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In His Prime	[Jun. 16th, 2026\|10:17 am] Tony Grist
Three pix of Marlowe in his prime. he was a big cat. By the end he'd lost around half of his original adult body weight
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Word Gets Round	[Jun. 16th, 2026\|09:54 am] Tony Grist
The local wildlife know we no longer have a cat. I guess they can read the energy. This morning I've seen a mouse and a rat in close proximity to the house. Never have done before. I knew they were around but up till now they've kept their distance. Marlowe's mere presence must have acted as a deterrent, because he posed no actual threat to them. He wasn't much of a hunter. Back in the day he'd catch voles and shrews and bring them into the house- alive. Anything bigger was safe. He never took on a rat- and the ones at the farm got used to him. They'd play around the bird feeder right under his nose and he'd just sit and watch them like it was a floor show.
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Marlowe	[Jun. 16th, 2026\|07:17 am] Tony Grist
Marlowe was old and sick. He had arthritis and dementia and some condition- only guessed at- that was making him lose weight. Yesterday we had a nice young woman come out to help him over the final hurdle. He had been with us something like 12 years. It'll take us a while to adjust. Off you go, Marly, into the meadowlands. Have fun.....
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Jytte	[Jun. 15th, 2026\|11:21 am] Tony Grist
So, I've done some digging and I find "J" is on Facebook and her first name is Jytte- which is pronounced You-tah- with the emphasis on the first syllable- so not unpronouncable at all, just daunting to the English eye.....
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"J"	[Jun. 15th, 2026\|09:47 am] Tony Grist
"J" is a regular attender. I call her "J" not just to conceal her identity but because it's what she asks us to call her. Her real name is Danish and- she maintains- unpronouncable . She is also a spirit medium and Spiritualist minister, who turns up sometimes wearing her dog collar. She's well-known in Denmark, maybe less so over here- where she now lives. I'd asked her to give us a talk and yesterday she did. I was nervous because it would have been my fault if it had fallen flat, but I needn't have worried because she's used to standing on platforms- and did famously. I know something about spiritualism and so does Ailz and so does Edna but I think the subject was new to everyone else. I'm always taken aback by how very few people care to look into the subject.....
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Let's Not Fight.....	[Jun. 14th, 2026\|09:14 am] Tony Grist
Quakers veer to the left and a Friend who admires right-wing demagogues like Rupert Lowe is an anomaly, but not so much of an anomaly that he wouldn't find supporters among the Friends if he made a point of broadcasting his views. There is a potential here for in-fighting and schism. As a Quietist I think we should leave our political views at the Meeting House door, though I'm aware that this is also a political view. Some people love conflict and thrive on it. I don't. Not any more.....
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A Bit Wild	[Jun. 13th, 2026\|03:34 pm] Tony Grist
I cut the grass. Or, rather, I cut some of it. I like a garden to be a bit wild.....
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Disclosure Day- As If......	[Jun. 13th, 2026\|09:05 am] Tony Grist
Steven Spielberg is a member of the elite. He'll have been read into a lot of their secrets. I think he feels a certain nostalgia for the days before he owned a yacht and that accounts for the sentimentality that oils his movies. They are big machines that leak blood. I gather there's no particular need to see his latest one, Disclosure Day. It has aliens in it but tells us very little about them. It's basically a tease.... His elite friends will have said, "OK, we sort of want to you to tell the little people this, but on no account must you tell them that...." I think he'd like to tell us that- the way Stanley Kubrick did- but his elite pals have got him by the balls.....
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It's A Pity	[Jun. 12th, 2026\|11:40 am] Tony Grist
We have a Friend (Capital "F" meaning Quaker) who appears to be lapsing into strident Islamophobia. He quotes Rupert Lowe and Ant Middleton with approval. He is also very old and ill- and it's a pity.... It would be a matter for private grief if he weren't doing all he can do to propagate his views. Who'd have thought we'd have to tell a fellow Quaker not to be such a fascist. For those who don't know, Rupert Lowe is a 68 year old businessman and politician who used to be with Reform but has since formed his own party, somewhat to the right of Nigel Farage, because he wants to be The Leader. MAGA likes him and Elon Musk backs him. And Ant Middleton is a former SAS man who gets into scrapes and has been threatening that all it'll take is for him and his mates to say the word and millions will rise up and there'll be Civil War in the UK. We did our best to fight fascism yesterday by welcoming three women from the East Sussex Interfaith Group to our Meeting- one of whom was a Muslim. They wanted to find out what we're about. We talked to them, included them in our worship, gave them coffee and cake and a good time was had by all.
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Second Childhood	[Jun. 12th, 2026\|07:38 am] Tony Grist
I was watching raindrops race one another down the window pane. Sometimes they go fast, sometimes they dawdle and sometimes one of them will pause or hit obstacles so it's a real race. Unpredictable. You could place bets. Sometimes they run together and became one. And then I remembered a poem by A.A. Milne on just this subject. I looked it up. It's called "At the Window" and it's in Now We Are Six- the second collection of Christopher Robin poems. The child in the poem follows the progress of two raindrops- one called James and the other called John. John is his favourite. John wins. Well I never, I don't believe I've thought of that for sixty years or more......
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