coffee

Nice low-key coffee morning yesterday. Richard and Asi turned up.

as did Henry

And Ben (who describes his morning here). Who spells out, once again, that you don't need to be a planner, or have a blog, or know anything about anything to turn up for coffee morning. Just be willing to drink a warming beverage and chat about stuff.

And we had newcomers Andrew...

...and Charles. Welcome chaps. The conversation ranged from timebank to volunteering generally, to horses mouth, to evangelical atheism (and Richard's version of a kids version of The God Delusion), to how someone needs to make everyone realise what an asset asylum seekers probably are to the country, to some other stuff that I can't remember. But we did end up with discussion of parental internet use. Ben said his Dad is convinced that everyone's email address is just theirname.com. And I  mentioned my suspicion that my parents limit themselves to one google a day. Children of rationing you know. And that made me think, on the way home, about how creating false constraint is another way to add interest to things - like the way Bill Drummond describes his music listening habits on No Music Day. Imagine how much you'd think about it and plan if doing a web search was rationed. Just one a day. And then Ernie Schenck's book arrived when I got home, and I suspect it's all about that kind of thing, so it felt like a day of mild coincidence.

I have to say though that our gentle ramblings pale in comparison to the thinkfest that is the Chicago Coffee Mornings. We need to raise our game.

Comments

[Ben]

One of my goals for 2007 is going to be to visit a Coffee Morning outside of the UK.

Chicago would be pretty easy for me, so maybe I'll try that one.

[Nicholas]

My goal for 2006 is to visit a coffee morning.

[Martin Silcock]

Well I'm having coffee online this morning if anyone wants to join me for a chat go to:

http://planners-drinking-coffee.wikispaces.com/

Martin