This evening my beloved came home from work, proudly carrying a new microwave in his arms. He got a very good deal on it from work, and it IS pretty and new. It’s a Danby, 17L capacity (0.6 Cu.Ft.) It uses 700 Watts.

Ouch! With the price of groceries (coffee included) increasing, who can afford high-end coffee and espresso drinks? Even Starbucks is closing stores willy-nilly in response to declining sales! Coffee lovers are resigning themselves to the industrial brew that we get from our office coffee machines and the stuff we make from a can at home. [...]

Well its a cold rainy morning and I have just spent the last hour or so packed into a train and walking from Parliament Station to the top of Exhibition (towards Victoria Street) and have a need for agood hot coffee and second breakfast when I stumble upon Cafe Exhibition next door to “Cafe Maltitude”. [...]