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So in an attempt to consider what I’m really doing with my blogging malarkey, I have managed to get away from my desk and am writing this from the peace and quiet of one of the busier cafes in Oxford. Venturing to a non-alcoholic` establishment such as this is really doesn’t make sense to me, but now that I’m here I have noticed that when it comes to coffee shops we really haven’t got a clue. This is probably because coffee shops are a relatively new sight on this side of the English channel (although after ten or so years you’d have thought we’d have got it right by now). This is probably because rather than inventing our own style of coffee house (other than the traditional Eastender’s Cafe) we have decided to copy someone else.

I have regularly been on holiday to France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Holland, etc., but am yet to find a coffee shop in England that remotely resembles any found in the countries mentioned. Why I ask? Because we copied the Americans! Doh! It would be alright if we
had copied the TV screen coffee shop found in ‘Friends’ or ‘Fraiser’, but alas no. We got STARBUCKS. (I wish I could find a way to queue this song (’Starbucks’ from ‘Hi-Fi Serious’ by A), for you now!) I am bored of Americanisms entering our country. I want to move to Paris. It’s probably why I read so much of ‘La Coquette’ even though I have bugger all knowledge
in interest, fashion, or women’s opinions on these things.

Anyway, just a slight diversion… The word Blog is short for web-log. And this site really isn’t a log of sites visited on the web - but instead a musing of thoughts, things that I want to talk about. From now on I really should refer to this as a Journal. Although I am unlikely to keep this up in practice, so I apologise now! I expect to
re-define this site soon…!

Actually I have just re-read the Wikipedia definition of bolg and don’t see any reason for calling this anything else!