My Personal Fairtrade Fortnight Challenge
This fortnight, I will only be buying fair trade and organic… Monday saw the start of Fairtrade Fortnight and I decided to set myself the challenge of only buying fairtrade and organic products for...
Author: Helen
What are we teaching our children?
It’s halfway through half term and my life is overwhelmed with children. With no time or energy to think about anything else, I focus my thoughts on children and the question that my Dad...
Hope For Better…
Ever seen the film The Number 23? In it, the main character is confronted with the number 23 everywhere he looks. It’s been like that with the word HOPE for me this year. On...
Have it all – at what cost?
When I heard of SkiDubai, the world’s largest indoor ski centre, I felt convinced to the core that the world had indeed gone completely mad. An area of 22 500 sq m (the size...
Givers and Takers
It seems to me that people are largely divided into two groups – the givers and the takers. On walking into a new job, a classroom or a party, there will always be those...
The Knowledge of Good and Evil
Last night, my sixteen year old son told me that his girlfriend had said something really nice about me. I anticipated what it might be – perhaps a compliment about my appearance, personality or...
It takes energy to save energy…
To be praised by my thirteen year old son on my choice of Christmas presents was one of the high points of the festive season for me. He, of course, has no concept of...
Planned, Did – Now For The Review!
Applying Plan Do Review (ask any Primary age child for an explanation) to Christmas, I am now at the review stage. I planned with much thought, did with much effort and come to review...
New Year, New Hope
So how many of you made a New Year’s resolution today? Every year, millions of us make resolutions on January 1st ……to go on a diet, to get to work on time, to go...
Less guilt, less stress this Christmas
Christmas is a stressful time of year, of that there is no doubt. At a time where we are required to be jolly, full of good cheer and be having the time of our...
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