Café Culture

Anna starts young with the whole coffee thing...

Coffee-cat email

I have finally got around to setting up email accounts to go with my www.coffee-cat.org domain name. So I can now be contacted at:
I have used google/gmail and the very cool "google apps for your domain" service, which (needless to say) is free! (and pretty good, too). This enables you to use gmail webmail with the email addresses that go with your own domain (eg. the coffee-cat one above), together with quite a few other online tools like calendars etc.

And... it supports POP3, so you can access it from desktop mail clients like Outlook etc, and (finally!) I can now even access my email to receive and send via POP3 from my mobile phone - yay!

Anna Picture Update - Engineering Appreciation!

Yesterday Anna went to see IKB's wonderful suspension bridge in Clifton:

She walked right the way across it (!)

And then she went for a well earned rice cake in a local espresso house:

(Where she drank water and we had "the usual"...)

I've Got a new Coffee Machine!

Like it says in the title! A bargain from House of Fraser: £135 for a Gaggia "Selecta Deluxe" - which is basically the guts of a "Coffee", or "Carezza", or "Espresso", (£180-£200) in a lookalike casing of a "Classic" (£300), for less money. I really could've done without buying a new one right now, but I REALLY couldn't live too long without an espresso machine! (NB: It is a real bargain, but not as much of a bargain as HoF would have you think). See the specific discussion threads on Coffee Geek
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