Ramblings from a Caffe Nero...
I love sitting in coffee shops, even if I am a tea drinker. Right now I'm sitting in a Caffé Nero at the north end of Waterloo Bridge in London. I arrived early (before 0900hrs) and, in a nutshell, I'm living the dream. My dream is just this, sitting in a coffee shop, alone, killing time with a decent book - I've now finished More Die of Heartbreak by Saul Bellow , it's taken me months. I have a laptop on which I am now writing these words and I have a copy of Dave Grohl 's The Storyteller . I like Dave Grohl and now that I've finished Saul Bellow I can read his book, which is subtitled ' Tales of Life and Music '. Grohl has a certain level of respectability that I applaud; he is, perhaps, the respectable face of rock n roll with a wife and kids and parents who were both writers. Grohl was the drummer in Nirvana , and he plays guitar, and let's not forget the band he heads up, the Foo Fighters . I can't say I've ever really listened to ...