Eye - 22 June 2012

From Huddersfield to Pickering

Huddersfield bouncers

A bouncy castle in a burial ground? Eye was intrigued to hear about a Jubilee celebration.

Huddersfield Friends took part in the Paddock street party – they hosted a bouncy castle, stalls in the garden and made toilets available for the public.

Mike Glover told Eye: ‘Many hundreds of people joined in the party, enjoying live music of various kinds, stilt walkers, the town crier, lots of food, donkey rides and a full-size fairground carousel. The huge bouncy castle was a major attraction, with a queue still forming after the time for closing.’

He added: ‘It was a great event and a rare opportunity for us to share in something with the local community… How big the queue would have been if they had realised they were in a burial ground I’m not sure!’

Pedalling through Pickering

Friends in Yorkshire will be hopping on their bikes and taking to the road next weekend, 22 and 23 June, to cycle 120 miles in aid of the Barmoor 100th Birthday Appeal.

They will be visiting Scarborough, where George Fox was imprisoned in the castle; staying overnight in Pickering, where the North Yorkshire railway chugs past the old Meeting House garden; and dropping in on all six Pickering and Hull Area Meeting Houses. For further details or to join in: 01482 327574 / 645905.

A Quaker bank?

One rumour doing the rounds at BYM was readily believed: that a Quaker bank was going to be set up. In the past, of course, Quakers established banks such as Barclays and Lloyds. The rumour even reached the Large Meeting House, where a Friend wondered whether it was true. The same question was asked by a Friend who attended the Friend’s garden party. Guests were fed homemade cakes and biscuits washed down with lashings of homemade lemonade. A Friend said, with the sun at its hottest, ‘homemade is a bit of a sure-fire investment on a day like this.’ He was right. The rumour was wrong.

Watch out Kraft

Real Cadbury’s chocolate cakes are now on offer in Yorkshire!

Eye hears that Erica Cadbury of Keighley Meeting has put the oven on ready to bake lots of fundraising cakes. The money generated will help her daughter Esther join an International Service project in Bolivia this summer.

Just in case there’s anyone who doesn’t like chocolate, other options include currant streusel, lemon drizzle and a delicious 2lb fruit loaf (err… shouldn’t that be Fruit and Nut loaf, Erica?).

Enthusiastic sustainability

William Waddilove contacted Eye with this photo, taken during Yearly Meeting at Friends House, London.

He writes: ‘It seems that the enthusiasm for this sustainability project and the saving of fuel is catching on… one heating engineer told me that there is nothing more efficient than OFF.’

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