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
Sing a song of Swann Rosemary Mathew, of Cambridge Jesus Lane Meeting, popped this piccy in the Eye mailbag after spying a Quaker mention somewhere she hadn’t expected. She…
On this day Challenging questions – and the forbidden fruits of cheese, Marmite and broad beans – appeared in the page of the Friend on 5 January 1990, pouring from the pen of…
Quaker phrases Eye hopes this issue finds you curled up under a blanket with a cup of something warm and comforting. If you have a pen or pencil to hand, why not pass a minute or…
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