Bunny Boilers, saying yes and drinking tea

I met blogger Wanda for lunch yesterday.
Meeting "strangers" is not something I do easily, especially given the fact that we all know that there are some unhinged loons out there in Internet land.
On the surface, some people look perfectly ok, but cross them in some banal way and true colours can be shown and bunnies can ultimately be boiled.
Thankfully neither Wanda or myself are bunny boilers.
So we had an entertaining, chatty two hours over avocado on toast!

I have never really known a blog bunny boiler despite being trolled occasionally but I have once experienced a phone threat at Samaritans when we volunteers took calls exclusively from our own local area which totally unnerved me ( we now take national calls on the freephone 116123 number)
The caller in a suitably sinister voice whispered that he was sat outside the centre watching us and although it all turned out as a particularly sad hoax, my imagination galloped down all of those big dark house movies where the heroine is chased screaming down corridors and locked alleyways .

And so, like I said my lunch was suitably entertaining and I am glad I said yes to the invitation . This Evening I'm going to meet a colleague for a drink in an old Art Deco pub in Conwy. It was a pub that The Prof and I used to go to a lot, and it will be my first foray out to it since the split but I'm looking forward to go as the woman I'm meeting will, I think be great company

Anyhow speaking of boiling
Yesterday, after asking for a cup of tea at the cafe ( the cafe where I flirted with that cute guy even though I was covered in avocado ) I was presented with this !

The 26 inch waisted Barista dropped the plank with a flourish and rather theatrically lisped
" Have you ever taken tea here before?"
I almost laughed out loud and had the urge to say " No but I've been drinking tea for over 50 years"
But politely I said " No " with a smile
The barista then proceeded to teach me how to brew the tea
" You plunge the plunger thus !" he crooned plunging his plunger
" Then you turn over the timer thus"
The timer was turned
" Then voila the tea is brewed and is ready to be poured " 
I tried to look suitably excited to keep him happy

Gawd help us