‘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
Eye - 19 May 2023
From Collective nouns to On this day
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!’
