Never Say "Never"
Oct. 10th, 2024 08:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo Ailz is a trustee of the Quaker run Bernhardt Baron care home in Polegate.
(Baron was a tobacco king in the days before we worked out that smoking was vile and stupid. A Jew with a weakness for Quakers)
What did you talk about? I asked. And she reeled off an agenda I would rather sleep through than attend to.
"You could be a trustee too." she said.
"Never," I replied.
"You said the same about the Area Meetings," she said. "And you enjoy those."
And it's true. I do, I do.....
P.S. Ailz read this post and pointed out to me that she is actually a trustee of the Sussex East Area Meeting (SEAM) which meets at Bernhart Baron and is going to be a trustee of the Care Home. (How complicated.) I asked her if she wanted me to correct the text and she said she didn't care, but. still, in the interests of accuracy.....
(Baron was a tobacco king in the days before we worked out that smoking was vile and stupid. A Jew with a weakness for Quakers)
What did you talk about? I asked. And she reeled off an agenda I would rather sleep through than attend to.
"You could be a trustee too." she said.
"Never," I replied.
"You said the same about the Area Meetings," she said. "And you enjoy those."
And it's true. I do, I do.....
P.S. Ailz read this post and pointed out to me that she is actually a trustee of the Sussex East Area Meeting (SEAM) which meets at Bernhart Baron and is going to be a trustee of the Care Home. (How complicated.) I asked her if she wanted me to correct the text and she said she didn't care, but. still, in the interests of accuracy.....
