12 years on. · Sunday June 25, 2006 by colin newell
Had a wonderful 12th wedding anniversary dinner at the Deep Cove Chalet restaurant with my bride.
We are in the middle of a hot spell and we got to sit on the patio by the water. Surrounded by their wonderful flower and herb gardens, all explosively in bloom, we could not have had a better experience anywhere.
Do not get me wrong folks. This is not an ad for a restuarant.
This is public service announcement for marriage.
Not just ours, but anyones.
Or anyone who is in love.
And anyone who is as in love as I am will know what I am talking about. If there is someone special in your life, let them know. Do something special for them. A random act of kindness is good too.
It does not have to be a nice restuarant or a shiny gift either.
Turn to the one you love right now and tell them how you feel.
Do it now or your keyboard will burst into flames, I promise you.
All alone and unhappy? Keep looking. There is someone out there for everyone. I am not kidding.
I waited a long time for the right partner. A long time.
Love has no expiry date. Seriously.
Oh, and by the way – the restaurant is a knock-out. If you are ever in Victoria, on Vancouver Island, make sure you consider the Deep Cove Chalet as a spot to stop.
Cheers!
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Sitting at Bubby Rose's Bakery... · Saturday June 24, 2006 by colin newell
Could be as close to heaven as possible.
Sitting at Bubby Rose’s Bakery, on the sidewalk.
With a mug of Sam Jone’s Discovery Coffee Yirghacheffe.
And one of Mark Engel’s fabulous Cinnamon Buns.
This is not one of your run-of-the-mill sticky buns folks.
This is a Mark Engels tour-de-force.
This baby contains real butter, flour, milk, cinnamon, more butter and some secret ingredients.
Imagine that with a great cup of coffee… on the avenue in historic Cook Street Village, Victoria.
Pretty girls walk by. Some with their dogs. Some with their pretty boyfriends. Ah. Cook Street village.
This is living!
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But it's a Canadian institution! · Friday June 23, 2006 by colin newell
Help me out here folks… (or folk. Could be I am down to my last reader. — life sucks when you are as dull as I am.)
But what do they put in Tim Horton’s doughnuts?
I know what you are thinking. What is coffee-guy doing at Tim Hortons anyway?
Yea. It is a Canadian institution. As Canadian as Lloyd Roberston. As trusted as Lisa Laflamme. It’s the beaver. You know it. You trust it.
Ok. So maybe it was the coffee.
The coffee.
Here is the deal. I eat a doughnut from Tim’s and honest-to-God, when it hits my stomach, it instantly reconstitutes itself into a whole doughnut again. Maybe it grows a bit. Maybe it shape-shifts into a Canadian-tire dime-bag of brass-screws. I don’t know.
All I know is, I feel like I have a 15 pound sinker-lead in my belly.
It’ll pass. Maybe I can walk it off.
Actually, Tim’s coffee is not that bad. If, perhaps, you compare it to Folgers or Chase & Sanborn or Post-um. It is not that bad.
There might just be a fleck or two of Robusta in there. Not sure of it but maybe.
I mean – my caffeine-ometer red-lines when I come out of there.
Could be the coffee and the maple-dip together.
Maybe I should chew more. The coffee I mean.
I chew the doughnut. Lots in fact.
Anyway – need to be careful when flirting with the desecration of a national monument.
Really. Really careful.
Welcome to Colin's Coffee Orphanage · Saturday June 17, 2006 by colin newell
Was walking through Victoria’s historic General Store Capital Iron and Steel.
Yea, it is an odd name for a family owned business that has been around for, I dunno, about 100 years.
Probably wrong about that.
I digress.
They have a pretty good garden centre.
Someone told me that there we coffee plants there.
I found one (with the help of a wonderful gardener-lady-staffer).
I think I got the last one. Neglected? You betcha.
No offense to the staff at Capital Iron & Steel but you cannot know the ins and outs of every single tropical plant. Or can you?
Anyway – this is day one of the adoption of Khan the new coffee plant in the coffeecrew.com orphanage.
My other coffee plant, Juan de Fuca was 4’ high but sadly neglected by Reg James (of EspressoTec) – he forced me to take it.
Glad I did.
I stumped it down to about 12” in height. After 3 monthes or so, it is now 17” in height.
Khan is 7” in height.
Anyho. Stay tuned for updated in the coffee plant.
A big hello to our 7 readers of the coffeecrew blog! Okay, so I get about 10,000 hits a month on this blog. I am sure most of those are mistaken hits. Apologies all around!
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