I Love Coffee, and I Now Have the T-Shirt to Prove it

Back in 1983, while in Mrs. Clifford's third class, I won a copy of The Citadel of Chaos for drawing a picture of an elephant. Then, for a long time, nothing much happened. Until, that is, 2008 when I was awarded a rather spiffy phone (and some crystal in a lined box) for writing a post about 80s computing & gaming.

Given this 25 year gap between prizes I'd resigned myself to not seeing anything free coming my way until (at least) 2033 – when I'd be too middle-aged, conservative & miserable to appreciate anything but a year's subscription to Ireland's Own or a case of Imperial Leather.

Happily for me (and my grumpy future self) fate seems to now have adopted a more generous approach. Less than 12 months after my last stroke of fortune came news that the fabulous Ruth Crean, of the equally fabulous Nice Day Designs, had pulled my name from a custom-made hat and would bestow on me a garment of my choosing.

Here's what I chose (that's not me modeling by the way, it's Ruth's fella, the lovely John Elliot):

I will never, ever, ever take it off. Never. I plan to be buried in it.

Anyway, pop over (this instant) to Ruth's web-home and buy some customised beautifulness. Or, if you're in the 'hood, stroll down Bedford Row of a Sunday and see her, and her gorgeous clothes, in 3-D.