There is nothing like staying in, on a wet gloomy day, with a cup of hot coffee and chocolate biscuits and watching the rain pelt down through the windows. Trust me - I'm doing just that at the moment and it's heaven!
Speaking of hot coffee, I must say that getting a hot cup of coffee isn't all that easy as its been made out to be. For a bachelor anyway. Or maybe it's just me. Anyway, a hot cuppa requires a couple of things - coffee (naturally), milk, sugar and hot water. Now then, I don't have any of these things lying around simply because they are perishables and I don't own a fridge. The hot water situation is easily solved with an electric kettle, but how does one get around the milk-coffee-sugar problem? The answer is, you buy one of those pre-mixed coffee sachets from Nescafe or Bru (minus sugar). Then all you need to do is empty the sachet into a cup, pour the hot water in it and stir with a spoon and, voila! Coffee. Well, almost. Puritans would no doubt argue on the merits of such a faux cafe, but for the rest of us (well some of us at any rate), this is as good as it gets.
There is only one hitch though. The local stores and shops haven't yet begun appreciating this wonderful new invention, and so I have to hunt high and low for someone keeping stock of the product, whereupon I proceed to buy half of his/her stock just so that I don't have to repeat the process again. It can be nerve wracking I tell you when you find yourself running through your last reserves and begin rationing the stuff. Sad but true.
