Eye - 07 June 2013
From dead badgers to fairy-clad clerks
Spotted at Yearly Meeting
Eye’s elves were busy espying giggle-worthy tid-bits at Yearly Meeting…
Friends dangling their soon-to-be discarded name badges had their attention caught by ‘Dead Badgers’ signs around Friends House.
Whoever conjured up a playful approach to badge-related administration, Eye salutes you!
Whilst ambling towards Friends House, Gay Pilgrim snapped a Q Scaffolding van pausing in traffic on Euston Road (below). ‘Was it arriving to uphold Yearly Meeting?’ she wondered.
S I G C C J S C Q P S W C C B Y M R S F C K Q
Quaker acronyms flew through the air with wild abandon at Yearly Meeting.
Jamie Wrench set out on a mission to find the longest one… only to discover it at his own special interest group!
‘I introduced myself at the Special Interest Group for the Crime, Community and Justice Sub Committee of Quaker Peace & Social Witness Central Committee of Britain Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends Commonly Known as Quakers [see above] as the clerk of said sub committee. By the time I’d finished… it was almost time to conclude the event!’
The gauntlet has been thrown, can any Friend offer a longer one?
A sprinkle of fairy dust
At seven years old, Amy Osborne-Challender of Telford Meeting (below) may well be the youngest assistant clerk.
Penny Osborne, her grandmother, writes: ‘We only have one young person but despite that she is a very active member of our Meeting. Her ministry of stillness and personal presence is amazing.’
Eye wonders whether Amy could also become a trendsetter. Will her snazzy fairy costume inspire other Business Meetings? Will Friends see a spate of fairy-clad clerks around the country?
