“Nothing too sweet,” she’d say, rolling her eyes with affection. “If I made cakes like we do back home, they’d think I was trying to kill them.”
The Patron Saint of Courgette Cake — A KAFO Story
Category: Stories & Poetry
Shattered Glass and Silver Linings: A KAFO Story
She had taken a job with Bella GoodCake, helping in the kitchen, delivering sandwiches by bicycle, and doing whatever else was needed.
Non, je ne regrette rien — A Kafo Story
Guilty as charged. The look on my face in those moments must have been as blank as a fresh Toulouse-Lautrec canvas.
The Man Who Preferred Tea — A KAFO Story
I even bought an SCA Coffee Taster's Flavour Wheel poster, privately thanking my lucky stars that I'd never tasted anything falling into the category labelled simply “Other”.
It Wasn’t Just The Coffee — A KAFO Story
Why the bamboo?” I whispered. “Does it change the science?”
The Springs of 2011
It was amateurish, unpretentious and completely unlike everything around it.
The Clean Entry — Catching The Third Wave
If a new wave of cafés had already arrived during my visits between 2007 and 2010, it slipped past me unnoticed. I wasn’t yet tuned to its frequency.
Dropping in — Riding the Second Wave
"Are you Harry?”
Catching the Swell — The First Wave
... and finally, a frantic, breathless splut-gurgle-gasp before it fell silent.
Port, Starboard and Visible Kindness
Would you like some woollen mittens? Any colour you’d like.
Ghosts to Carry, Stories to Keep 