Recent Comments

1. Encourage Others To Go Generous - 09 Oct 2005

   Since going to the Living Generously Seminay at Greenbelt we are telling others about it locally. Lois was interview for an article about it in the Church Times!

2. Stop Taking Plastic Bags From Shops - 09 Oct 2005

   Very difficult to remember to take our own bags to the shops. This will take some time to become a habit!

3. Recycle Your Stuff - 09 Oct 2005

   Our local Council (North Somerset) are about to provide a better more frequent kerbside service. We now have three boxes laid out by the back door so that we can easily sort stuff ready to put out.

4. Give A Gift That Keeps On Giving - 09 Oct 2005

   Since our daughter introduced us to this with her ‘gifts’ we have given a couple of ‘goats’ and now plan to do this more extensively this Christmas.

5. Give Something Away - and declutter your life - 09 Oct 2005

   In our twenties we were both in voluntary work in Asia and literally lived out of a ‘backpack’. Now, after 20 years in large vicarages with children and pets we have sooo much stuff! De-cluttering has become a major challenge.

6. Wear Your 'Make Poverty History' Band - 09 Oct 2005

   ... Ken abseiled and put a banner on our church tower and challenged other churches to do the same and they did! Thank you to all who took up the challenge.

   Whenever we have given talks, taken assemblies etc. and encouraged others to wear the wristband we have said “please do two things – 1 Find out more about at least one of the three aims of MPH and 2 What are you going to do about it?”

7. Give Your Unwanted / Unworn Clothes To Charity - 09 Oct 2005

   We are slowly trying to declutter, sorting out clothes that we won’t wear again and giving them to local charity shops, or a box in church that we collect good second hand clothes, to send to a homeless project.