Shuffling breaks appear to have been greatly missed at YM this year. All that intensity in the constitutional sessions rather kept Friends rigidly in their seats for too long. Alison Leonard stretched her legs in our Letters column last week, complaining of the restriction, and Cathy Eglington wondered to us whether the fact everyone was tired out the next day was the reason they let the new membership proposals through without a hitch. She did want to speak about her MM’s experience with old and new methods but found the new clerk’s technique of ‘sort of half standing up holding the minute book, whilst sort of looking around to see if anyone was standing’ rather inhibiting. That’s a neat tactic Martin!