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I love the café. It is the place where stories come together. And I am a storyteller. Lesley jokes with people – as a sort of warning I guess – “ask a question; get a story”.

I guess this is my point for wandering into the realms of philosophy, our stories are enriched by the intersection of other’s stories. The café is a place that brings stories together and perhaps unwittingly adds to each story.

I know, your thinking “what do onions and parfait have to do with coffee?” A strange combination, an even worse pairing. So let me explain...

The bottom line is, we all have preferences, they are not right or wrong, they are just what we prefer. Nothing sacred about personal preference. Of course, this idea that preference is not consecrated truth can be applied to many areas of life. The ability and willingness to transfer knowledge is a useful gift.

By Michael Fewson In The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Arthur Dent, after escaping the destruction of the earth to make way for a hyperspace bypass, discovers that the earth was simply a supercomputer created by pan-dimensional beings to answer the question of life, the universe and everything in it. The first computer these pan-dimensional beings created, called deep thought, had in fact answered the question… the answer was 42. However, the answer was meaningless, as the computer explained, for it was the question they actually need to discover.  Of course, this is fiction, the work of Douglas Adams. Those...