Posts Tagged ‘ Fairtrade ’

Fairtrade Clergy Shirts

Keep plugging away, eventually the tide will turn!! Since being away I’ve realised there is a bit of catching up to do, I’ve just responded to a note I left myself to order some fairtrade shirts.   Maggi Dawn mentioned it a week or so ago, so I’ve taken the plunge and ordered two.  The good thing about these shirts – or so they claim is that the labour is paid for fairly as well as the cotton!

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Fairtrade for foodies

Fairtrade for foodies

We have just set up a fairtrade stall in the church (at last) but for those of us who need no encouragement when it comes to chocolate items, this is rather a big challenge in self denial, so in solidarity with those who don’t want to eat too much chocolate I decided to help them by removing some of the temptation from their path. OK, I’m weak, but the Muffin’s are great!! Thanks to Lis for the stall!!

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Apathy…

You would think would you not that those within the churches (even those without a full understanding of a social gospel) would be falling over themselves to try to support the poor, needy etc. Fair-Trade it seems is a bit taboo, It’s a good idea, but I don’t want any… I don’t want anything to do with it… And such responses, Is there any hope?????

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Random College Entry

  • Last Wednesday

    Recycling. specifically relative recycling. Relative to what? Well no not that sort of relative, your granny, and old dear of some description. Yes we were somehow discussing these issues, I think it began when we tried to out wierd the local vicar You may think that we have spoken of this before, and you would be right, but this time it went all the way, right up to discussion of whether or not anyone would guess when discussing the issue What we actually did today, (that was of some benefit, not just the faffing about!) was to discuss the ways in which a big organisation which raises funds and gets funding from various bodies, drags all the funding towards itself, uses the money in strange and wonderful schemes, some of which work, some not, then help out all the other charities and small organisations to get funding, but wait it’s all gone – to where?!!! The afternoon was very pleasant, two villages one dead one alive, one with a dodgy graveyard, one with a million bookshops, (39 actually) oh and a rather nice deli, a number of posh boutiques and a rather good coffee shop! The other village had pubs [...]

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