Are Quakers associated with any particular decade in the public mind?
Not the sixties surely, although many of us lived our late teens and twenties during this much-maligned time. We don't think that there were many swinger Friends, so to speak. But someone has placed us in the 1970s for Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament's anniversary Aldermaston march.
Each gate to the weapons establishment will have a clutch of demonstrators dressed in many guises, representing the different decades of CND's existence. The 'nuclear cowboys' will be riding a 'radioactive' horse prop, among others costumes. Friends will be at the Home Office gate, and Eye is trying to remember what one wore in those days. Was it the long coats with fake-fur trim?
We are assured this is going to be a fun day out. What a far cry from the days when a radioactive horse would have sparked a full-scale security alert.

Labels: Aldermaston, CND, demonstration, nuclear