Hot Chocolate Anyone ?

Hello @Faith-and-Hope, missed that Topic Tuesday. Maybe for the best. I'm not sure if chat about burnout would make me feel better or worse. At some stage if I'm feeling brave, I might have a peek at it.

So did you find a nice cuppa venue in you new locale? Neither myself nor Hubby are good at knowing what to do with ourselves if we formally set aside a time to "go out", but often we'll stop for a cuppa together when we're doing an errands run to the nearby regional city, and we tend to favour the ones in old buildings over the new. I like the homey feel of sitting down at a well used timber table, looking at Victorian timber panelling or Edwardian leadlights. Shiny white surfaces or modern "cubist" style places feel too cold to me.

@Former-Member, Hi, don't think I've met you yet. Hope your day with your Mum's a good one.

@Anna88, hot chocolate colouring page...

@Take_me_as_i_am .... I find the best way to deal with bully’s is to be coolly polite when you have to interact with them, and ignore them completely when you don’t.

They are generally looking for a fight, but by being polite, you are refusing to give them one, The harder they try to provoke one from you, the more their bullying behaviour shows up for what it is, cos when you are only being polite and staying out of their way otherwise, they are alone on centre stage. There is no doubt about who the trouble-maker is.

They also want a reaction, and you’re not giving them one, so they will tend to leave you in the too-hard basket after a while, and try to get a rise out of someone else.

I remember this amazing story about a town being bullied by someone in authority ..... I wish I could remember the details. Anyway, in response to him trying to muster the community to his cause, one person in the audience stood up and turned their back on him, folding their arms across their chest, people around them started to do the same thing, and it caught on. Soon he was facing a sea of backs. They could not have spoken more loudly, but they weren’t making a sound.

There are a lot of modern cafe’s around me here @Smc .... and in The Coffee Place that mr. heads off to as a part of his daily regimen ..... but there is an elegant old one in the city that I take my girls to for something special ..... which is keeping it special.

Once I start wandering around more, I will try to find more places along those lines. The one I go to now does a great chia pudding for breakfast, full of my favourite fruits, so that is my trade-off. I have another one that is a good walk away. I intended to go there this morning, but ran out of stuffing.

Tomorrow.

@Faith-and-Hope Many many years ago, a couple of my housemates, spur of the moment, decided to get dressed up formal and go to an elegant old inner city hotel for afternoon tea. Not my kind of thing- I need to be able to feel relaxed. But they enjoyed themselves.

That’s the sort of thing I could do with my girls. Will wait till D1 comes to visit though .....

Hi @Kataquarius ..... saw you on another thread ..... come and say hello over here too if you like ....