Neros Huddersfield

Neros is a massive organisation and I think we feel that when we go to many Nero cafes .. And who can blame the staff as they are always so busy and the aggressive area management to stay on top form must be very hard to stay genuine and polite! From the Huddersfield staff have nearly always been gracious and serve a high standard of coffee. However under the most recent management and the staff of present a real warmth seems to be issuing through. i can only commend this latest team of Huddersfield staff and a good few of the past gems here for dealing with the long days and busy working conditions. The coffee is always of top quality and if a coffee doesn't meet required tastes of the patron the staff are very polite and only too pleased to meet those requirements.. and watching this happen i never see negative afterlooks. 5stars all around and if the bloody council would allow them out door seating they would have a great cafe!
5stars all round *****

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Pitseleh and Chihuahua

I just wanted to note my excitement here. 2 days ago Pure Bred Chihuahua, my debut novel arrived. It's amazing what a positive partner such as Matthew Read at Pitseleh and editor of PBC and an outlet can have on the energy to write! It took 11 years for this novel and 17 years of novel writing and filmmaking for this to happen. I feel grateful, happy and in need of a great sigh that never seems to come.
MZ :-)

A kind of Trust : Love and Letting Go

A few times now a soft yet powerful whisper has told me of what lies beneath after the letting go. For me there is always something I feel like I have forgotten and before I start work, writing, or thinking about the films and such the energy wasted and time needed to focus on whatever it is I'm focussing on is too great to describe.

I felt a rumor lately about two more false things to worry about. Two things greater than Christ or Buddha and they are Love and Letting Go! I thought,.. you know,.. I think it is time to let go of letting go and love. This felt too hard and after many realizations that left the only ambitions possible to be these two and the main one being the last ambition Love... I could only manage the idea of letting these slide for ten breathes or ten clean breathes anyway. I'd say clean breathes are those where nothing else is thought about. So many constructs, so much scaffolding hold these false Gods there because they actually describe what lies beneath. They describe in feelings how a language tries to describe in the best of what we have, or the most beautiful place we know. Feelings of love and the high concept of letting go try to describe in our most masterly language we posses what lies beneath. Feelings our most precious language but still a very sensitive language non the less.

Then when these last bastions are put to one side for the slightest moment the stupid arguments about letting go and love vanish. The stupid arguments of ego and all that go. When these are let go of our centre is turned on. To that which is bigger. So bigger. And all those things our amazing feelings have tried to describe hoping we'd catch on are not felt but are ARE! This viscous silence, probably golden, Taos around us and those things we feared that we'd lose or that fucking religions told us to lose and die for are there so plentiful and loving and threads from our loved ones attach to us and we can love them as family without even thinking of letting go of them to be truly enlightened and we can slither that web outwards more and more with ever silence we allow. With every golden silence we allow the thread can weave it's way in and through all existence everywhere and in every atom and the zero freak can truly feel more freedom and love than our lovely storytelling personalities ever dreamed of. Even if it is just for five breaths.

Just a thing I felt at the station yesterday. Thought I'd share it :-)
Mz xx

Cafe Hut with Mel and PBC#2

So my first review of a cafe experience happens like this.
I drive to town from work for my lunch break and park in Kingsgate and walk upto the Caffe Hut. It's a beautiful day and I have a notebook in my back pocket, A5 in size and it now goes everywhere with me. In my wallet is a couple of quid for coffee and parking and a mini pencil and an turquoise mini retractable pen.

Melanie Sian Vandesande one of the hardest working people I know serves me a double espresso and a cup of water and I sit in one of my favourite spots in town to write. It's warm and I have a view right up the King's Street. Mel is a friend but as a cafe review too her service is lovely and the coffee is beautiful, it is a little more acidic maybe because of the paper cups than some of the smoother multnational's espressos but I'm in the mood for it and I love it, it hits the sides and wakes me up (i'm still asleep at 11.30 ater being up like 5 hours). There is always a friendliness and a down to earth way at the Caffe Hut while sitting with the ladies who would have smoked behind the bike sheds about 60 years ago. I imagine there are some interesting stories in the heads of these customers. I'm thoroughly anti-smoking because my Dad died so young because of smoking and so I feel quite bizarre in a corner of smokedom but I like it.

Then I see Mel wander up to the cutest couple, elderly and in love... she returns with kind eyes and lovely words of her grandparents. I see them holding hands.

Alongside this I write the 1st 2 pages of Pure Bred Chihuahua #2 and so note the time and Mel and the coffee as a momentous occasion for me in this wonderful moment of coffee, sunshine and old romance and a great energy coming through my double espresso.

On this particular visit 2nd Sept 2011
Service-5 stars, coffee-4, Experience-5 out of 5

BTW Huddersfield is a great coffee hub Most coffee at most places s at a 4 or 5 standard ... I'll go into that when I review the cities

MZ :)

Beware Wolf Ideas

These were the first doodles for the pr stills and video! The first tests look fuvcking cool!

CoffeeShops- Maybe time to start giving my opinion on those I visit

Coffee Shops - Maybe time to start giving my opinion on those I visit you know quality, care, view and atmosphere and how it effects the writing and doodling!
MZ

next Project

In between major projects it always feels hard to focus on one. The large projects that are all simmering at the moment and vying for attention are sorting out draft 2 of MASANAGA a feature screenplay, a screenplay for Pure Bred Chihuahua #1 then two Novels Pure Bred Chihuahua #2 and I think the favourite is The Adolescent Minotaur another novel and while these are written and vying, THE GAPS an experimental feature is being filmed and slowly edited. I THINK I NEED TO FOCUS ON... The Adolescent Minotaur (check the spelling too) and leave the others until they need attention... Although i'll probably have the others continuing at 2 or 3% speed while the novel kicks off on hand written notepads... Then I'll need a change and one of the others may kick in... So espresso and thoughts on the Minotaur ...
Mz

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