Cup of coffee mate with a splash of Kilroy Silk I have just seen me in Starbucks coming up for 4 years ago. A smart looking chap asking someone if this was the "queue," and then spending 5 minutes trying to explain what coffee he wanted. "Skimmed milk? Sorry I don't understand."

I try very hard to the point that its a personal obsession not to talk like a yank, it is what makes me different, why would I want to change the way I speak after living in London and in Kent for the 37 years? I reckon my accent is pretty neutral, not at all Catford, most certainly not Chelsea, a general Southern England enunciation. People, well Americans like my accent so why would I change it. I so often meet Brits or other foreigners who talk just like an American. Don't do it.

Of course lift, toilet, crisps, fortnight, biscuit, pavement and petrol will get you nowhere so if one wants to eat chips and cookies or need to fill up the car or go for a pee, then granted one has to do what one has to do.

A thought for the rest of the day, do you think girls who order foo-foo drinks in Starbucks that are so complicated they must lie in bed at night rehearsing what they are going to order, are high-maintenance? This bird looks like she might be....  ¶ 15:41