Saturday, 28 January 2023

Another Day

We actually got a storm warning yesterday. Heavy rain, fog. Miserable really.

Next day the sun came out again  🌞🌞🌞🌞🌞



I do love my filter coffee, preferably vanilla flavoured.
At the end of last winter our coffee machine gave up the ghost (strange saying!)
K couldn't work his magic on it so.... he put it on a shelf. What did you think? He'd throw it away? Never. It's joined his antique treasure trove. 

Anyway ... I bought a small cafetiere . And smashed that.

So he agreed to buy a new coffee machine. After a lot of market research he bought the cheapest. 20 euros. It was made from flimsy plastic and a piece fell off straight away. He stuck that back on and it lasted another month before a valve, or something broke and as you filled it with water from the top it emptied itself out of it's bottom. 



Thank goodness it had a plastic reusable filter so I rigged it up over the glass jug, poured boiling water over the coffee and now I've got a manual coffee maker.






Anyone still got Xmas sweets?

Bet we are the only ones. Our traditional person made enough for half the island and then discovered that everyone was on a diet this year.  He's still eating them. I haven't even tasted one this year. Sometime soon mould is going to start growing on them. Then I suppose he will have to throw them....in the rubbish. Even the cats won't eat them. I wonder if goats eat honey and almond cakes.


 


I was searching for some 'thin' photos and came across this. Must have been taken about 30 years ago

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18 comments:

  1. JayCee28 January 2023 at 06:04

    Your manual coffee maker looks ideal - and environmentally friendly?
    That's a great "thin" photo. Who are those two good looking young people there????

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    1. local alien28 January 2023 at 07:13

      I hardly recognise that young couple. No one in our house looks like them .....now

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  2. northsider 28 January 2023 at 06:18

    I love 'real' coffee from our cafetiere or French Press.

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    1. local alien28 January 2023 at 07:14

      A completely different taste. Excellent coffee is an excellent way to start the day

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  3. At Home In New Zealand28 January 2023 at 11:38

    I'm not a coffee drinker but hubby was and he frequently was trying out different ways of making coffee. I think he enjoyed trying the different percolators etc as much as drinking the coffee!

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    1. local alien28 January 2023 at 13:31

      We have had different machines but none of them seem to last very long.

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  4. coffeeontheporchwithme28 January 2023 at 11:39

    Goodness, no, no Christmas treats here anymore. We have a special coffee maker called Nespresso and it uses "pods" which you have to buy online (because we don't live in a city where they sell them). So, 99% of the time, we drink instant coffee. I'm sure that would make some people shudder with disgust, but honestly, we like it. -Jenn

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    1. local alien28 January 2023 at 13:35

      We've got a Nespresso too but the water container has just sprung a leak. And we bought a replacement not long ago. The pods are expensive so that's on a shelf too.
      In the summer we drink iced coffee and that's just made with instant. It's great for summer coffee

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  5. angela28 January 2023 at 13:04

    Why do men do that. I made the rule that since I do all the cooking I choose the implements for that area of our lives. Unfortunately since K does cook that wouldn’t work for you.
    I love looking at old photos. What a lovely couple you make

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    1. local alien28 January 2023 at 13:35

      Yeh, honestly, he studied the market for two days and we ended up with the worst one!!

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  6. Tigger's Mum28 January 2023 at 13:19

    We bought ourselves a stainless steel cafetiere this year - unbreakable and double skin for insulation - so the second cup is hot too.

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    1. local alien28 January 2023 at 13:36

      Now that sounds perfect for us. Unbreakable is what I need and I do like my coffee hot

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    2. Barbara28 January 2023 at 15:50

      Thermos makes them. We bought one to take camping and use it anytime we go away. It keeps the coffee hot for a long time and seems to be unbreakable (I managed to drop it once).

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  7. sparklingmerlot28 January 2023 at 15:06

    I ditched out Aldi knock off nespresso machine because I was concerned about the landfill aspect of the pods. I bought a french press and haven't quite mastered a decent coffee. I might look at an old fashioned percolator.

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    1. local alien28 January 2023 at 23:43

      I thought ours was Nespresso but I just looked. It's the cheaper cousin Dulce Gusto. The pods are too expensive now. But the water part has cracked anyway.
      We have one of those cast iron Italian coffee things you put on the stove but it's a one cup thing. If I remember

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  8. Cro Magnon28 January 2023 at 21:58

    I often see old country folk in France still using those aluminium cones and filter papers for their coffee. Not much to go wrong with them. We have a Cafetiere which has lasted for about 30 years.

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    1. local alien28 January 2023 at 23:45

      You have your cafetiere for 30 years? Amazing. I must have broken a dozen at least.

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  9. kiwikid29 January 2023 at 23:44

    That is something my hubby would do, not the fixing or putting on the shelf, he is a throw it out kind of person, but lots of research and then getting the cheapest. Hope your coffee tastes the way you like it to. We have thin photos too, great to see yours.

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