Tuesday 17 September 2019

A translation service for pretentious coffee shops

As you know, I don’t get out much but I do frequent the odd coffee shop, either with my befriending friend Sidney on our weekly get-togethers or with SWMBO on special occasions.
If, like me, you get a tad confused by the drinks menu on offer, I offer my translations.
Black coffee – Americano
White coffee – flat white
Frothy coffee – Cappuccino
Milky coffee – Latte
Choccy coffee – mocha
Not coffee – tea
Call me old-fashioned but all I want is a coffee – sometimes with milk.
Mentioning Sidney gives me the opportunity to give my reader some good news, for a change.
Sidney was notified earlier this year that his benefits were to be cut by almost a third.
Naturally this upset him somewhat and our weekly get-togethers focussed on this subject for some months.
I suggested he might consider an appeal against the decision as I am firmly in the “if you don’t try, you definitely want get” camp, believing that these decisions are made in the full knowledge that people affected generally moan a bit and then accept matters.
He spoke with his sister and an appeal went in. It was initially turned down so Sidney and sister took the case to tribunal.The hearing was last month – and Sidney won, with his benefits reinstated.
I wonder how many people less fortunate than us are having an even bigger struggle just to live becaiuse they did not appeal?

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