"I have a pot called Boring Cool People, " he said.

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But now that I have stirred the pot a little, all is not lost.

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"Ever since then people say I was inspired by a pepper pot - but it could have been the salt pot I picked up, " he said.

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For the past few years I have satisfied my five cup a day habit with an Italian stovetop moka pot by Bialetti, the hourglass shaped design you see in almost every Italian kitchen.

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"They have been quite good to us over in Stranraer I have to admit, so there might be a little more comes out of the pot, " he added.

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Living in the pot-hole-plagued traffic jam that is the suburbs of Brussels, I have a hard time understanding what they mean.

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