yeah a bodum one for me too . I am particularly partial to a decaf cappucino but i save that for Starbucks

Used to take the trouble.  Don't any longer.  Found all that getting through the tins of Tim Hortons' too time-consuming.  I tend to avoid drinking coffee out of the house.  Too many crimes in England are committed in the name of coffee and scrambled eggs (as doubtless our American visitors will be able to tell us). 

Jim, Mark.  In Paris, Vietnamese-run place directly opposite Gare Du Nord (have I got that right?  I'm still tingling after the Little Rock blunder) is highly recommended for cafe au lait and simple cheap sandwiches. 

I'm now beginning to lean in Kingstonian's direction and drinking more tea.  Twinings.  My wife is of Irish-Liverpudlian descent and a confirmed tea drinker.

I used to go in for something called Cafe Noir.  Pure schtick, I'm sure.  My wife's sister enjoys the distinction of being able to produce neither decent tea or coffee.  Nothing 'rube' about it, Moose.  Was given the jar of Maxwell House my mother-in-law had won at bingo (she still thinks coffee is part of some communist plot) and my other half mixed it in the jar with All-Gold.

She is not a coffee drinker.

What's been the reception of coffee in British in the twentieth century?  And its relation to tea as a choice? 

I guess there are Starbucks everywhere now.  I hate that coffee.  Those the last time I was in the smoke, there weren't many chain coffee stores -- but that was a few years ago.

Dunkin Donuts up and down New England always had good coffee, surprisingly.  I bought some at the store and it was horrible.

Is it not time we had some input on our choice of cigarette lighters, watch straps, flight bags, shavers and toilet waters?  Or, indeed, the length of our fingernails and whether we remove our nasal hairs with tweezers or a special 'gadget'?  For the record, I use 'Extract of Limes'.

Hmmmmm.

Got skills though, doing that.

*Files teeth*