To take some proper coffee to playgroup?

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I go to only playgroup each week. It is on a monday morning and starts at 9:15. I usually drop ds off at school and head straight there with dd.
Most monday mornings are a bit manic and a lot of the time I find myself getting to playgroup having not yet had a brew of any sort.
I could really do with a coffee at that point.
The coffee they have is cheap shite nescafe instant stuff. It's horrible.
Wibu to either take my own proper coffee & cafetiere, which I don't mi d sharing as a little goes a long way. Or atleast take a decent instant coffee, which I won't want to share!

What 'type' of mum bracket would you put me in at your playgroup?

Just buy a coffee on the way?

And cancel the cheque while you're at it!

I'd actively make friends with you if you were at my playgroup. I'd do it and own it, if you do it every week I bet it breaks the ice with loads of people.
Life's too short to worry about what people think of you so enjoy your coffee

Can you go full middle class and bring some avocado to have in toast?

I live in Sydney, a city famous for its coffee snobbishness. Our playgroup has a full on coffee machine, with a proper barista that makes coffee to order. And there's homemade cake every week too. The entry fee is cheaper than buying a coffee and cake in a cafe. Have you considered emigrating?

You could totally pull this off my village. If anyone asked you could say you don't drink cheap instant and no one would blink.

If can squeeze the time in, take a flask? That's what I do when I'm getting a train.

Not sure why it would be that weird to stash a little cafetiere, though. Everyone these days seems to have varied and wonderful tea/coffee drinking habits. I can't even find a 'normal' teabag at work these days.

I now think emigrating is the only real way forward.

Life is too short. Just bring your own, be polite and offer it to others and if anyone has a problem just cheerily say you are fussy about coffee.
We are all fussy about some things in our life.
I honestly wouldn't care less if you turned up with your own coffee. We like what we like.

I wouldn't put you in any category but I'd think you had a special relationship with coffee. But I take my own coffee on holiday with me.

Just drink what you want. Take your own jar of instant and say you want to use that, no one will care.

Have in no way RTFT but my God I would MAKE YOU MY FRIEND!!!!

It's one cup of cheap coffee once a week. It's not as if anyone is holding you down and force feeding you their nasty brew. Why is it such a big deal, don't drink it if you don't like it.

Take a thermos of your own coffee if it's that important to you or get up five minutes earlier and make time to have your coffee at home.

Taking your own cafetiere will just mark you out as pretentious and frankly a little odd.

Bunny girl am v jealous of that playgroup. We moved to the sticks from London (coffee places on every corner in our patch) to the sticks where apparently no one drinks decent coffee...

Get up five minutes earlier and have coffee before you leave.

Or stop caring whether people think you are odd for your hot drink choices (I drink green tea so am used to carrying teabags around with me and having to field questions about it - I don't care if people think I am odd/stuck up/hippy/health fanatic - I may be one of those things...).

I take mine in a travel mug when I'm volunteering at school. I find the benefits of drinkable coffee outweigh the annoyance of potentially being looked at funny.

Nearly everyone at our group drinks tea. I'm now wondering if this is because the coffee is dreadful. Noone would be bothered if someone made 'proper' coffee for everyone who wanted it, but noone would want to wash it up either .

Where are these playgroups with lovely volunteers who make the drinks? Wish we had some volunteers.

We try to prevent spillage on children by giving them piles of fruit and then biscuits, to keep them at the table while we drink our hot drinks.

It's eccentric, but hardly the full Quentin Crisp. Not that there's anything wrong with going the full Quentin Crisp either.

Get one of those travel mugs with a plunger and put your own coffee in it then all you need to do is add hot water. Or just arrive with a travel mug of coffee made up. I wouldn't drink the cheap shite either - sorry but I love my one good cup of coffee in the morning. I'd bet you might even start a trend and they all like decent coffee but no-one was wanting to stick their neck out.
Go on, break the mould. I for one would applaud you and immediately want to be your friend.

And anyway, there is no excuse for shite coffee these days. We get the stuff in Aldi and it's lovely. You could 'donate' a large cafetiere and win more friends

I wouldn't honestly give a shit what anyone else thought of me on those facts.... If it makes me happier and it doesn't harm anyone else, just go ahead and do it.
Why sneak around causing yourself more hassle? You prefer something thats not offered to you, you're doing something about it, it's who you are. If people judge you for it, they're not worth your friendship

I worked in an office where quite a few did this. But they were in work for eight hours so a little different. Can't you just have a coffee before you go! and bring it in a travel mug?

Round here coffee is revered (not by me) and you'd still look barking if you did that. Travel mug (like I do with my funny tea).

I would have taken a cafetiere and not thought anything of it! You are perfectly entitled to drink whatever coffee you like and they can drink the coffee they like. And anyone making snarky comments about it is not someone who you will ever want to be friends with anyway. Win win.

Life is too short to drink bad coffee and to give a monkeys what others think. You could start a trend go for it

I haven't read the full thread but seen someone mention the bodum travel press things, I have one that I use as I like filter coffee but can only drink decaf, I take it on holiday with me to use in the restaurant (it's AI I wouldn't take it into a paid for restaurant but lots of places don't do decaf in those I get a wine soft drink instead)
They also have a clip lid thing, you could say you are scared of knocking a mug over....?

I hate tea and instant coffee. I love fresh coffee. If I were you, I'd take some ready made in a thermal travel cup. Using a cafetiere could come across as OTT.

The toddler group I go to has plastic cups that make hot drinks taste of plastic. Double yuck! I take a can of Coke with me and if I forget, then I have water.

Tesco sell pre-filled coffee filters 10 for £2 and the coffee is really nice. You just put it on top of the cup and fill with water.