I'm an inveterate inhabiter of coffee shops. Caffè Nero is our go-to as we often get to
to Truro, where there are two branches, and we get to the Barnstaple one quite often. The very best one for us is The Coffee Sack at the end of Scholes Lane in Prestwich. It's a bit like a pilgrimage to there when I go up north to visit my mum. The lady in charge is an absolute wonder, so friendly, and so kind to my old mum who struggles a fair bit these days. In fact, mum thinks that the lady and I have a sort of mutual "thing" going on. I wish! Don't tell Mrs Steve, but what a good idea that would be...Naturally, I'd have to consult the lady in question, thirty years younger than meself, though, well I mean, how could she resist my charms... Damn good coffee too! When I mentioned to her how good the coffee was she tried to sell me a huge sack of the beans that would have kept us going for a year or more. Sadly, coffee beans don't keep that well! Several years ago Mrs Steve and I clubbed all our Christmas money together and bought a bean-to-cup coffee machine, a Delonghi Caffe Corso, ESAM 2800. We'll never go back to any other way of having coffee. It's our main daily ritual these days!