Hello everyone! I mean, I was pretty set on getting this blog post up by mid-afternoon, but hey ho, you know how these things are. This year has been an absolutely insane year (in mostly good ways), which I'll touch on more in my New Years post (keep your eyes peeled for that in a few days time!), but the one thing which will never change is spending Christmas Eve with the family in our favourite place: Stratford upon Avon. I mean, look at how wonderful Stratford is. No wonde

Okay, enough of the poetic heading Izzy. I’m not actually that talented to write an ‘ode’ to this subject, this is just something I briefly wanted to touch upon again. I say again since I wrote a post similar to this a few years back now (cue feeling old). It detailed a civil war in the coffee industry regarding independent and chain shops, and how it seems to be commonplace that if you enjoy one you most likely will not visit the other for some strange reason. I basically o