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I love coffee, in fact I am a coffee addict. I drink a lot at work during the morning, it keeps me going. I like the taste and the boost it gives my sleepy brain in the morning. I switch in the afternoons to tea with lemon.

I do not drink coffee or tea at home or at weekends although when I am out and about I will visit a coffee shop and I am picky where I get my coffee.

Back in Nottingham I will invariably visit Caffe Nero who offer you a loyalty card that is stamped with every cup you buy and once you fill the card with nine stamps you get a freebie, so that’s roughly £25 spend. Mmm, extra large, extra hot, café Mocha or cappuccino with vanilla.



My second choice of coffee shop if I cannot find a Caffe Nero, is Costa. These too have a loyalty scheme but it is a point for every £1 spent which means I have to spent over £200 to get a free coffee. Yummy extra large, extra hot cappuccino with gingerbread syrup.

Starbucks, I will only visit them as a last resort if I cannot find the others, I just don’t like their coffee much I always end up with heartburn after having coffee there. Small latte only please.

I am particular with what coffee I drink, wherein it must be low acid or South American coffee. For years I wondered why I suffered from heartburn but never connected it with coffee until one day I was talking with a coffee retailer from whom I buy my fresh coffee. It was suggested I try South American coffee as it grew in less acidic soil and thus the bean was lower in acid than the African beans. Surprisingly the South Asian coffee was not mentioned. I will have to remember to ask next time I visit him.

But my all time favourite coffee shop is not available in the UK and that is Tim Horton’s. I was first introduced to Tim Horton’s when I first visited Canada in 2003 and my friend Tricia and I had lunch at one of their branches. They make a fabulous Iced Cappuccino and their Double Double is perfect. Serve their coffee with Tim Bits (doughnut holes in many flavours) or a toasted bagel with cream cheese (preferably blueberry bagel with strawberry cream cheese) and you have me doing a happy dance. I even have my very own Tim Horton’s travel mug. that I use on my way to work in the mornings.



At Christmas I bought myself a little coffee machine for work. It makes 5 mugs of coffee, 4 for me and one for my colleague, Janet but I am now being told I am drinking too much coffee by my other colleagues, that I am getting over excited about things, restless and hyper. Am I ‘eck aslike, that’s not from caffeine that’s just me normally.

Little do they know that the coffee I brew is lower in caffeine than normal and although I seem to be drinking a lot of coffee, my caffeine intake has been lowered by half.

View from the coffee shop