h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

hi, may I add you to my friends list

Hi! Yes, please do!

I realise I haven't started a friends' list...may I put you on mine when I start it?
And all this talk of agedness...I bet I'm older than you!

happy for you to do so, although it means you'll have to put up with my journal entries appearing on your page
as for age, I wouldn't like to guess, 1 of many things its hard to tell about people on the internet
I think for a lot of people the music we like in our teens/late 20s is always the most influential
although my tastes have widened since then many of my favourites still come from that era (oh, and I hate dance music )

Yes you're right about the music of my teens: it still works for me. But I'm finding some good songs around at the moment too. My parents had a dance band so I grew up with those lovely old standards from the thrities and forties

Goodnight

Goodnight, I should really go to bed but working nights has left me a little out of kilter still

Well sleep well when you do
(If you can bear to drink camomile tea it works on out-of-kilterness, but it's not everyone's cup of )

never tried it, usually stick to Assam, but maybe I should, although I am a creature of habit

Yes Assam's delicious, also Darjeeling

like most types of tea except Earl Grey and thats more because it smells like air freshener than anything else

Very true! It must be the bergamots or whatever they're called that give it that peculiar aroma and taste. But I confess to being a coffee addict (quite usual for nocturnal folk I reckon )

when I worked in an office with a percolater I used to drink ridiculous amounts of but at work here the only comes out of a machine so I mostly drink water
I do like a nice cup of real
since I got a fancy food processer for Xmas I should really try grinding the beans myself

There's an old-fashioned coffee shop not far from where I live where you can choose the coffee beans you want and have them ground in the shop. I got there just after it closed the other day and shouted through the letter-box in case there was anyone still inside and the smell of different kinds of coffee was so strong it was almost as good as drinking it.
Almost but not quite

What's your favourite bean?

not sure I really know enough to say
I shall have to get to work on correcting my woeful ignorance, any you'd reccomend I try

Well I just try whatever's on special offer. But if money were no object, Blue Mountain. Any rich roast Kenyan is good if you like your coffee strong, too. A friend gave me some Sumatran to try today (it's got a tiger on the label and promises to be *bold* but I haven't tried it yet). And good old Douwe Egberts will never let you down.

yes, I've had Kenyan and it was ok
I usually vary between whats cheap and Freetrade
mind you I usually only manage 1 or 2 'ethical' purchases a shopping trip
currently I have cheap coffee but free range eggs

Fairtrade