Shirley McCaw shares the delight her hobby brings her, plus an invitation to poetically-inclined Friends - Quaker-themed limericks, acrostics, or haikus are very welcome…
by Elinor Smallman
A song of living Many Friends are prompted by articles in the magazine to remember special moments or words from their lives. Patsy Robinson writes to Eye about her mother, Edna…
Universal Chorus at Ely Quaker Tapestry manager Bridget Guest and Roy Wilcock recently got some timely publicity for their CD Universal Chorus. BBC Television East Anglia paid a…
An Area Meeting yet to come… The clerk was at the table now And Friends were quiet and still. She counted all the people there The usual faces on each chair (though two of them…
Bankers on the Beeb Is the most sued man in British history a secret supporter of Quakers? Ian Hislop, the editor of Private Eye, presented a programme this week that cast a very…
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