Ah,my most important first and lovely coffee often isn't my first drink of the day. Because I often sleep badly, partly due to a bad back and patches of bad cramp, I have to have a rule of no food or drink other than water before 6am. If I don't do that, when I have had a bad patch, and finally had a better sleep I wake up, wanting a drink!!
So. I can be a clock watcher, and then follow my specific pattern. I put my fresh water into the kettle and on, while I have warmed my cafetiere. I then put my bone china mug at the ready, and as the kettle begins to come to the boil empty the cafetiere and add my fresh coffee, enjoying the lovely smell. I don't let it actually boil, but just as it starts then add the water , stir the cafetiere, and leave to gain the right strength. Whilst this is happening I sometimes get weetabix ready, as I don't eat cheese, it upsets me, so am conscious that I need to have some milk per day. The boring weetabix let's me get that down me, and I have tablets to take, but need to take them after food so it's a way of doing two jobs at once. So then the day begins to improve greatly, when I am able to sit, reading the morning gransnet and then I have my best moment of the morning, when I listen to Bach before 7, drinking my lovely coffee, relaxing into the music , and feeling I can be in charge of my day, to a certain extent, and whatever the day may bring that is my moment. In summer with daylight I will listen to Bach and then go out to the garden to enjoy whatever there is to discover. In winter,it will be more of a struggle, but with the blessing of a shower, I can eventually get going, with my coffee helping each day. My lovely husband use to be the bearer of coffee to me in bed, a much appreciated kindness, which I still miss. Never mind, I still have the joy of that first coffee to enjoy.
