Jungle Coffee

… a new era! Thank you everyone who came and helped us, and thanks for everyone involved in every little part of this extra adventure… More on this later! More fields to roll into 😂

Come find me at in Plymouth! The sun has been shining on us, and we have one more day here rolling out the iced coffees, matchas and boozy coffees ☀️ we have beans from , cakes from and plenty of oat milk 🙌🏼❤️

Summer is coming! The trailer has been getting some much needed love and care in preparation for a busy summer. You may have noticed I have taken a few months off … yes! Time off! < gasp >

I decided not to fill a diary gap as we never seem to have any free time (my husband runs his own business too, .trees ) and we renovated our house and did a lot of things we would never normally find time for (spending time together being a big one!) i have even been going to the gym! Holy cripes who is this woman?? She is well rested and she has a fancy bathroom and a garden shed laundry palace 💪🏼

But exciting news! The trailer has been sanded and re-oiled, she has new axils, wheels and lights, coffee machines and grinders have been serviced and i am psyched for the first event of the summer in Plymouth in a couple of weeks 🥳

You will find Jungle Coffee at the following festies and events :

Plymouth 31/05 - 2/06
05/07-07/07
12-14/07
08-11/08
16-18/08
22-25/08

Christmas and New Year. For many it’s the toughest time of the year, missing loved ones and seeing posts on social media about how everyone appears to be smashing it. For some it’s a time to spend with their loved ones and enter goblin mode. For most of us it’s simply a rush to get all your work done so you can run around trying to have a good time; the time of year where you are under a heap of pressure to ‘enjoy quality time’ whilst spending money you don’t have and feeling like if you don’t have a good time there is something wrong with you.

What I’m about to say isn’t ‘look how great I’m doing’ , because to be frank, I’m not always doing that great! This is a post of gratitude. Gratitude for every production manager that has picked me over the ten other applicants for craft coffee on a film set; gratitude for everyone who has bought a coffee off me in the last two years; for my friends who have offered to work for me for very little pay or for free when I have worked events that have actually lost me money; for my husband who has driven hundreds of miles to help me when s**t has hit the fan (and who has counselled me through intense self doubt and encouraged me that I can do anything); for my parents who bailed me out when I was up sh*t creek; and to my little boy, who understands that I sometimes go away for months on end for work, and is proud of me for it. 🥹

Jungle coffee was supposed to be a weekend side hustle. Just over two years ago I was gifted an opportunity to work on a film and quit my job with no plan for what would happen afterwards, and with a lot of anxiety about reversing a trailer. This year we became homeowners, because somehow Jungle Coffee made me eligible for a frickin mortgage.

So basically, anyone that had a hand in that, THANK YOU! So so so much love # #

March 2024!
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One week left at … the weather has been excessively windy and rainy but I’ve been continually propped up by everyone’s hardy festive spirit! I will also never tire of seeing someone’s face light up when they get their hot drink, hence this new project: “photos of people taking photos of their coffee” 😍

My favourite moment this week was selling a double espresso to a man, who walked away only to return a moment later saying it was one of the best espressos he had ever tasted and asking if he could buy some beans. that’s on you! Happy customers are what makes this all worthwhile ✨

Hopefully this week and the last weekend will bring us some crisp winter sunshine ☀️ 🥶

Cuteness overload 🥹

It’s a beautiful sunny day here at Plymouth Christmas market!

Hot off the printing press thanks to , and just in time for which starts TOMORROW!! 🎄🤶🏼

Buying branded compostable eco friendly cups is unrealistically expensive, and stamping cups is my usual go to, but waiting for the ink to dry makes it time consuming. I recently saw an Instagram post by and was totally inspired by their gorgeous sleek looking cups, so I’ve decided to do a limited run of these 😍

Let me know in the comments which colour you think looks best!

💜 Purple (my personal fave!)
❤️ Red?
💙 Blue (to match my hair?!)
💚 Green?
🧡 or thé OG orange 🍊

I Will be at the Christmas market in Plymouth from tomorrow every day until December 17th, selling a range of delicious hot drinks, boozy coffees and (for the first time ever!!!!) retail coffee from my babes at - the perfect Christmas gift ☕️🎁

My absolute loves 💜

Happy Anniversary 🥳🥳🥳

I am SO proud to share Jungle Coffees birthday with the incredible as I traded for the first time ever here, at the first ever Gone Wild Fest! Lovely to see familiar faces in the campsite each year, and new ones too 🫶🏼 Thanks for having me again!

Beautiful Days ❤️ Sunshiney set ups; family time with .mca and our boy; hundreds and thousands of wasps; a rainy Friday; my longest shift on record (18 hours); sore feet sore hands warm heart; best girls ever . We didn’t manage to take many pics because we were so busy shaking espresso martinis and bashing out the coffees, but I have a super duper team of gorgeous girls who had my back through thick and thin. I also got to meet and managed to sneak away and watch their set ❤️

And of course my obligatory birthday song Sunday at midnight, followed by a scorching hungover pack down 😅 bit of a rubbish birthday but hopefully there will be plenty more to come!! Next up,

Photo dump numero uno 👌🏼

Hot summer days at the studio, coffee over ice, dick pics and vintage chocolate bars. Beautiful people, Lem and Joe and Jackie boy, matching plaits.

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THATS A FRICKIN WRAP!!! 🥳🥳🥳

4 months of hard graft, living out of a suitcase, existing in a bubble, making thousands of coffees… mission complete!

