After the gym this morning, I stopped around the bays at one of my favourite cafes for a welcome coffee, after abstaining over the weekend. The good weather of the past week of so had vanished, and we were encased in misty rain and low clouds, limiting visibility and sucking the colour from everything except the bright yellow and orange lifeguard stand in the middle of Oriental Bay, pointless and forlorn, useful for only a few short days this summer-in-name-only.
Monday morning
March 13, 2017 by Mali
Unlike the sunny days we basked in last week when locals and visitors had filled its tables inside and out, today the cafe was not crowded. I had avoided it for the summer months when school holidays and cruise ships had contributed to crowded waterside cafes, and today it was just how I like it. Cosy inside, with its deliberately kitsch 70s decor, there were a variety of customers; a man on his laptop between meetings, the three elderly women catching up over coffee and cake, a few young couples, including the couple grabbing a coffee in the under cover outside tables so one of them could smoke, later replaced by a man who was simultaneously indulging his caffeine, nicotine and crossword addictions, and of course, there was me, reading, watching, and writing.
Outside and also under cover, a sleepy bulldog was curled up in the dog bed, looking ever so slightly grumpy and unappreciative when one of the staff woke him to give him a pat. He was then regularly disturbed by deliveries and customers coming and going, wearily opening one eye to check on proceedings as they walked by. He’s trying to sleep again now, his eyes closed, weighed down by his wrinkles, plump and perfect, unlike my own.
It sounds perfect… I love people watching too. What wrinkles, though? You haven’t got any! 😉 x
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I love to people watch! It sounds like a lovely way to spend some time (and your writing is so clear I can picture it perfectly in my mind)…and truly, wrinkly bull dogs are the cutest.
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A beautiful capturing of a moment. You made me feel like I was there.
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Love this post.
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What Mel said.
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Sounds lovely.
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You paint a wonderful picture with your words, Mali. I so wish I could join you for a tea or latte there & see it all for myself!
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You can you know! Escape next year’s northern winter and come visit me.
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