For the last 5 or so weeks Wednesday mornings have begun a little earlier than usual for me. I arrive at the Uni around 7.30am, open up our building and start getting ready to serve pancakes to a group of around 100 students and staff.
We are developing a ‘regular’ clientele and it’s great to greet people in the morning with – “Would you like to join us for a pancake breakfast? – It’s free!” There are a group of students who come each week to help out with the set up, cooking, preparing and then cleaning up of our Breakfast Club. We have tea, coffee and cordial on offer, a variety of toppings including whipped cream (this is the favourite), and we supply newspapers to read and groups who sit and chat. There are even a couple of ‘study groups’ who meet before they head off to their lectures for the day.
Every now and again we get a group of exchange students in, the most recent being a group from Japan who were very keen to learn how to use a BBQ as well as the recipe for our light–as-a-feather pancakes.
Here are a couple of photos from our first weeks.
