By: Blonde One
After the recent training non-event Blonde One and Little Miss Blonde visited the very lovely Ullacombe Farm for a quick cup of coffee and we discovered the need for a new kind of training: coffee cup training. I bet, like us, you didn’t realise that this would ever be a necessity, but you would believe me if you could have seen us trying to fathom out the best way of holding the mugs. Holding the actual mug with the whole hand proved impossible without burns (the coffee was good and hot, unlike certain other trendy coffee shops that shall remain nameless). Two fingers would not fit through the handle, so we had to resort to just using the forefinger. This was quite unsuccessful as we found that the mug was so big that it was hard to hold the weight of it with just one finger. A straw was out of the question (mostly because we didn’t want to look too silly). Our solution was to sit and chat, order a toasted tea cake and wait for the coffee to cool down.
We thus decided that we needed coffee cup training for our forefingers. We aren’t sure what exercises we should do to strengthen our fingers as this is beyond our normal scope of training schedules. Any suggestions will therefore be gratefully received.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bGTQ0KIbeVw
Pour into saucer and slurp.
Clearly a practical man!
I like it!
I think a genius marketing strategy there – see you were forced to spend more money on a tea cake while waiting for the coffee to cool down!!! Exercises for finger – a mini thera-band i.e. an elastic band!!!!
Do you think this would make me look silly?!!!
You mean you were out on Dartmoor without your gloves? Tut! Woolly hat? Whistle? Spare bootlace? (Now with that, you could have frapped the handle for insulation!)
P.S. Don’t know why I have suddenly become anonymous! Starfire.
(Well yes, it is a silly name, but years ago (oh, so many years ago!) I needed a c.b. handle in a hurry and I was staring at the bookshelf wondering what to use. It was in the Science Fiction section.)
I know – you are quite right to tut! Disappointed with myself!