Operation Cherry Red

Our morning cups of coffee have a real exhilaration about them. It give us a spark to whatever we have planned for the day and perhaps even inspire what we do every day.

Heading out for a morning coffee has become a ritual for us. No day starts without coffee! Our favourite at the moment is an Ethiopian special called "Operation Cherry Red" (OCR). OCR is made from 100% Ripe Red Coffee Cherries sourced for small micro lots in Ethiopia. The micro-lots are only 1500 to 3000 Kg per farm. They are combined to produce a coffee with an almost one of a kind aroma and taste. Think sweet cherry, red berries, something along the lines of elderflower with a seductive mouthfeel; light but with the right amount of acidity and lingering darker notes.

We start almost everyday (except Sundays) at Ristretto in Northbridge where the wonderfully stylish Roxanne makes the best coffee with the coolest soundtrack bopping away in the background.

Here she's making us OCR on V60 dripper. For you curious folk; shes got a timer in her hand. The coffee will drip for 2 minutes and 30 seconds using 18 grams of beans. The coffee drips into a decanter sitting on scales. Once the clock ticks 2:30 the scales should be about 250 grams.

It must be coffee time again ...

365 days + many more to come

Yesterday we celebrated 365 days of being a couple. 

Winding the clock back those 365 days, it was a Saturday night. In Australia it was AFL Grand Final Day. In my mind (Trevor) I was a little nervous and tried to play it cool inviting Joshua to come to my house at about 7:00PM "just a few drinks". Despite me casually pretending it was "just drinks" I knew it was something more. On his arrival there was a spark. We had a wonderful night! 

Had we sat there that night and wondered what would be 365 days later, I suspect neither of us would have thought we would be packing up our home in readiness for a move. Today, we celebrated our year together doing exactly that. On the morning of Sunday, 13 October we will hop in our car and start an adventure from Perth, Western Australia to lovely Hobart, Tasmania.

We intend to drive some 5,264 kilometres. Our drive will take us across 6 states and territories of Australia. We will pass some of the most isolated pockets of Australia; see family and friends as we adventure across the semi- arid Nullarbor Plain to the greener (and cooler) pastures of Tasmania.