Anyone For Coffee

[Jez]

A change in the way that Coffee gets to our cups.

YouTube - GOOD Magazine: Bikes to Rwanda

I'd thought i'd post it up as i don't think we pay much mind to the hard labour involved providing us one one of our most popular drinks!

[naturelover]

wow i didnt realise it was still done like that,is this film now? thought big machines did it now,not still done by hand,people that are pregerdist ( dont think i have spelt that right )but you know what i mean,those people should watch that film then they would realise that we are all the same underneath,and without people like that they wouldnt be drinking their coffee.

[Jez]

Originally Posted by naturelover

wow i didnt realise it was still done like that,is this film now? thought big machines did it now,not still done by hand,people that are pregerdist ( dont think i have spelt that right )but you know what i mean,those people should watch that film then they would realise that we are all the same underneath,and without people like that they wouldnt be drinking their coffee.

predigest is the correct spelling. Just goes to show how a few simple bikes can improve the load and hopefully will bring the Coffee Farmers more cash for all there hardwork. One thing you notice watching the film is the community spirit in Africa. Something we're sadly loosing here in the U.K besides WAB that is

[Garden Carpet]

sorry folks, but you are both wrong.. it is prejudice. Nope.. am not a smart bottom.. I had to look it up too.. hehe
jaki

[Jez]

Originally Posted by Garden Carpet

sorry folks, but you are both wrong.. it is prejudice. Nope.. am not a smart bottom.. I had to look it up too.. hehe
jaki

I'm sure you spelt it that way but my PC thinks other wise

[naturelover]

how true that is jez,the warmth has gone, mind you i have never seen much warmth in the english,with the stiff upper lip and so forth,i am one of my own i will help and speak to anyone,i often wonder if i am british sometimes.

[Jez]

Nice too to have our neighbours. They more like family. Okay so we don't talk over the garden fence but we are always there for each other. & if we (Me or my mother) aren't up there for coffee they down here with us. but i know what your saying Naturelover. I still nicely suprise senior citizens when i offer to take the supermarket trolleys back to the bays for them. I was just brought up that way!

[naturelover]

good on ya jez,you sound like a nice feller.

[Jez]

Originally Posted by naturelover

good on ya jez,you sound like a nice feller.

Thanks NatureLover it's nothing really to do a good turn.

[Paul mabbott]

Not in South Yorkshire it hasn't - only down in the miserable south! Actually, I don't even think that's true - living in east London for many years, we had lots of very good neighbours (and a few right villains ... ) You might be talking about the 'stiff upper lip' middle class of middle England but it certainly doesn't apply to south Yorks folk (nosey, interfering gasbags perhaps but not snobbish ).

Getting back to the original point .... what is the Rwandan coffee like? I remember when we first got fair-traided coffee from Nicaragua ... it was awful! Has improved a lot now. Indeed coffee production, if you ignore Nestle, is increasingly fair-traded, organic and good tasting. Organic coffee plantations are not natural habitats but they can actually be quite good for wildlife as part of a landscape mosaic with natural forest.

Originally Posted by naturelover

how true that is jez,the warmth has gone, mind you i have never seen much warmth in the english,with the stiff upper lip and so forth,i am one of my own i will help and speak to anyone,i often wonder if i am british sometimes.