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Tearfund Rice and Beans Challenge
This week I’ll be following in the footsteps of my wife, Linda, and Dave in taking part of the Tearfund Rice and Beans challenge. Details of what it is all about can be found here. As well as my posts about the Carbon Fast, I’m going to be blogging about my experiences with the Rice … Continue reading
Carbon Fast – Day 3
So – day 3′s post is a little late, this is because I’m down in Glasgow taking photo’s at the Tearfund 24 hour prayer and Worship event. More about that later…. Day 3′s challenge was: Pass it on. Tell a neighbour or friend about the Carbon Fast and suggest one action they could do. Use … Continue reading
Carbon Fast – Day 2
Day 2 – again, this challenge required, on my part at least, any extra sacrifice on my part. The challenge was: Compost. Put nutrients from your food waste back into the soil, not into methane-emitting landfill. If you don’t have a garden, investigate other options like wormeries. We do have a garden, but we don’t … Continue reading
The Carbon Fast – Day 1
So today’s challenge in Tearfunds material is: Remove one light bulb in your home and live without it during Lent as a reminder of what you’re doing. My first decision was ‘Which light Bulb?’ it took me a while to work out which light bulb would be the biggest sacrifice for me in the … Continue reading
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
Day 5…We did it!
Well this is the final day of the challenge. I can’t say it has been a good day. Health wise my circulation began to go very strange yesterday. This intensified today and by the afternoon my hands and feet were blue and white. This was followed by a near fainting episode and back pain and … Continue reading
Day 4
Well day 4 and I feel much less angry today. In fact I don’t even feel hungry. I made breakfast ate half and couldn’t stomach it. Made lunch ate half and just looked at the rest. Thought about dinner couldn’t bring myself to eat it so didn’t even make it. I have had a lot … Continue reading
Day 2
I woke up this morning feeling quite good, not too hungry. I put off breakfast until about 8:15 (an unusual move for me I usually eat as I wake!) my morning was good. As I work from home I am alone a lot. I hate this at most times of the day but today with … 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
Out and about in Karachi; A Photo Essay
As well as spending time visiting the Diocese of Lahore and some of the communities affected by the flooding in the Sindh Province, we spent some time in Karachi city itself. Our first day in Karachi ended up being more touristy than we expected – our meetings for the day had to be postponed until … Continue reading