BS: Things I shall miss about the USA

Subject: RE: BS: Things I shall miss about the USA
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 10:04 AM

I am going to find out today if I can buy a machine to duplicate the stuff. Ordinary espresso machines don't hack it. Looking at my post above, I should say that "cafe Cubano" is the correct name, "colada" simply refers to the quantity of coffee bought.

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Things I shall miss about the USA
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 11:43 AM

Hamshank, I am sure that Home Depot will expand to Britain one of these days. There is a vaguely similar chain called B @ Q in Britain, but it is really for DIY customers, contractors tend to go to specialist builders merchants. The great thing about Home Depot is that it caters to amateur and professional alike.

Thank you for your good wishes !

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Things I shall miss about the USA
From: M.Ted
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 12:06 PM

Even with the machine, I think you have to have someone who is a practicing Cuban show you how to make it, Murray--If there is an embassy or consulate about, make a diplomatic visit, as it is a fair bet that someone there will be able to give instruction--

Subject: RE: BS: Things I shall miss about the USA
From: GUEST,Hamshank
Date: 07 Mar 02 - 12:38 PM

By the way, Murray, try some of that "cafe de cuba" with a few pints. Good buz. You can get drunk and be acutely alert at the same time.

HS

Subject: RE: BS: Things I shall miss about the USA
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 02 Jun 02 - 09:40 PM

Cafe Cubano seems like a faint distant memory today, and I have been too busy to think nostalgically about the States, apart from the weather.

Was Scotland always this damp and rainy when I was a lad ? I seem to remember the sun shining at least some of the time ....

Our container took forever to arrive, but at least everything was more or less intact except for my computer, which for some reason had a non-functioning modem on arrival. Finally I have succeeded in installing a new US Robotics card after two previous abortive efforts. Incommunicado for two months plus but can now make up for lost time.

I have put in two months of hard labor here and there is still a lot of work ahead to achieve what the owner and I both want, but by the end of June we should at least have built a bar, with stage and sound system, and music every night. By this time next year, I would hope that the Pinetrees Hotel will be a household name in Scotland as a folk music venue. One thing that is spurring me on is that I spoke to Janis Ian the night before I flew out and she told me she would love to play here next year, if we get it together. (Her concert in Homestead was sensational btw, what a lady ....)

Not a lot seems to have changed on Mudcat since I last visited, except everything seems more peaceful. Maybe I should stay away more often.

Oh well, off to bed now, perchance to dream of Home Depot, Guitar Center and Dunkin Donuts ....

Murray

Subject: RE: BS: Things I shall miss about the USA
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 02 Jun 02 - 09:56 PM

Ey Up Murray, Good to see you back at Mudcat, are you still trying to get to Whitby Folk Week? Say hello if you see me there, (I'm a fat bloke with a beard).Good luck with opening your new folk club, maybe we will pay you a visit sometime.john

Subject: RE: BS: Things I shall miss about the USA
From: Ebbie
Date: 02 Jun 02 - 09:57 PM

Nice to get an update, Murray. I hope you will continue to contrast the two environments for us. And for your sake, I hope that on balance you prefer your current home!

Subject: RE: BS: Things I shall miss about the USA
From: catspaw49
Date: 02 Jun 02 - 10:19 PM

Wow!!! Murray!!!!

Ya' know you ain't gotta' work all the time and we'd like more than the rare update from you........I mean you post once in a blue moon and now you expect we'll be all excited huh? Well, that's kinda' right now that I think about it........Look Fool, post more often or I'll go all nasty on your Scottish ass next time........

Spaw (sounds like you're making great progress and I'm excited for you)