An appeal in our Friendly Email has bought a fascinating batch of Quaker blogs to our attention. Probably the most developed is Quaker Quaker which is a "guide to the Quaker conversation". As it rightly points out and as Judy Tretheway also wrote to us, blogs provide a way to "let our lives speak" and it is blogs like Quaker Quaker which can trace threads and stop the conversation turning into chatter!

This post by Quaker Quaker founder Martin Kellaway explore the ways in which Friends and Seekers use the internet and makes interesting reading, especially in revealing a divide between those embracing the brave new world and those - in the writer's opinion - sticking with their smaller established reality.

A person could spend an enormous amount of time delving around the wealth of links. I will get round to adding them in the end but, for now, I have explored too much. Back to work!

Oh, but first - happy new year to all our readers in Russia! Peter from St Petersburg wrote to say "Living with two Christmas's and two New Years is a very civilised approach to Winter! I recommend it!" We in the office are struggling with January and I couldn't agree more. Maybe it's time for Friends to adopt all times and seasons, instead of none-except-Christmas.