Alphabet Soup

& the Smelly Cat
Its seems that my cafe night is finding its own Rhythm and certainly becoming more popular as we had close to fifteen turn up for this one. A great friend made the 2 1/2 hour journey just to come for cake and 'Coke Spiders' with her lovely son and a gender questioning friend, who I believe it may have been one of her first times out in public.

Surrounded by friends and the lively atmosphere, that is the Alphabet City Cafe. There is still nothing else I would rather be doing, and wish that I could do it more often.
I found it quite quite amusing as people would come together chat and enjoy each others company, then move into another group and repeat the process again throughout the night. Even I found myself doing the same, which kind of surprised me more. I am usually the shy one that waits to be asked a question, its still something I have to work on and something I've been finding harder to do of late ( but enough of that )

My good friend 'Bree" bought out her guitar later in the evening and sang while her son played rhythm using the back of the chair and floor.

Even the talented 'Ashley' wowed us all with her amazing guitar skills yay.

And seeing that tonight felt like a scene from my favourite sit-com when I was young. I so wanted to hear 'Bree" sing "Smelly cat"
Yes I used to watch 'Friends' in fact it was the life I had always wanted a group of close friends to hang out with and share life with. Something that I felt had eluded me for most of my life. A something so simple that now that I have that in my life I no longer need to watch it and dream

Cafe night means so much more to me than you might think, and I'm so thankful to have so many wonderful people to share it with.

Love you all

Once again My cafe catch-up found me meeting up with new and old friends alike.

My good friend Clare was able to come to this weeks event , we used to chat for hours at the local deli where she worked and I always enjoyed her well thought out questions and found it a delight to be honest and forthright with someone who was not filled with preconceived ideas. I haven't seen her for a while now since she moved out of the area and have missed her wit and intelligence.
As always I was pleased with the turnout of wonderful people that I get to share my evening with.

The food was of course up to its usual high standard and Mark and his staff looked after all our needs in-spite of how busy they were this night.
For quite some time now I have been aware that the Alphabet Cafe also has a party of Gender Diverse Christians. that enjoy using this venue for a meeting point as much as we do, and sitting at a table nearby I noticed they were stealing glances across our table, as is normal for me, I had no idea why at the time but eventually one of the ladies came over to sit with us and introduced herself to us and proffered her card to us.
Her name is Terri, and she is a member of "Acts 2 Faith" a group of gender/lifestyle diverse Christians that meet there every two weeks. Within moments she was warmly welcomed into our group and proceeded to get to know us all better

Terri is a absolute character to say the least and I am looking forward to having her friends and herself join us for the next meeting. It was actually refreshing to see a faith based ministry that truly accepts all people regardless of gender identity/preference socio-economic status or creed into their community.

If you happen to feel that this is for you, or if your just curious
they meet up on:

Sundays at 11:30

251 High street

Northcote

VIC. 3170