Cape Town can serve a good coffee, but ask for an iced coffee on a hot afternoon and you are likely to be served something approximating an icecream thickshake – to be avoided at all costs. I managed yesterday to explain my preference for an iced coffee with discernible ingredients. Just to wind it up one more notch, in the storytelling course we have been working on separating out ingredients in the task of telling a story – examining the kinds of relationship between teller tale and audience. Sue and Ashley remind us that there are no rules except that you need to know what choices you are making, – otherwise you get the thickshake version. If you imagine three concentric circles - close in the teller is enacting pieces of the story, the next layer is reacting to the story and inviting the audience to respond with you. The third and outermost layer is the neutral narrator. There is no privileging of one zone over another, the truth is you need to go between them. And the trick is in not blending them all into a smoothie or worse still a thickshake. Suffice to say it is very much a work in progress. At least I got the iced coffee I wanted yesterday!