A lovely story and in 1987 it graced our cinema screens with Anne Bancroft, Judi Dench Anthony Hopkins 😊👍
#84CharingCrossRoad

Interesting article, Tim. I am Lead Chaplain, Quaker. My team of volunteer Chaplains includes another Quaker, 3 Anglicans (different parishes)& a Baptist, in the Courts N.Somerset all 'employed' by the Church of England, Bath & Wells. I've learned a great deal & broadened my outlook over 5 years!

One of my favourite quotes, these words are often attributed to Stephen Grellet 1774-1855

🌹Winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize is Venezuelan democracy campaigner Maria Corina Machado recognised "for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela" and "her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy"🌹#NobelPeacePrize2025

@g4skm.bsky.social thank you for the follow. My dear Dad was a keen ham, call sign GM3CIX , now silent key. 😊

Brightening up my day, dog roses, rosa canine, at the seaside #Weston-super-mare #NorthSomerset

Photo of the entrance of the Royal College Building, Glasgow this week. A trip down memory lane. My first visit since 1972! #UniversityofStrathclyde @unistrathclyde.bsky.social #Glasgow

I was in Glasgow this week, a great city, and came across this Peacock sculpture above a building in Buchanan Street. Yes that is a real blue sky! #Glasgow #Scotland

Holding you in the Light, ✨️Barbara ✨️🌹❤️

I've joined 😊👍

More views from my visit to #Exeter #Devon 😊👍

Enjoying some time in #Exeter #Devon Photo Exeter Cathedral 😊☕️🍰

Marine Lake, Weston super Mare, calm seas

Photo taken yesterday on my walk, a calm sea. #Weston-super-mare #northsomerset

Love this, my favourite A & Q 😊❤️🌹

Thank you Blueskyers for the follows, much appreciated 😀🌹❤️🌷🪻💐🌻🌺🌼🌸🌹 #flower #thanks #HappyNewYear

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'My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you' #Shakespearesunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social Twelfth Night

'That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang
Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou see'st the twilight of such day' #shakespearesunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #sonnet73

As 2024 draws to a close, we pray that 2025 will bring Peace, Good Health and Happiness to all and we wish you a year filled with Friendship, Adventure and Opportunity!

#DAQC #QuakersDublin #QuakersIreland #FaithinAction

My view today, a dreary, sea mist obscures 😐 #knightstoneisland #lwestonsupermare #northsomerset

... and thank you for the inspiration and encouragement! Merry Christmas 🤶🎄#shakespearesunday

I celebrate that I have loving friends & family, a comfortable place to live with a fridge full of food. I am blessed. Sending much love to all those wonderful, devoted people working tirelessly with the homeless, the displaced and all those that seek refuge. 🙏❤️ #loveinaction #somewheretogo #crisis

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ For sixty years of my life I was very, painfully, ill if I drank fresh coffee although I loved the aroma! Bought a bag of organic coffee beans 5 years ago and tried coffee again, slowly & carefully! Now I love it, no ill effects to report to date.❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ #justsmudge #organic #trivia ☕️☕️☕️

'I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea,which shall not put my readers out of humour with themselves, with each other, with the season, or with me. May it haunt their house pleasantly and no one wish to lay it' CD #AChristmasCarol @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social

.... me too!😀👍

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'What place is this? asked Scrooge. 'A place where Miners live,who labour in the bowels of earth,' returned the Spirit. 'But they know me. See! @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #achristmascarol #dickens #Christmas2024

'I expect to pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I will not pass this way again.'
Stephen Grellet
1773 -1855
#Quaker #Friends #Kindness

My Christmas reading, by Quaker Avril Douglas Opperman, from Dublin about the life of Elizabeth Fry, pioneering social reformer, an extraordinary woman #Quaker #ElizabethFry @daqcfriends.bsky.social #Quakers

You elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves,
And you that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him When he comes back; you demi-puppets that
By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make.. Prospero, TT
@hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #shakespearesunday 🎅🎄🤶🧚‍♀️

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... Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.Heigh-ho! sing, heigh-ho! unto the green holly:
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then, heigh-ho, the holly!
This life is most jolly.'
A.Y.L.I. 🎅 @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #shakespearesunday