23rd December 2016

Friendship

by Bob Lovett
23rd December 2016

Only us

by Simon Fisher
23rd December 2016

The Christmas story

by Bernard Coote
23rd December 2016

Hoar frost

by Rosie Adamson-Clark
23rd December 2016

Meeting in Swarthmoor

by Rex Ambler
23rd December 2016

Christmas rhyme

by Heather Trickey
23rd December 2016

Hallelujah

by Martyn Kelly
23rd December 2016

Born in you

by Tony D’Souza
23rd December 2016

Young Friends

by Catherine Henderson

Looking closely When did you last go for a walk – not to get anywhere in particular, not to go from A to B, but just to linger and look? Most of the time we are in too much of a…

23rd December 2016

From the archive: 1916

by Janet Scott

The year 1916 had been a brutal one, with the Somme and Verdun exacting a terrible loss of life and enormous casualties on both sides. In the final edition of the year the Friend…

23rd December 2016

An alternative Christmas

by Barbara Toyne
16th December 2016

Thought for the Week: Fear or hope

by Ian Kirk-Smith

In December 1916 Britain faced a third Christmas of conflict. The war had not been ‘over by Christmas’ 1914 – as young volunteers had been told in the autumn of that year.…