Where are you?

In the heart of Herefordhire. The Latin tag which is the motto of the county translates roughly as "this fair land is the gift of God." Wonderful. And I speak as a Londoner born and bred.

During daylight week time, London; after dark and at weekends the County Borough Of Southend-on-Sea

Hi Pete, welcome aboard. I'm in Glasgow, sheltering in a smelly cave from the rain...

Deptford, South East London...

i'm here - rainy Hastings where the battle wasn't fought. I used to live in Derbyshire, it was always misty even in summer.

in sunny clapton in east london...

Oxfordshire.

London

sometimes (right now) in Lincilnshire sometimes (in a few days) in the Czech Republic

they throw me out of lincolnsire occasionally because my spelling is dreadful.

But your poetry rocks so they let you back in again.... I'm in snooty Berkshire, where even the dogs walk with their noses in their air. I hasten to add, I do not...

hahahaha i cant even spell it right on the 2nd attempt.... and wolf, you are too kind :o)

Reading, the less snooty part of Berkshire. Though we do now have a plethora of coffee shops: Starbucks, Costa, Coffee Republic, Aroma, so someone's got loads of disposable cash. Endless mugs of mocchachinos on offer here, fish.

My local coffee shop and by extension study and writing place is Revival on Deptford High Street. It's got an art gallery in the basement which is nice and a lovely back garden with a grave stone and the friendliest sparrows in the world. The coffee is also very strong and very nice.

what do you think the next big thing from those versatile coffee machines could be? They haven't got onto malts yet I notice. How about Bournvitaccino.

Costa now do a malted chocolate-coffee frozen thingy. It costs about £400 quid a mug.

oh yes, I'd forgotten that things move slowly where I live. We've only had cappuccino a few years. These fancy drinks are expensive. You could buy a secondhand encyclopoedia or a pair of good hold-ups for the cost of a caffee latte and burnt lips.

cappuccino, espresso, normal, all the rest are just marketing. I want my coffee to be coffee not some confection that wouldn't look out of place at a childrens birthday party.

Because I get migraines (began in 1995) I can no longer drink anything like coffee and tea. I can't, however, say no to carrpacheeno (spoken in foreign accent). rather than being a sign of maturity and sophistication, cappucino is more like a coffee flavoured milkshake for those who still hanker after childhood. Mmmmm, lovely stuff. I'll riska migraine for it, anyday. Yes, you too can sit out on the local High Street with your mug in hand, and fight off a sensation of pure disbelief that you're not in Verona. Pure sophistication! And thread, misty is a such a nice way of saying 'boggy and wet.' You made my home town sound very Keats indeed.

I used to live near Matlock Bath which was once a fashionable spa. Unusually melancholic (miserable), ivy-ridden and romantic . Derbyshire didn't have a great effect on my moods though.

Amsterdam...but not in the Red Light. Shame, that...

Can confirm Andrea is ex-Red Light as I checked everyone! Chelmsford Essex.

near leicester ... and i have my own espresso machine so dont need to worry ...

Surrey (a not posh part) and I always worry... even if i don't need to...

Tamworth -where the Manifesto came from - go on you must have heard of that - didn't you do GSCE History?

I come from the moon

I come from the mountains. Does that not make us equals? I am currently in Trelleck, Wales, four trillion light years by bicycle from the nearest Starbucks, although only three miles by car.

Well, my parents live in Tintern, zyv...not very far from you at all.....Do you remember the 'Big Cat' scare in the neighbourhood recently?

Snap! My parents used to live in Tintern, or just outside it, at the top of the Catbrook Road. I do indeed remember the big cat scare, Wolfgirl, although a school friend of the boy who started the rumour reckons he is ... how shall I put this? .... not the most truthful person in the world. The jury is still out on that one!

Good stuff for a story there.... My sister runs the antique shop in Tintern..... I used to run the youth club and the other antique shop... Another rumour started this year that some guy had his dog eaten by a crocodile...enough said!

Thread - does Matlock still get four hundred bikers every Sunday? I used to go camping there quite a lot, and it was always a shock to see what is a quaint Derbyshire town suddenly full of Harleys and Dennis Hopper lookalikes.

I haven't returned to Matlock , or Matlock Bath for a couple of years. I would guess the bikes still turn up. Living there and maybe taking it for granted after a couple of years, greatly reduced it's quaintness. Once you got to know a few people it could seem very very decadent indeed.