Coffee Meet-Up

Hi Mummies, I’m a first time mum and mum to twins. I run a local coffee shop in town, and I’m thinking of hosting a coffee morning.

Is this something that you would all be interested in? It’d be great to meet other mums in the area, with no “structure” just a coffee and chat.

We have baby changing facilities (which you don’t need to be a customer to use anyway), high chairs and great coffee.

Let me know if you’d all like to arrange something and we can choose a date that works best for most people. I look forward to meeting some of you.

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Needing friends.

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I feel im worth more than this however something in me is clearly desperate to retain the 1 friend I have 😔 even writing this is sound so stupid

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