Friday morning Coffee Stop

 Friday 3rd March 2023



I suspect these posts are going to centre around my daily visit to the local coffee shop. It was very busy this morning. There are two guys, same age, height and I knew the name of one of them but which one? Both of them were there today, and I got their names sorted. One of them poked me with his walking stick not long after I arrived and I clearly had not done a good enough job of saying hello to him. I heard him say the name for eight, he was waiting for a lift, he kept going outside to check. 

I get a lot of stick about what I wear. I had long trousers on, but a T shirt and my fleece off. I showed them how cold it is in in the UK, it’s much colder than here! There was some conversation about people working on the land, Marinos showed me a photo of people working on his phone. I then decided to order a Greek coffee. It comes in a tiny cup and what is best described as sludge at the bottom. More jokes about the fact I did not want sugar. It’s not something I would order again, I will keep with my Fredo Cappuccino I think. 


Something I have been  working on is a sentence to say I am going to the UK. But I need to explain why I am going, for example, to see friends. That adds to the complications! On Duolingo, it’s doing a lot of the words for mine, yours and so on. These words come after the thing being talked about, like “The glass is mine”. 

I saw the guy with a bad back, he is off to Sifnos Sunday. I suspect he is working, he looked like he was in a lot of pain.

Well I need time to spell check this and puts a photo in it. I am going for a walk with a friend later

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