If I may offer some unalloyed good news as a counterpoint to all this, my plum tree - planted in lockdown - has so far this August yielded 4lbs of plums, with at least as many to come, and they are p… (View Post)

Indeed. With exactly the same tine of seriousness and mild fury. (View Post)

Nothing wrong with a teabag in a pot, mind. But it should't cost £2.50. (View Post)

Filter (or batch) is very different from instant though. It's made from beans. And then filtered. I'm not asking for them to do anything out of the ordinary. Grind the beans and make the co… (View Post)

Lack of normal coffee is a bugbear of mine. Some coffee shops do indeed do filter coffee, though often they are strangely reluctant to admit to it. But many just don't. Pret, in Piccadilly Garde… (View Post)