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The Area Meeting was held in Eastbourne again. That's twice in a row- and twice since the coup against the area clerk that capped off so many months of unpleasantness. Given this recent history we seem to be in pretty good shape. The clerk's job is being performed by a holding group with the intention that a clerking team will take over later in the year. Teams are the way to go. They spread the ~~unpopularity~~ responsibility. It has helped with the healing, I think, that the Eastbourne Meeting is so welcoming. And good at cake. A chap I was talking to who has done a lot of Quakering but in a different part of the country said that yesterday's Meeting was the warmest and friendliest he'd ever been to.

We had three days of sunshine and we're now on the third day of mist. I need to cut the grass but it's just so wet.....