my week
this is not the most fun way to start a
monday
but uh i have to head down
towards liverpool street
it's like a 40 chance i'm going to
columbia next week
40 chance i'm going
end of november and a 20 chance to go
well because it's for a tv show
all the liability stuff means that i
have to get
like a bunch of shots which is why this
sucks
it's like a really strange place to have
a travel clinic but i have my
certificate of vaccination and i love
this
she gave me a lollipop for being good i
don't even really like lollipops but i
feel like i earned it and now back to
square mile it's back at work today's
always a really busy day downstairs
what's going on on monday upstairs
relatively calm and interesting things
have arrived
some capsules from
oh there we go from maxwell who's a
friend
so today's tiny knife
oh
a little note in there from maxwell 2. i
bought these on the day that they
release the pods so these have just come
out so this is a tray of nespresso
compatible capsules with good delicious
coffee inside so i've got three
different styles and decaf uh i'm going
to pull some shots of these in a minute
have a little taste i like the blue i
like the blue the other thing that
turned up that was interesting is a
subscription that i'm quite fond of it's
called stack magazine and uh
it's just like a monthly subscription
i've had it running for a long time now
they just send you a different magazine
each month you don't know what you're
gonna get and this month
it's called dirty furniture
i don't know what that is but i get a
letter telling me what it's all about in
case i'm confused i'm a big fan of stack
magazine just because it's ridiculous
and fun
maybe it's your machine let's try
so i have to order another machine so no
more pods for me for a while
and uh
yeah frustrating
day mondays
good morning i am up at stansted airport
well just outside i'm just hanging out
here waiting to pick up a couple of
italians from siminelli who are flying
in today and then we'll
terrify them on the drive back into
london slightly i'm sure
and uh
yeah
hang out with them for a little bit
today
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that was the most amazing bizarre phone
call uh
like my phone rang
and it was a lady from dubai
who had read the book
and just wanted to say
thank you
i have no idea how she got my phone
number
uh
and while
usually i would be not okay with that i
was kind of okay with that
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that was a really nice thing to do
and she's opening in dubai and she said
i should come and have coffee so i'll
probably come and have coffee
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good morning
so uh two updates one not going to
columbia this month probably going next
month if i'm going but but it's looking
reasonably likely
update two turns out i know how somebody
got my phone number because when i
foolishly converted my instagram across
to a business uh it just mapped across
my contact details including my mobile
phone number so you just had to push
contact and call and you could ring my
phone which is no longer the case
so yeah
learned a lesson now i'm going to go and
visit another coffee roasting company
called notes at their roasting space
over near blackwall
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i'm into this mug
it's a good map
i love anything topographical
so a productive visit it's always nice
to go and see someone else's roastery
because there's always something they're
doing that's interesting and different
to what you're doing everyone will
always have found a better way of doing
something and that's worth looking for
good to see fabio and alice now though i
might take this opportunity of being out
of the office to go and check out a new
cafe maybe somewhere i haven't been
before
so the goal of this vlog is not just to
leave me stood at my desk opening things
uh
that's not success that's not the point
of this but there are
one maybe two things that
are worth looking at so one i got a
weird delivery so this is from
33 books uh you might remember the 33
cups of coffee the little book there
i don't know what this is
oh
this is around the world in
40 cups of coffee
this is very nicely done
oh my
so this this is a very kind gift
um
here you go can you see this maybe i
need to
zoom in a little bit
there's like little little tasting
things
for all of the countries so you you
gonna you know
i've got to catch them all i've got to
get all of the i don't think i've had
coffee from every single country on this
map this was a very kind gift thank you
for sending it uh i shall
get that up on the wall at some point
we're going to talk about cocktails
pete who works here was very kind of
picked me up a bottle of something i
really wanted
this
is
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dirt cheap
it is it is like eight pounds fifty la
cuesta vermouth from spain
it makes
incredibly good
manhattan
like really very good manhattans when
combined with woodford reserve
and a lot of a lot of angus dora because
you can't go lightning store we'll come
back to this another time but this just
take it from me if you see this buy a
bottle of it
it's amazing i'm kind of pumped because
they also they do like a like a
reserve if you buy vermouth
buy some private preserve like it's a
little it's like a little gas in a
bottle and uh you squirt it in the top
of the bottle once you open it because
vermouth goes horribly
horribly off like oxidized vermouth is
disgusting and i hate it and people
should not serve that and they do and it
grosses me out it goes up really quickly
you should keep it in the dark you
should keep this
in the fridge
and ideally every time you take
something out of it keep it kind of like
private preserve or similar squirt a
little inert gas in there recap it and
it will last a lot longer
i need to get a podcast uploaded because
it's thursday and it's not out yet and
it is
20 to 22 so i'm late it's a good one
it's with jenny bryant so you should
listen to that
i'll stick a link to that in the notes
below and then in a minute or like in an
hour i've got to head to central london
for an educational day at the school of
life
so yesterday i was supposed to go down
to a
school of life thing which is alenda
bottoms kind of
event he writes books he does stuff
they'd they'd given us some tickets to
go to an event there but i came down
with something and i'm
now kind of feeling a little bit
gross and not quite right
so i will be uh charging into work to
make everyone else sick first thing this
morning though i might sneak in a little
later if i feel better today though i
might take the time to
do a little writing because i feel like
i haven't spent enough time writing
recently because podcasts or making
these or
work
so except a fair bit of time
so to the blog
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so i forgot my bag at francis's house
used by borough market so i have to go
down to nielsen dairy's to pick it up
where he's kindly left it for me which
is an excuse
to go and have a wander around borough
market
no coffee shop in london has a queue
like monmouth especially on market day
i say this with sadness in my heart
london cannot do doughnuts
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