I’ve been sitting in an ice-cream parlour at a designated chatter and natter table for over an hour, waiting to have a meaningful conversation – or any conversation at all. There are all kinds of schemes set up to facilitate impromptu connections – the chatter and natter table I’m visiting is just one. I don’t see a chatty table when I get there, but I do get talking to Matt, one of the cafe’s proprietors. Photograph: Alicia Canter/The GuardianI decide to visit Alexandra Hoskyn, the founder of the Chatty Cafe scheme, to find out where I am going wrong. Since then, the Chatty Cafe scheme has spread across the UK and has recently begun in Canada.

Source: The Guardian January 06, 2020 10:52 UTC