Bad Quaker

[poliphilo]

 "it's called The Religious Society of Friends" says Ailz.

"I prefer Society of Friends," I reply firmly.

And that's what I will call it in anything I say or write. That word "religious" ever so slightly gives me the creeps.

As do words like "God", "worship", "prayer". 

Which puts me in line with Tony Biggin, the composer, who gave us a very good talk on Non-theism yesterday. 

He identifies as a "bad Quaker". If anyone thinks of marketing T shirts with that on the front I'll buy one.

After the Meeting we took Rosamund home to Polegate and then we kept on driving.....

The pub at Wilmington is called The Long Man, referencing the chalk-cut hill figure it sits beneath. We went there a couple of times before Covid when it was called The Giant's Rest.; it was good then and it's good now. There are prints by Eric Ravilious on the wall. This is a storied land....

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[wantedonvoyage]

I wish we had more cool old pubs and fewer chain restaurants with a manufactured "history" (thankfully private equity firms seem to be doing a good job killing them off).

When we go to Vermont in June I am hoping to stop at this place on a forested road called the Man of Kent. They make good hamburgers.

[poliphilo]

If you come from the western half of the County of Kent you're a Man of Kent, if you come from the eastern half you're a Kentish man. My father was a Man of Kent.

[cmcmck]

I'm a maid of Kent.

[paserbyp]

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Bad, bad, very bad….