Pogo

My Polaroid pogo printer is here! I managed to get one of these on the cheap through Ebay's daily deals promotion. I had only come across this by chance when I received an email from them and had previously dismissed the scheme as a naff marketing tactic and thought it would be a ploy to try and increase sales of some of the unwanted junk that inevitably ends up on there. Looking back at the RSS feeds of previous deals, I wish I'd paid a bit more attention to it as there have been some real bargains. It might be a good thing however, as having missed them means that the money is still with me rather than being wasted on something that I don't need and won't use.

On that note, I'm now considering when I'll actually use this new gadget, I had a quick look through my camera to try and find a suitable test print but decided I didn't really want to print anything on there so I still haven't tried it yet.

I met my friend in town this afternoon and had a really nice long catch up. We normally meet for a game of cards as a kind of tradition from school days. When we were in sixth form, we shared some lessons with the school opposite; this caused a bit of trouble with timetables as each school had it's own lesson times. This meant that we had a 20 minute or so gap between maths over the road and physics at our school. It became tradition for us to play cards during that time in the school dining room and when we went off to uni, we found that we rather missed the quaint little games that we had taken for granted. This time however, the sun was shining and we just spent the time reminiscing about school and 'our youth'. It sounds weird saying that when I'm still so young, but moving on in life makes you yearn for the simpler times, when there were fewer deadlines and pressures in life. Not that my life is particularly full of those things, but you know what I mean.

This time we went to Costa Coffee, the last few times we've been to Starbucks and I can safely say that I won't be going back there now that I've been to Costa. I'm not a hot drinks fan particularly and don't drink either tea or coffee. I sometimes feel that I'm not actually British because I don't drink tea but I've convinced myself that that doesn't matter, as long as I don't start giving into other cultures, I'm certainly not American if I don't drink coffee so that makes me feel slightly better.

I am however, very partial to a good hot chocolate although outside of my house and a mug of Cadbury's drinking chocolate (with full fat milk and a teaspoon of sugar) I haven't yet found a really good place to get it in the UK. Twice I've had beautiful hot chocolate in Spain of all places, the first time was served in a teapot which I greedily consumed on my own whilst the rest of the family supped on their after dinner coffees. The Costa hot chocolate was a great improvement over the Starbucks attempt though, marshmallows always make me smile more favourably and Costa certainly ticket that box, even if they were a little stale and few in number (3). I've always found that the café varieties are much to watery and much less chocolaty than I would like and that's possibly down to the horrific number of calories and fat that would be present in a decent mug. Which brings me onto another point, the container for the beverage. At least Starbucks got one thing right by serving it in a mug rather than a tall glass, I cannot see any reason why it should be served in a glass, mug - yes, cup - yes glass - no.

I think that's more than enough for tonight, If I have the energy, I may just continue this rant / expression of views tomorrow. You have been warned!