Sunday Breakfasts

After a year hiatus from Sunday Breakfasts, we have started again. Sitting down after a hectic morning I needed to reflect on exactly why we began this event.

Living in Townsville and living in Brisbane are two very different experiences. You'd think that in a smaller town there'd be less friends and less opportuities for catching up socially, but we found the opposite was true. Whether it is due to the feeling of isolation that prompted people to gravitate together, or due to the sheer ease of driving or walking only a few minutes to see people, we found ourselves socialising often and with many different people. And not the usual stuff either. We would have the standard drinks out in the city or local riverside tavern, we'd do lunch or coffee in the mall and have parties at our respective houses. But we'd also go walking/yoga classes together often, or do early morning trips to the river or beach. We'd go to football games together every chance we got and often just hang out after school/work because we could! So moving back to Brisbane to our considerably larger group of friends was a shock.

Brisbane social gathering are much more formal. They are more likely to be written on a calendar or have a facebook event made for them. To make dates with our friends involved planning 1,2, even 3 months in advance! We found ourselves very sad and lonely back home, and craving social contact. We spent most of our 'dates' quickly catching up and ending with the 'we must do this more often'...

So we discussed what strategies we were going to use to mend this problem in our lives. We just happened to be tripping around Europe at the time. We enjoyed many parts of our trip, but especially the act of sharing breakfast. A long, slow, social, and cheap part of the day. Chatting over a cup of tea or coffee and munching on some local bread or pastries got us thinking we needed to bring this back with us to Australia. So, Sunday Breakfast was initiated.

Tea and Coffee are always available, and we even tried to replicate our favourite hot breakfast drink 'Cola Cao'. We began with just croissants and brioche and conserves, but Loweys enjoyment of cooking led us to hot breakfasts, pancakes and muffins.

We really enjoy seeing our friends and family on a weekly basis, and whether you come regularly (Emma...) or every so often (everyone else.. lol) it's an act of sharing something simple and social that's pleasureable.

Highlights: Sitting in the sun on a cold winters morning, Loweys scrambled eggs, hot fresh bread and now seeing Summer share time with her extended family.

We'll only be doing it every month now I think, it was a shock to us how much work we do for it, but it really is an invaluable part of our Sunday mornings now. :)