Low Impact Living Initiative

Here's the first in the new series of blogs... a link to the Low Impact Living Initiative. It aims to help people to lower their impact on the environment.

It gives some no-nonsense advice about places to start, instructions, a forum to ask questions, and lots of links and information.

Quaker week and the Quaker Centre

This week is Quaker week, a time for turning ourselves outwards and promoting the Quaker way to people outside our meetings. Many meetings have open days or hold events during this week.

This year is different, because the Quaker Centre has opened at Friends House and is hosting events to celebrate Quaker week. The picture above shows the worship roomin the Quaker centre. I did a shift as a vounteer on Monday and Wednesday afternoon at the centre, and will be there again on Friday.

It occurred to me as I was reading one of my favourite blogs - boingboing - this morning, that I could do a number of things in the real world and the virtual world to celebrate Quaker week. The first thing I am going to do is to start posting here about things which may interest Quakers. Items on living simply, truth and integrity, social justice, silent worship.

The second thing I am going to do is to set up a regular event in SL for Quaker questions and answers.

Human Library

I must admit that until I posted the poster ideas here the other day, I had more or less forgotten about this blog, as I have so many others which I maintain. I will try to do better. In searching for addresses for meeting houses, I came across this page. I absolutely love this idea... it seems to me that in giving an enquirer the chance to "borrow" a specific Quaker, it might make people a whole lot more comfortable with the idea.

Posting some ideas for posters here:

Hospital this week

I don't expect to be around much ths week, as my son Ali goes into hospital on Tuesday to have his colostomy reversed.

Please hold us in the light as he goes through the week, which is likely to be quite difficult for him. I will try to post regularly once I get back to a routine next week.
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Blog and website changes

Originally I set up this blog to be a place to hold the information I was discovering in relation to Uxbridge Meeting's 350th anniversary, because Uxbridge local meeting didn't have an official website. The meeting does now have an official website, and so I have changed this blog to be a personal blog, with information about Uxbridge meeting's history contained in separate blogsites.

New Quaker forum

There is a new forum for Quakers on BYM website, which is at http://www.quakerweb.org.uk/forum. There is not a lot of discussion going on at the moment, mainly because there don't appear to be any links to the forum from the main website, something I have pointed out to the forum peeps.

There are still a few enquirers and seekers asking questions, who would benefit from some experienced Quaker answers.