Michelle's Blog Debut

Here she is. She finally made it ... Staggering, and with help from a friend and a Special Police Constable ... The Starbucks Blog is proud to present Michelle:


(More coming soon ... just waiting for the monitor to come into focus before I continue :o)

Christmas Tree!

The Christmas tree has landed. Yes, yes, I know my living room looks a bit like a Santa's Grotto ... but I like it.

Got tree? Post it here. Let's discuss and debate :o)

OK, I'll get the ball rolling by showing you our xmas tree from last year. Pretty, eh?

Paper Weebl

Fresh Weebl n' Bob. Get 'em while they're hot:

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/wab/paper/

Christmas Is Here!

It's officially now the countdown to Christmas ... well, it is in my book ... I'm buying a tree and everything!

I couldn't help but make a few minor changes to the site to give it a more seasonal feel. Oh, and I also squeezed in a subtle hint that our loyalty to Starbucks is waning.

Enjoy :o)

Pete's Ubercoffee

Weird Wide Web

OK. I'm not a cat person, but I know a good website when I see one:

http://www.stuffonmycat.com/

They have T-Shirts. I want one. Help me.

:o)

Weebl n' Bob ... in huggable form!

I think we need these for the office :o)

http://www.weebls-shop.co.uk/toys.asp?siteid=100&prodcatid=143

Erm, yeah. Coffee, muffins n' all that.

Today IMDB, Tomorrow ... Hollywood!

Hey, check me out. I did a Google search for myself (You know ... as we all do from time to time to make sure we don't have a stalker), and look what I found:

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1399408/

How cool is that?

Well, I'm impressed ... and I'm having a muffin to celebrate :o)

Where's Wolley?

Ok, a quick apology to Tom for spelling his surname wrong not just once, but twice. His real name is, of course Woolley ... and not Wolley. Sorry mate!

Missing Claire

Claire couldn't be with us today ... hence the choice of Starbucks. We did, however, find the time to send her this scary photo:

The Great Lake of Mocha

Isn't coffee great ... Especially when it's free? And that's exactly what you see here: Two free coffees: A thankyou from Costa for our loyalty. Phil went for a particularly gruesome hot chocolate with cream and marshmallows ... where as I favoured the GIANT LAKE OF MOCHA (see below).

Cake or death?

We went to Starbucks on Friday instead of Costa. We've been frequenting Costa a great deal recently and poor old 'Bucks isn't getting much of a look in. I attribute this to the large amount of influence exerted by one of our number and her insistence that Costa is better.

I have been debating the pros and cons of each over the last couple of days, and - as I said at the time - I can't really see any clear leader.

COSTA:

FOR
1) Plenty of space
2) Brand new shop
3) Comfy sofas
4) STRONG coffee (a good thing if you're not wired enough)

AGAINST
1) Crappy cups and saucers that hold a thimblefull of beverage and overbalance
2) Slow/ugly baristas
3) STRONG coffee (a bad thing if you're already wired)

STARBUCKS:

FOR
1) The lovely baristas :o)
2) Fast service
3) Proper mugs
4) Located in a bookshop

AGAINST
1) Always busy
2) Coffee not as strong as Costa
3) Catweasel & Lurch

The quality of the coffee at either venue is not in doubt. They are different for sure, but I can't say one is necessarily better than the other. The prices are pretty much exactly the same too.

All of which draws me to the conclusion that we should spend equal amounts of time in each. Perhaps we should have a meeting to discuss this?

Mensa Shmensa

I took this photo in the front lift at work. I think it's fairly self explanatory :o)


... the exams are on floor 4a, no wait ... 7 ... ah, no 6 ... yeah, must be 6 ... maybe?

And guess what: the exams were on floor 7, so they still got it wrong. Jesus, if MENSA can't figure out the floor numbering what hope have we got?!

Coffee For One

It's been a fairly boring week coffee-wise.

So boring, in fact, that I found myself staring at this arrangement on Wednesday.

One coffee. One muffin. Empty chair opposite. :o(

Despite the boredom ... and probably prompted by the downpour outside, I still spent about 40 minutes sipping away.

So where was everyone? Phil = sick, Tim = holiday, Claire = covered in mud, Michelle = shopping ... all bad planning if you ask me. I think we should have a meeting to discuss some sort of emergency plan should this sort of thing every happen again.

Come on people! Get organised!

CoffeeCAM LIVE

I've removed the video from the main page, since it was eating all my bandwidth. If you're desperate to watch it, Click here.

Ahh, coffee

Caffeine Free Holiday

Am I still allowed to post to this blog, given that I'm on holiday -- haven't been to Starbucks or Costa this week -- and haven't had a single cup of coffee?

I have to say that this caffeine-free diet makes me feel great ... but I'm only awake for 3 hours of the day. Ah well ... back to bed.

See you all next week.

It was there, I swear it!

I'm sure I read a posting here last night from Ms Wicks. Where did it go?

Very mysterious.

Anyway ... we really DID go to Starbucks today, so I can actually write about the experience. Here's what we learnt:

1. The Toffee Nut Latte is as gross as it sounds
2. The white-chocolate muffin that accompanied it lacked the moist, sticky centre I've grown accustomed to at Costa.
3. TB's Starbucks girl of choice listens to Enigma

... given that, you have to wonder why we still go. I feel a subtle name-change for this blog is on the horizon :o)

It's true :o(

Ikea

Does this look familiar to anyone in the group?

Flickr Photo taken at Ikea

:o)

iLL WiLL PreSS

I just remember about the existence of this site:

iLL WiLL PreSS - Click Here

I figured it's relevant if you watch "Coffee House Propaganda" and "Small, Medium, Large" ...

... and while you're at it, "Drugs in Your Head" is hilarious :o)

Pic of the Day

This is actually pic of the day before today ... but what the heck.

The Muffin Predictor

OK Jacqui. I rise to the challenge of the 'Muffin Predictor'.

The first problem is that I have a discernible lack of muffin photos to build such a thing. I can only see one way around this problem -- and it might involve putting on a little weight :o)

Watch this space...

BTW: Where is everyone? Tim? Claire? Phil?

Geek chic

I know this is really geeky, but this is so cool!

Right then... now I've said that, I'll get my coat.

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