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?

Have you actually read the op, Julianna. Nobody's questioned your right to "have a preference"

run it's not unspeakably rude! I used to run a play group. One mum used to being her own seeded bread for toast, one used to being some weird herbal tea stuff. I didn't find it rude at all! Also it's not the same with going all PFB with toys etc. At all.

I have one of these which I take camping. amzn.to/21tIiD1

I'm astounded that bringing a cafetière would have you labelled as a snob or a wanker by some people here. At work we have all sorts of hot drink prep stuff and some people like "real coffee" just as others have tea preferences for "builders tea" or fruit tea or peppermint or green tea. There are lots of ways to have hot drinks.

Bringing a cafetière and enough ground coffee to share sounds like a great idea and I bet there are others who'll join you if you're offering.

And there's nothing wrong with bringing your own drink to play group! I'd rather a mum bring their own than sit with nothing.

runlillian everyone is a volunteer. We all sign up on a rota system.

Just bloody take your own! I can't stand Nescafé! Reminds of the smell of weetabix! Eugghhh

I'd get some Azera and pop it in my bag. Simple.

I'm now quite worried about the crappy instant coffee I have at home and often offer to friends, family and random workmen. Some of them must think I'm frightfully common.
Come to think of it, quite a few friends ask for a cup of tea which explains a lot.

A rota system for what? Opening up / setting up the playgroup equipment or just making the coffee?

Nothing WRONG with Nescafé just people's personal taste.

Some of the mums where i work bring their own food and drink its fine but a coffee pot is taking it a bit far imo maybe your own fancy instant or a coffee bag but a coffee pot next will be the tassimo bubbiling away

If you call them "proper coffee" and "cheap shite" then yes, you might come across as a bit of a coffee snob!

If you just take along what you prefer to drink, I doubt many people would notice.

Should I drink the cheap shite to fit in? Yes. And so endeth the thread.

runlillian everyone is a volunteer. We all sign up on a rota system.

OK, so take a cafetiere on your next week on kitchen duty and see how it goes down.

Everyone else's playgroups must be organised very differently to ours. It is run by a group of retired women volunteers who serve hot drinks from a hatch. The coffee is really undrinkable but to make your own would mean bustling in there and dodging them while you filled up your cafetiere. It really would be unspeakably rude but perhaps others' contexts are different.

We aren't allowed to take food or drink into playground and they dont provide it either, consider yourself lucky with crap coffee ( but if allowed I take a insulated cup from home )

rhiweites Yeah it kind of threw me too at how much people would be offended by this, I mean to be called a wanker!
I thought by taking one, people might think I'm a little precious for not just drinking what's on offer, but maybe that's because they are happy to just drink cheap crap at home... I know some people do, and I reckon a lot at my playgroup do.
But if I can bring something nicer, and share it, with the people who would appreciate it, them why not?

Take a thermos mug and shrug off any comments a breezy "I've been carrying this around all morning trying to get a chance to drink it and didn't want it to go to waste".

Opening up, flogging, settling up, nipping to shop beforehand to buy snacktime fruit, sorting out snack etc. Everyone helps themselves to tea/coffee and you can have as many as you like

Thanks Usual
This reminds me of an episode of Come Dine with me when one guest refused to drink any of the wine offered by hosts and brought his own in a bag.
Everybody gave him low scores at the end and he didn't understand why.

That's the setup of every group I've ever been to, Lillian.

Op might have got different replies if she'd said at the beginning that the group was a co op and she planned on doing it on the day she was actually running the group. Which is full of her friends anyway.
Is there a certain amount of fibbing poetic licence in your story, op?

Everything wrong with nestle though elleblue

Get one of those travel mugs and make your coffee at home.

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I'm glad my DC are older, Giveme the toddler group situation is a social minefield.

Oh no! Would mever do that runlillian that would be rude!
Our playgroup has an open kitchen