It’s late, I have so many mixed emotions, SO much to share (expect a few photo dumps in the coming weeks) but all I can say for now is that this production has been a wild long journey, this crew are an unbelievable bunch of beautiful souls, and I feel so grateful to have been a part of it. 🥹

Hometime very soon…

… It’s annoying that I almost never get to use lovely fancy cups, and I’m almost always making coffee in a rush. However there almost always seems to be some kind of squiggle no matter how rushed for time 😂 Swipe for dick pics. 👌🏼

Can’t WAIT to see this! ‘Firebrand’ , starring Alicia Vikander and Jude Law, has been screened at Cannes Film Festival and it was my absolute delight to make coffees for the crew. It was also a joy to be in the Peak District for two months! ❤️

This time last year 🥰🥰🥰

First photos of Jude Law's new film Firebrand shot entirely at Haddon Hall Jude Law’s new movie Firebrand was shot entirely at Derbyshire stately home Haddon Hall, it has been revealed in the week of the premiere at Cannes Film Festival.

Photo dump! We are finally back in a studio (no more travelling!) A month pretty much solidly on location has been all consuming and totally EXHAUSTING (but a lot of fun!)

Moving locations from day to day is exciting and fun, and also long hours, a lot of driving, extra crew, and hard work… Especially when you do something really silly like leave your car keys inside your car after a 13 hour coffee stint when you still need to tow the trailer to the next location which is an hour away (when you know full well that your car likes to automatically lock itself sometimes 😬) The crew tried every trick in the book to try to essentially break in to my car (whilst I basically pretended it wasn’t happening… avoidance tactic) but nothing worked, so I called a professional and it took him a cool ten minutes (swipe for pics!) … this man is my saviour and I hugged him pretty hard once i had my keys 😂

In other news I met a robot dog.

The joys

The first production I ever worked for a year and a half ago is now officially OUT in the cinema!!! (swipe across to see my first ever film credits, woooop!)

I went to see it in Notting Hill today with my dear and boy am I glad I didn’t go alone… I didn’t foresee how emotional an experience it would be, recognising each location, and in a way having done Harold’s journey with the trailer. That journey taught me so much, gained me lifelong friends and basically changed my life forever 🥹 The production trawled from South Devon right up to Berwick-upon-tweed, briefly into Scotland before trundling back down to London. So many sunsets, beautiful skies, storms, long drives, cows on the road, hotels, tears, and everything in between!

So as you can imagine, I sobbed from start to finish in the cinema 😂

The film is beautiful, heavy and hard to watch in places, but beautiful nonetheless ❤️ The soundtrack by is also stunning 🙌🏼

Massive congratulations to everyone who worked so hard on this film, you all did such a great job 🥹

Yesterday was the halfway point for this mammoth job! It’s been an emotional rollercoaster, with a mixed bag of day and night shoots so I feel completely jet lagged! I have been keeping the crew alive with tunes, vibes and good coffee, and they have been keeping me alive with hugs, fresh playlists (and most recently by drawing faces on all of my milk bottles) . We had our first proper crew ‘night out’ a few days ago and, honestly, a lot of us had to dig deep to complete the night shoots with a smile at the end of it 😂

I want to take a moment to talk about welfare. Bearing in mind that, for the most part I am a one woman business, towing the trailer around, setting it up, working long hours, driving around in the middle of the night, staying in hotels and air BnBs, organising stock deliveries… it’s really hard work and sometimes can be overwhelming, but also being a one woman team can feel a little scary. … Last year a former crew member sent me inappropriate messages long after the production had wrapped, which made me feel very uncomfortable ; and when we arrived at our new location up north, and this same man had been hired on this job, my heart started to race and I couldn’t stop shaking! I never ever wanted to see him again! The production were AMAZING and sorted it so fast I never even had to see the guy. I feel very held and safe amongst this crew of kind humans, and I am so so grateful for that. 🙏🏼 a few years ago I was physically harassed by an older man who was my superior at a previous job, and I didn’t feel confident enough to report it. Now I wish I had, because I’ve realised I don’t have to put up with that s**t anymore!

So if you skip to the last photo (sorry the selection isn’t the best this week, I’ve been too busy to take photos!!!) this is a gentle reminder to all those people who believe that the cashier/waitress/barista is giving you the eye, or falling in love with you a bit more every time they make you drinks. They aren’t. 🙏🏼

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These two! 😍 Big ups to .mca and for covering the trailer for me so I could go to my sister in laws hen weekend 😍

Always got time for an animal print photo shoot

Just another Monday 😍

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First week settled in a studio… have bumped into some old pals including my fave from past productions; knocking out the latte/hot chocco art where time allows; occasional moments of sunny calm amidst a lot of grey rainy studio; planning for some mad weeks ahead but enjoying being in one place for a couple of weeks! is the best oat milk all the way.

Night shoots, more locations, more hotels, coffee on tap baby! Keeping the crewdem caffeinated!

Snow turns to water; hints of beauty; no glamour to be found; hotels are weird places; night shoots and coffee are a combination designed by the gods. Week two be gone with you!!

Life on the road, week one: living out of a tiny suitcase; stupid long hours; bags under my eyes; staying with friends I haven’t seen in years (and stealing precious moments with their tiny humans); lots and lots of driving; towing a small coffee shop on wheels through the middle of busy London traffic; a few tears; a few wines; the embarrassment of loading my trolly with 20 bottles of milk and 15 bottles of oat milk in Tescos; sugar explosion in my car; missing my boys already ; and all in the name of making a lot of coffees for a crew of delightful, tired, hard working humans. One week down, 15 to go!

I won’t be able to post too many pics on location, but I will do my best to share the highs and the lows of the journey…. It’s exciting and hard all at once! In the words of “the top of the mountain is nothing without the climb” 🙏🏼

I am so proud to have caffeinated the crew and cast of this film 🥹

New emotional trailer unveiled for The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry From the director of Normal People, the beloved best-selling novel is being adapted for the big screen.