Eye - 19 May 2023

18 May 2023 | by Elinor Smallman

From Collective nouns to On this day

‘I went on the climate demo on my own. In St James’s Park, as we settled for worship, another Friend approached me and said we had met before.' | Photo: courtesy of Jo Hallett

Collective nouns

Eye’s challenge to find a collective noun for a Friendly flocking (28 April) has had some intriguing suggestions:

‘A Discernment of Quakers’

Helen Tyas

‘A Peculiarity of Friends’

Marie Noon

‘A Quirk of Quakers’

Anon

What say you, Friends? Any other offers?

Finding Friends

A solo jaunt had surprising results for Jo Hallett of Coventry Meeting. She writes: ‘I went on the climate demo on my own. In St James’s Park, as we settled for worship, another Friend approached me and said we had met before. Indeed we had – at the Saffron Walden Summer School in 1961! Sixty years ago! Heather Brayshaw, from Worthing Meeting, and I joined together for the protest, with a small group of Quakers. Here we are outside Westminster Abbey!’

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