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Belonging
"Are you visitors?" asked the lady who was also looking at jewellery in the antique/junk shop. "No", said Ailz, " We live in Eastbourne."
It always gives me a a kick- a little jolt of belonging and local pride- to hear that stated...
We are in fact valued customers of that particular shop- meaning we bought a ring there once before. The shop-lady recognised us- and that felt good as well.
It's a shop where you have to ring the bell and get buzzed in. A bunch of teenagers- boys and girls- probably foreign students and harmless- buzzed and got turned away. The shoplady explained herself to us; it was almost an apology. Big shop. Lots of cabinets to hide behind. Impossible for one person to monitor....
Earlier I was sitting in the courtyard at the Meeting House, in the sun with J- who is a Quaker of very long standing- explaining Quakerism to a woman who had dropped by for the Thursday morning Meeting for Worship....
It always gives me a a kick- a little jolt of belonging and local pride- to hear that stated...
We are in fact valued customers of that particular shop- meaning we bought a ring there once before. The shop-lady recognised us- and that felt good as well.
It's a shop where you have to ring the bell and get buzzed in. A bunch of teenagers- boys and girls- probably foreign students and harmless- buzzed and got turned away. The shoplady explained herself to us; it was almost an apology. Big shop. Lots of cabinets to hide behind. Impossible for one person to monitor....
Earlier I was sitting in the courtyard at the Meeting House, in the sun with J- who is a Quaker of very long standing- explaining Quakerism to a woman who had dropped by for the Thursday morning Meeting for Worship....