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poliphilo ([personal profile] poliphilo) wrote2024-10-10 08:01 am

Never Say "Never"

 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..... 
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[personal profile] cmcmck 2024-10-10 08:22 am (UTC)(link)
I was a trustee of a halfway house for homeless people over Kilburn way when I attended Ealing meeting during our time living on Acton.

I quite enjoyed it.