To take some proper coffee to playgroup?

[Givemeabone]

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?

The travel plunger type have rave reviews from my dh. I hate tea and coffee so take my own diet coke to playgroup. The other mums don't seem to mind ;)

I have read the whole thread including the open kitchen update. I do think that making your own 'proper' coffee would be too much of a faff (possibly attention seeking); I like my own type of tea but at these types of events I just accept what is offered greatfully, it's not hard to last 2 hours without a 'perfect' drink.

BTW- Contigo make excellent completely spill proof travel mugs, I have bought two at the recommendation of posters on here.

hot drinks at play groups are a big no no in my book unless drunk in a completely different area. I've seen too many near misses over the years.

YANBU, like Morris dancing, bad coffee is something that should only be experienced once. Go for it OP & sod what anybody else thinks

Can't you just pick up a coffee like Costa on the way? Would look less odd!

For the love of God.

OP, can't you just cancel the cheque?

The desire for fresh coffee appeared at our Church toddler group. We bought a filter machine out of toddler funds. (It is a PARENT and toddler group after all, the kids had loads of decent toys, it was the parents turn for a change!)

We converted the church to filter coffee and now it is standard at all Church events with more than about 3 coffee drinkers!

cancel the cheque

Sorry, :-) it's just inconceivable living and working in london that there are not about 78 coffee shops between the OPs home and the play group :-)

Two new coffee shops have opened up on my street in the last few months. Gentrification is going mental.

I can't stand instant coffee so if I couldn't bring a travel mug of coffee from home with me, I would drink tea instead.

Fuck off.

I'm a great dancer.

whois, I know (I'm in gentrified London too!) but the OP has said a zillion times that there are no coffee shops convenient.

One of the most important many reasons I choose to live in a city.

morriszapp

Apologies, let the school & myself down there

Would people really care?

Sure, if you barged into the kitchen shrieking , "Move over, peasants," and got to work, it would be a different issue, but it's just a cafetiere.

I don't even like proper coffee, but I get your point. It's the little things that make the difference to your day, especially with a toddler in tow.

I get where your coming from ref

Bloody phone.
Regarding open kitchen. You can either put a zillion details in the original post, andyour readers lose the will to live, let alone read your post, or put in what you think are the relevant details and need to add more later.

Fine balance.

I don't understand how buying a takeaway coffee is less pretentious, when a single cup of coffee from Costa/Starbucks/Nero can easily cost as much as a half-pound of ground coffee which will make lots of cups of coffee.

Haven't rtft but you can buy coffee bags in the supermarket if no-one else has suggested this. Then you can just ask for a mug of hot water

Who cares what they think? As long as you're nice and are prepared to share I don't think its an issue

I'd happily share a decent coffee with you or anyone if offered at a play group, however I think I'd just bring in a flask as I wouldn't want to risk being 'that mum' as you say.

OP did you go on Monday? Did you take a cafetière in? Did the world continue spinning as normal or have you been banned ?

Did you make loads of new fresh coffee fiend friends?

I'm drinking a coffee bag coffee as we type and it is actually pretty good.

I always bring my own coffee to work in a flask, because machine coffee is horrible. I then hold lectures (not really) about how bizarre it is that people think ANY coffee is better than NO coffee and to think that in East Africa coffee making is a tradition steeped in history and meaning and here we push a button and get swill and aren't we essentially disrespecting the farmers labouring to produce the coffee that we aren't even willing to pay fair trade prices for etc. etc. I live in Sweden mind so people are constantly queuing at the machine, drinking litres of the stuff while moaning about how bad it is. Drink one good cup at home instead, eejits. I'd have had a cafetière like at my old job but I have no place to keep and warm my milk near it so I just bring it in a flask. Am clearly a special snowflake, lol.

To a playgroup I wouldn't bring a cafetière but happily a flask, or drink tea.

I would like to point out that I am an equal opportunist in my beverage lecturing and also tell Swedes off for either getting the "hot" water from the multibeverage coffee machine (eurgh) or not using boiling water for their tea. They'll do stuff like touch the kettle and say oh it's still warm, do you want some? I'm all like RAH RAH RAH FRESHLY BOILED. Poor deluded sods.

Take your own decent coffee and cafetiere! I hate instant coffee and only drink fresh brewed stuff. You're allowed to have taste especially if you're gong to share. Pre-empt any judgemental whispers by pointing it out yourself 'yes I know I'm a coffee snob but I don't like instant coffee - who's up for a brew?' sort of thing. I wouldn't think anyone will mind. And if they do, they're a bit closed minded. We all have different tastes.

I would take some coffee bags. You can add one inconspicuously to a mug of hot water. My husband is a real coffee snob and we've had every method and type at one point. He swears by the yellow box of Lyons coffee bags, called Good Morning.

I used to take my own in a travel mug or flask. If you took a cafetiere don't think anyone would care. At work I do this and people know I do it because the work coffee is gross. They make a joke of it but always come to me for coffee 🍵☕

Just buy a coffee on the way?