We're playing Scrabble a lot lately! For
both of us it's a game that has quite a bit of nostalgia to it; I (David) used
to play it with my grandparents when I was a child, and Ellie did, too. It's just a nice relaxing game, but we have some funny
banter at the same time, and like a lot of things we do, it's often played over
a coffee (or, rather, the coffee is usually drunk over scrabble) in a favourite
coffeehouse or at home in the "Gwynne-Gibbons Café"!
... which was reinstated to its former
glory this weekend by a new bag of Monmouth espresso thanks to Lewis' café &
deli in Moseley. If you like coffee, hunt down some Monmouth (made in Covent
Garden, London). A friend recommended it to me many years ago and I think it's
one of the nicest coffees around - though there are a few excellent
coffee-roasters in England now. Far more than in France, surprisingly - but
that's another blog-post.
Also this week we've been spending quite a
bit of time thinking about ethics and philosophy; Ellie has been reading a book
by a hero of us both, Alan Watts - and I have come to the end for the third
time of The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. By chance, or
perhaps not, the philosophical ideas of both books crossed paths and converged
at the same time so we've been having lots of in-car and over-coffee philosophical
debates!
Oh, and... yes, I knew there was something else! How could I forget?! Someone has found his way into the
GG residence... we're seeing how he settles in with us; we hope it works out!
He's about 16 weeks old and his name's Oskar. And he's rather cute.
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