Know Thy Friend- Helen Bayes

Know Thy Friend- Helen Bayes

Know Thy Friend- Helen Bayes Helen Bayes Victorian Friends celebrated the 80th birthday of Helen Bayes in a joyous gathering at the Victorian Quaker Centre in June 2024, so imagine my surprise when Helen told me she had attended her first Meeting for Worship for...
Remembering Jackie Perkins

Remembering Jackie Perkins

Remembering Jackie Perkins Jackie Perkins with girls at Pitchandikulam Bio Resource Centre, Tamil Nadu, South India A great sadness has descended on QSA, its partners, associates, and the wider Quaker community. When Jackie Perkins died suddenly on 20 March, 2025, a...
Love They Neighbour

Love They Neighbour

Love They Neighbour I was woken by voices in the distance.  Calm voices but insistent.  I got up and went to my window.  So did my cat!  We both wondered what was going on.  The voices said the same sort of thing: “just come down, come down, it’s all okay, just come...

Know thy Friend

David Evans South Australia and Northern Territory Regional Meeting Now aged 84 for both of us, it is 50 + years since Topsy and I moved to Tasmania, sent by my employer to work at the Commonwealth Pathology Laboratory in Hobart. After 10 years of moving from here to...

Know Thy Friend: “a child of the British Empire”

Ann Zubrick, West Australia Regional Meeting Recently, while I was visiting friends and colleagues in Hong Kong, I was described as “one of the generation of children of the British Empire”. I’d not previously thought of myself in quite those terms although I...