cafe crush in berlin and marmite in manhattan

darlings……

it’s been a Long Time since we had marmite.

 

so we were thrilled that they had some on the menu at the glamorous private-members-club this morning.

of course we chased it with a carrot juice (shades of the Other Coast) and a Large pot of English breakfast tea, for two (shades of the Old Country) and there was an extraordinary view over manhattan from upstairs and a lovely long conversation.

are you in town for Fashion Week? so many glamorous types have arrived – all unfeasibly tottering-on-heels and frowning delicately because they won’t take out their glasses to read the embossed invitations.

of course they were still asleep this morning while we breakfasted.

and That Crowd isn’t known for loving marmite anyway.

or toast.

especially not toast.

oh! almost forgot.

we have a new cafe crush.

we’ve not yet seen it in RL yet (but we hear excellent things about its frothy coffee and its Vinyl and sparse yet elegant Norwegian, Irish and German roots – what a delicious combination).

so if you’re in Berlin soon (oh wouldn’t that be utterly delicious? sadly we cannot travel out of the USA for a little while until Everything’s Sorted with the International Paperwork #sigh)

but if You’re in Berlin.

why not pop to our latest (virtual) cafe crush: Oslo Kaffebar

 

no marmite.

in fact no food, as yet.

just coffee.

ah, the dark embrace of caffeine.

in all its most purest, freshly ground and gently steaming in a mug with the seductive slight hiss of vinyl as the needle hits the groove.

#sigh

oh for a day in a cafe with a novel-to-write and a subtle amount of flirting with a knowledgeable barista.

About teamgloria

I used to make my living from writing. And then it all stopped and so I went and did something else, part of which entailed a whole new look from Brooks Brothers (it wasn’t really me, but it was necessary). But a decade later I started to write again (during nights and weekends and frustrated lunch-times and long haul business travel) and one of the things I wrote (or came to me – as I do believe in the whole Muse concept) was a character called Gloria. Gloria was a trainee angel and sat “up there” waiting for her first assignment. To occupy the hours she should have been studying humans and their foibles, she spent her time enjoying the new celestial movies-on-demand channel and became obsessed by Doris Day. So you can imagine the drama that unfolded when she came to Earth. Quite a shock to the system. But Gloria was determined to see Manhattan through the eyes of a vintage Doris Day movie and something magical started to happen – to me too. Because I started to do the same thing and life became easier (and then I got Tobias the tumor which changed the trajectory, for now). There are a lot of glorious people, places & things that help me get through my day – they make my life great – and so I call them “team gloria” (although they don’t usually know that). So I thought I’d start documenting them, and looking out for new people, places & things on a daily basis, and sharing them with you (whomever you are – do say hello. Oh, and tell me who your team gloria is :-)
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