Starbucks Christmas Drinks

Donna has made a big fuss about the Red cups, so I had to try one. I wasn't disappointed, except for the temperature, as usual. Starbucks coffee is always too cold - perhaps it is a deliberate ploy to get you to drink up quickly and leave, but if that was the case why provide comfy chairs and wi-fi links? (To encourage people with Mac portables and bandanas around their heads to sit posing in a prominent position, not realising that it just shows that they have no friends and nowhere to call home.)

The observant will have spotted that there is only one red cup (which has ice cubes in to cool down the Earl Grey Tea). Mine is the Chocolate Mint Bliss venti with cream. 

Virginia Creeper

Virginia Creeper
Originally uploaded by DerekL.

Autumn finally arrives this year half way through November. These isolated streamers of creeper on the bricks caught my eye as I was getting into the car.

Also, this is blogged directly from Flickr, another interesting angle.

Loofah

Saw this on the pavement today. Not something I've ever seen lying around before, especially in a rural Cambridgeshire village. It was over a metre long, and obviously unused.

When I showed this picture to the chaps in the office they provided me with a perfect feed by asking me if I had left it there.

I replied that I'm not in the habit of picking up scrubbers in the street. Thank you, I'll be here all week. Try the veal.