Mono Monday: Essential

I don't drink tea and rarely drink coffee after mid morning but I find it essential to have a couple of strong coffees first thing in the morning to get me going.  I have a 'bean to cup' machine and use an Italian roast bean that I buy from a roaster in Newton Abbot; it makes a very strong dark coffee that I love but if I make it for guests they usually politely take a few sips and then leave it.  I now tend to warn them and they usually opt for 'instant' instead!  I always have a long coffee with just a splash of cold milk when I first wake up, and then an espresso after breakfast.  This was my espresso this morning; unfortunately, by the time I had used it to take shots for my blip it had gone cold!

Thanks to ApolloFly for an interesting set of themes for Mono Monday this month.