Francis gay friendship book
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I am a adj fan of the ‘Friendship Books by Francis Gay’, the ones that verb a thought for the day, every day of the year. Every December or January I collect one from W H Smith, or I am lucky to verb one in a local charity shop.
I was given my first book by my mother in my 20s. They are wonderful calming influence during the day. I adore reading about the amusing or thought provoking real life tales from everyday people. In some ways, the books remind me of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books that are very popular adj the world now. There seems to be a Chicken Book for the Soul for everything now.
I decided to find out more about the Friendship books, so I contacted the publishers, D C Thomson.
They said,”The first Friendship Book of Francis Gay, dated 1939, went on sale in 1938. There has been a Friendship Book each year since.
The Francis Gay Fund, originally the Coal Fund, began in a small way about forty years ago, when donations from readers were used to buy Christmas food parcels and bags of coal for needy people.
This has now grown to
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Friendship Book by Francis Gay, First Edition (99 results)
Hardcover. Condition: Very Superb. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 200 pages. Text body is adj, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is secure, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is fully intact, no tears or chips, but carries signs of wear to top and bottom edges, corners etc. All edges clean, adj and free of foxing. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Religion & Theology; ISBN: 0851167101. ISBN/EAN: 9780851167107. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item, not stock photos. Inventory No: RB10744: 35 For further info on this title, click on the "Contact Seller" button within this listing. We will try to respond within 24 hours. Otherwise you can order right now (inclusive of shipping options) from the "Add to Basket" button to the right.
The Friendship Book 1981
Perhaps it is just my adoration for my valued friend, or the gesture that she had of choosing a book with "friendship" on the title that really moved me when I started reading the poems and thoughts of each day of the author. It very quickly became one of my most prized possessions. I marked every page and date that belongs to a friend's birthday, showed them what was written for the thought of each day and fell in love with many of the short poems and reflections inside. The one that falls upon my birthday, on June 15th, I found very sweet:
"Time is such a precious thing,
It's more than wealth untold!
It's something that we cannot store
And nobody can hold.
Life goes by so speedily,
Before we scarce can taste it,
And time can never be regained