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COR/2023/088

Letter, Returning Member to a Convener

Kind:
Correspondence
Date:
4 September 2023
Origin:
Glasgow Circle
Access:
Open.

A member resumes attendance after four years away and asks a practical question about a delivery round. Printed with consent.

The Continuance Institute · The North House · Penobscot County · Maine

Dear Shazia,

I am coming back on Tuesday. I do not want anything made of it.

The practical question is the discharge meals. I had the Tuesday run from 2016 and I know from the December letter that Iqbal has had it since 2019. I am not asking for it back if it is working, and by the sound of the figures it is working better than it did when I had it.

What I would like, if it is going, is the Friday driving, or the washing up, or whatever is short. I am fifty-eight and my knees are worse than they were, so nothing with stairs if there is a choice, but there is generally a choice.

One more thing and then I will stop. I would be grateful if nobody asks me where I have been. I know that is the rule and I know I do not have to ask for it. I am asking anyway, because I would rather have said it than spend the evening waiting to find out.

See you Tuesday. I will come at six and set out the chairs.

— M. Docherty

Printed at the writer's suggestion in 2025, with her name and with two sentences removed at her request. The removal is recorded and its subject is not.

Catalogued at the North House · reproduction permitted for study · redactions are not itemised