Posts Tagged ‘ Chocolate ’

Forget the box, I want what’s inside!

Forget the box, I want what’s inside!

Early on Easter morn, just before dawn, as the chorus of birds are beginning, all over the land children rush down to the breakfast table to see how much chocolate they have conned various relatives into buying this year! Later that afternoon, cardboard and foil wrappers litter the living room floor, discarded in favour of the sweet brown delight that lurks within each one of them. Do we blame them? Well no, because we were once like that with chocolate smeared grins of satisfaction and who are we to deny the innocent pleasure in chocolate! Chocolat is such a...

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Various Items of Food

Various Items of Food

Well it is our harvest on Sunday. The grain has been milled into flour, if all goes well…   by tomorrow I should have a (literally) home grown loaf! The Chillies are now chilli marmalade, some others are almost chilli jelly. Fairtrade cadbury’s is just mmmmmm…. FairTrade Cadbury’s Dairy Milk

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A day for good news

Cadbury Dairy Milk and the Fairtrade Foundation !!

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Random College Entry

  • America

    My first impression of the scenes from the southern states amidst the devastation were along the lines of well that’s ‘Fat America’ for you, screaming for food and water after two days, I also thought there was no dignity in these people as there always seemed to be when watching pictures of starving Africans. (Why is it we always see these awful pictures and still do nothing, or very little??) But then, after watching a few news reports and searching various other information sites, it appears that the fat and the rich were able to get out, get away from the centre of the storm. As usual it was the poor who were left behind, those who did not have transport, could not afford to move, did not have access to all the information and what else can you expect, but looting and scared mothers screaming for food and rescue, because living in the shadow of the rich for so long these people have been liberated and rejected in the same breath. This mornings office reading was James 4:13 to 5:6.

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