me in physics in a pleasingly tight pencil skirt. Nowadays, my idle reverie is much more likely to involve my endowment policies maturing and a little cottage in rural Bulgaria.
Although Claire, if you are reading this, you are welcome to slip into your pencil skirt and join me on the flight to Sofia.