Hi, I'm Steve, a London tour guide and owner of A London Miscellany Tours, a guided walking tour company who specialise in small number tours of the greatest city in the world!
I was a bit confused at first but my take on it is that a lot of the coffee houses were the forerunners of the stock exchange, so possibly it was a totem for good luck in business
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Oh yes, that cricket!
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I thought it was going to be something to do with that ball game that I just don’t understand! But no, it’s a very cute cricket enjoying fame
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I wonder what the connection between cricket and coffee is … or am I missing an obvious connection?
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I was a bit confused at first but my take on it is that a lot of the coffee houses were the forerunners of the stock exchange, so possibly it was a totem for good luck in business
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Or ,,, in German corporate raiders are called locusts. 😉
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