It’s a said day today, my trusted coffee machine, the Bosch Tassimo T40, has finally decided to call it a day and refuse to produce tasty coffee for me to drink and enjoy!

After two years of making my Cappuccinos it’s decided to retire to that great coffee machine graveyard in the sky, sad to see it go and after such a short time, only two years old and it had so much of a coffee life ahead of it
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It’s been a while since I did a Wordless Wednesday post, so I thought I would post up one of my favourite past times

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As I lay in bed last night,
The jaded moon beyond my sight,
A restless dream began a-creeping,
To envelop me whilst I was sleeping.

Strange occurrence, nightly vision,
Seems to keep my brain in rhythm.
With outstanding clarity,
The dream unveils for me to see

What lies behind my crippled mind,
And all the secrets there to find.
For though I lie in quiet darkness,
My thoughts whirl ’round with utter madness.

Only when I wake do I
Become accustomed to the sky
That, bearing Light, bids me abide
The movements of my body’s tide.

So waking from a dreamy flight,
I had a sudden urge to write
About some things that oft of late
I’ve dwelt upon in different state.

Firstly let me beg of ye,
Do not take this too heavily.
For I do speak of Sorcery,
Magick, Tarot, Ceremony.

The Ace of Wands first from the deck
To forge untrodden paths beneath,
And quell the fire born of sickly
Minds whose stigma reeks of Death.

Become my partner, walk with me
Along this road to Destiny.
The Universe in my right hand,
The Fool in left is upside down.

The Magus casts a glance askew
At all these things I thought I knew.
For within these sacred cards,
My heart is bound to stable yards.

Bred like cavalry for War
To spurn a tale of wanton gore.
Blood spills forth from pore to pore,
Oh God, I do not want for more.

Be not scared, though words are whimsy,
Playing with thy sanity,
I merely seek a way to bleed
My heart upon this nascent seed.

For as I said I often dream,
And all I’ve said is naught but cream,
Upon my coffee cup that seems
To give me life in early hours

Such as these, where typing scours
The Internet to find some prey
And feast upon, then call a day
But that enchantment I delay.

I know you will not comprehend
The message I am trying to send,
For thoughts like these are beyond mend.
Enough, enough, enough, enough.

…

I need a cigarette.

That’s the stuff.

And so it ends.

Dark Blessings and Good Will to all of You.

-Angus Maiden, Caught in a Web of Insanity At 7:47am

I pour myself another cup of coffee and start to get very excited as I add milk and sugar to the dark essence of purified Heaven. I recently quit alcohol, and coffee and cigarettes have proved to be a life-saver. There’s a problem though: I couldn’t sleep because I kept feeling things crawling all over me, so I hopped on the computer and made myself a huge pot of the finest blend acquired from the lovely people at my local café (one of about 10 in the one block).

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Now I wouldn’t say that I’m a coffee-holic, OK I am and I love to drink different types of coffee from around the world, but a lot of us who drink coffee may take it just for granted, you know put the kettle on, put the coffee in the cup and add hot water and milk, worth maybe sugar to taste, but do you know the true story of coffee and where it actually original came from.

If like me you haven’t a clue where that lovely tasting beverage came from and when it was first discovered or what varieties there are in the world of coffee and why is it the national drink of the Ethiopian people then I have just the thing for you to see!

The video below will tell you about who discovered coffee and where it comes from and you may be surprised to find out how long coffee has actually been around and why at one time it became more popular than beer! Seriously can you image that.

Coffee has always been popular and nowadays you will find many types of coffee, we all socialise with friends in “coffee houses”, I myself love to meet up with friends when out and about sitting over a lovely hot coffee and spending a few hours catching up etc.

So since coffee was first discovered it’s become so popular, a drink which almost everyone enjoys, I know I do