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The Carbon Fast – Tearfund Lent Campaign
For Lent this year Tearfund are running a Carbon Fast Campaign. It’s a suggestion from them to try and make an impact, however small it may be, to use this time of Lent to affect a tangible change on the lives of those around the world who are worst affected by climate change. Each day … Continue reading
Tearfund: Rice and Beans Challenge
Hi this is Chris’ wife Linda Hoskins. For the next week any blogs you see here will be written by me. Starting tomorrow myself and our friend Dave will begin the Tearfund rice and beans challenge. The basics of this is to bring more awareness to ourselves about those who are going through severe poverty. … Continue reading
A day in the Sindh Province; A Photo Essay
I’ve been back from Pakistan for almost 3 days now, just today getting a chance to sit down and start processing the photos I took. I’ve only kept 2,300 out of the 5000+ that I took over there, so it should only take a few days! I’m going to upload a few photo essays as … Continue reading
A visit to the Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly
So last Monday I went to visit the Church of Scotland National Youth Assembly, I mentioned a wee bit of ehat thr event means to me in my last Blog post and will delve a bit deep into that in another post, this post is going to be just about last Monday! The theme of … Continue reading
Writers block?
so, I’ve been very, very inactive on here over the last wee while, something I”m not happy at all about! I’m not sure why I have been inactive, I’m certainly not short of things to write about – CLAN Gathering, Tearfund, World Mission Council, Canada, Cyprus, Hoskins Gallery, Starting a business, Pakistan…..if these things … Continue reading
General Assembly and Social Media
Social Media seems to be, rightly so, playing a bigger and bigger role in the assembly as the years go by. People attending the assembly are tweeting, blogging and flickering more each year. People following online are doing the same. I thought it might be useful for me to list a few blogs and people … Continue reading
Cove Church
For those of you who don’t know, I currently attend Cove Church in Aberdeen. The church is a Church of Scotland New Charge Development. I serve the Church in technical ways, helping with the powerpoint presentations and with the sound system. Over the last few weeks myself and 2 others (David Ogilvie and Phil Noble) … Continue reading
Preparing for Nepal
In 11 days I’ll be heading to Nepal as part of a CMS Encounter trip to Nepal. There are 6 of us making the trip (myself, Chuli Scarfe, Suzi Shortland, Joanna Ramsay, Pete Brady and John Boyd) and we’ll be out there for 2 weeks (unfortunately Pete can only join us the 2nd week). The … Continue reading
Stages of a photographer
I’m a member of a photography forum called ‘Talk Photography‘ a great forum for general photo chat and help and advice about all aspects of photography! One of the members posted a link to the picture below today, which i found very interesting and quickly pinpointed myself on the chart! Do you agree with the … Continue reading
More changes?
So, you may have noticed that, right at the top of the page a new page has appeared on my page. I’m still getting to grips with things, but once I’m accustomed to the controls etc, this new page will be showing a selection of my photographs. I’m quite excited, I’m starting to get my … Continue reading