Want a FREE coffee?

My work used to take me to the Stables shopping centre in Mill Park, so naturally I started sampling the various cafes. The first one I tried – meh, no thanks. I ordered strong, but I got weak so I never returned. The second I tried was a strange hybrid of a milk bar and a café. Okay then.

I noticed they had a type of coffee on their menu I hadn’t seen before. (Do I remember the name of it? Of course not. My memory is like a sieve sometimes.) “What is that?” I asked. The girl at the counter didn’t know, so she went and got the head honcho manager barista bloke whoever he was, who told me it was a short black with lemon. Weird. I had to try it, of course. It wasn’t bad. I haven’t seen it on the menu anywhere else since.

It was shortly after this that I found Café 38. The coffee there was good, they had papers to read and I never went to either of the other cafes again. They had a loyalty card, which soon filled up – almost. Then that job ended and I never returned. I have carried the loyalty card in my wallet, with its free coffee unused, ever since. I most likely will never use it, given that the closest place to Mill Park that I go to on a regular basis is, I don’t know, perhaps the airport, which is half an hour away around the Western Ring Road; or the city, which is probably 45 minutes away on some of Melbourne’s messiest roads.

Do you want this loyalty card, with its free coffee, at possibly Mill Park’s best café? If so, leave a comment saying “I wants it” Gollum style, and hopefully we can make arrangements.

UPDATE:
This is completely off topic, but what does that matter when you can read about giant squid?

SECOND UPDATE:
At the risk of lowering the tone of this blog, I just found this online. Is it for real?

THIRD UPDATE:
I added a new link on the right there - Crema Magazine cafe reviews. They have cafe reviews from every state in Australia. Top stuff.

FOURTH UPDATE:
I’ve been playing Super Scrabble. It’s just like normal Scrabble, except for the ways in which it isn’t. It has double the amount of letters, double the amount of spaces on the board, quadruple word score and quadruple letter score. If they would only make a version that was six times the size, with nonuple word score, then I’d be happy.

FIFTH UPDATE:
If you’re in New Zealand watch out for the Bearatross. Those things are vicious.