There was an ongoing problem at Sufferings on 4 November with feedback from the large Meeting House's PA system - mostly confined to a sort of vague droning. However, at one point it broke out into a quite audible question, to which the MfS clerk wondered, amidst much laughter: 'Is that the Voice of God, or something?'

And who says that Quakers are wedded to setting up endless committees? When a Minute commented on the work of a MfS group being 'wonderful', this was considered a touch too fulsome for one Friend - who suggested that the word 'interesting' be substituted instead. It drew from a long-suffering member of the group in question the dry observation, received with considerable mirth, that 'It would be "wonderful" if Meeting for Sufferings would lay the group down!'