Weekend Coffee and Chat Thread 3rd October 2026

well done re coffee club @DogMan79 

kaffeeklatsch

A kaffeeklatsch is an informal social gathering for drinking coffee and exchanging conversation or gossip.

Meaning and Origin

• Definition: The word combines the German terms Kaffee (coffee) and Klatsch (gossip, chatter, Tradition: Originating in Germany, it describes a long-standing custom of meeting friends, family, or neighbors in the afternoon for coffee, tea, pastries, and social catch-ups.
• English Adaptation: Adopted into English as coffee klatch (or coffee clatch), the term gained popularity in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries as a staple of neighborhood and community socializing.

Well done you @DogMan79

Hey it's great to see you here today 💙

I'm home on my couch with an iced coffee yoohoo!

I hope you're doing okay 👍

Is your coffee club based on library books ie a virtual book club?

I'm just about to finish a library book which I'm really not enjoying 😑 but I can't seem to return it unread.

Go figure?

Taali 💜

Great idea @DogMan79 I have not mastered the art of the mass tagging, but it can be a good way of reaching out. miss @Shaz51

I'll just have a regular cappacino. pleez. lol

@Taali and all reading along. You are welcome to pop on these social threads even if you are not tagged. Its hard to really know everyone who is reading behind the scenes.

@TAB My nanna said I was a Klatskaus as a kid before the orphanages. not sure the spelling, but same cognate Dutch .... chatterbox ... then I went quiet .... but apparently could write ... my talkativeness came out decades later in all my posts on Sane forum ...lol

Have a good day all

Apple

@everyone wishing you all a wonderful Saturday. Busy day here as it is my son's toy poodle's birthday. So celebrations all round.

Dutch Translations and Meanings

• Het koffiekransje: This is the most direct and traditional translation, meaning a small, cozy coffee circle or club where friends or neighbors meet regularly to chat.
• De koffieklets: This translates literally to "coffee chatter" or gossip over coffee, capturing the informal, talkative nature of a Kaffeeklatsch.
• Koffieleuten: A fun Dutch verb that means "to coffee around" or spend a long time lingering over cups of coffee and conversation

@Appleblossom

trying to set up whippersnipper. thought take 5 mins, been hour so far .sucking the life out of me

ok its assembled from pic on box, no instructions of course. thought fuel and go .. but no .. it uses dift mix ffs so have to find stuff to measure oil with plus another container ok few painmeds and off to servo lol

@StuF @Meowmy @Taali @ENKELI 

You know what @TAB Iwould have had a tissy fit by now and chucked it in the bin 🙄

Taali 💜

@TAB hey tabby, helping friends at their house. Will be going home soon. Going to another friend's tonight to help them. Enjoy servo.

Today I'm going to shopping centre to take a friend to have her toenails cut, me having a haircut I think, will have a coffee tho, very busy on the roads because of long weekend, stay safe people

if it does the backyard once it has paid for itself @Taali re whippersnipper

i gave up and went to bottlo in bigtown, BWS still got 1 liter for near same price 700 ha ha I pour into 700 to try and maintain some sort of control ..