A Miscellany
Jun. 3rd, 2026 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphilo We had planned for the Quakers to walk in this year's Pride Parade with our big new yellow banner stretched across the road, but no-one did anything much about it and the people who might have led the charge have left the Meeting and the parade's organisers have no record of our initial interest and the date is almost upon us- so it's not going to happen. Could we have mustered enough bodies, anyway? Probably not. There are two types of Quaker- the activists and the quietists- and I'm a quietist so was never going to be the one to rally support. I would have marched, though; I'd even bought myself a ridiculous hat (which was featured in a recent post.) I'm quiet, but not that quiet.
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"We're not set up for a comfortable retirement" says Ailz
I say "Ah".
"We don't have enough money for it," says Ailz.
I say "Ah" again.
"This is the Daily Mail talking," says Ailz.
I go "Ah" for the third time.
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When the wind whistles- as it's doing right now- I go back in thought to my grandparents' bungalow on the cliff at Rottingdean- not so very far along the coast from here- and time is telescoped- and the things that I remember happening there in my childhood could have happened yesterday....
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"We're not set up for a comfortable retirement" says Ailz
I say "Ah".
"We don't have enough money for it," says Ailz.
I say "Ah" again.
"This is the Daily Mail talking," says Ailz.
I go "Ah" for the third time.
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When the wind whistles- as it's doing right now- I go back in thought to my grandparents' bungalow on the cliff at Rottingdean- not so very far along the coast from here- and time is telescoped- and the things that I remember happening there in my childhood could have happened yesterday....
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Date: 2026-06-03 02:15 pm (UTC)