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Thursday, 1 January 2009

Happy New Year

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Best wishes for the New Year to all readers of this blog.
Thursday, 4 December 2008

Improve Your Speaking Skills

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"Twenty Top Tips for Improving Your Speaking Skills" - The booklet to buy! - and so give money to the rainforest fund. I have coll...
Wednesday, 3 December 2008

Making Christmas Cards for the fund

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Here is a display of cards and calendars I made today to sell for the Rainforest Fund. And look - in Yorkshire we have snowy weather today!!...
Tuesday, 25 November 2008

Computer lessons

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A new way of raising money for the fund arose last week - A couple in our congregation asked me to go and help them with their computing, so...
Friday, 14 November 2008

Langcliffe Singers sing the Messiah

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Click here to see my post about Tuesday 14 Oct when BBC (songs of Praise) recorded Langcliffe singers practising. Songs of Praise will be b...
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Thursday, 13 November 2008

Teddy Bears Picnic Dancing at Hall

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Scottish Country Dancing this Thursday evening at the Church Hall provided an opportunity to 1) Support Children in Need - the dancing teach...
Wednesday, 12 November 2008

How to set up the Owl meter electricity monitor

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The Owl Energy Monitor, or smart meter, consists of a (1) magnet sensor which fits round a wire in coming out of your main electricity mete...
Thursday, 23 October 2008

Coffee - Rainforest Alliance - Fair-Trade - Bird Friendly - Shade grown - Utz Kapeh

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Coffee - It's not just a matter of is it fair trade or not - O,... no, no, no, no, no. There are several certification schemes, and othe...
Wednesday, 15 October 2008

Songs of Praise Settle Church Hall

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On going to set up the Fairtrade talk last night I discover that Langcliffe Singers who meet in the main room in the hall are to have a sin...
Tuesday, 14 October 2008

Fair Trade: becoming a Fair Trade Community

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A special speaker had asked me to arrange a meeting at the Church Hall this evening - John Anderson, formerly chair of Fairtrade Bradford - ...
Monday, 13 October 2008

World Species Loss hits the news

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The BBC website at says the global economy is losing much more money from the disappearance of forests than through the current banking c...
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Sunday, 12 October 2008

Five points that made our visit to Thorpe Perrow Arboretum a Success

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Digressing slightly from tropical forests - today I visited Thorpe Perrow Arboretum near Bedale in North Yorkshire. Five top points were: 1...
Tuesday, 30 September 2008

Cycle Jump at Settle

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After our service on Sunday 29 September I went into Settle to enjoyed the "Settle Community and Cycle Festival.." and took videos...
Sunday, 28 September 2008

Rev Peter Whitaker, Chairman of the West Yorkshire District

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I was so busy whizzing round taking photographs for a new Churches Together in Settle leaflet, passing the start of the Three Peaks Cycle ev...
Tuesday, 23 September 2008

Earth Overshoot Day - today -

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Today is Earth Overshoot Day: The day our demand surpasses nature’s budget according to Global Footprint Network In 2007 it was October 6t...
Monday, 22 September 2008

ECEN

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Tomorrow several of my friends will be setting off for Milan, in Italy, to the European Christian Environment Network (ECEN) Assembly 24-28 ...
Sunday, 21 September 2008

The Fruits of the Spirit

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The text for both this week and last week at St John's Church Settle was "The Fruits of the Spirit" This week the Worship Grou...
Friday, 19 September 2008

Fungus Foray above Settle

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Waxcaps, Puffballs, Blushers, Mottle-gills and Stinkhorns! 20th of September might be the "penultimate day of summer" but it was o...

Norway joins fight to save Amazon

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"Norway has pledged $1bn (£500m) to a new international fund to help Brazil protect the Amazon rainforest. The donation is the first to...
Thursday, 18 September 2008

An Article for your Parish Magazine

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On Christian Ecology Link's Website, short articles suitable for Parish Magazines are written by Ruth Jarman: the topic for October is ...
Wednesday, 17 September 2008

Auf Deutsch -

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In meiner Kirche hier in Settle haben wir einen Fond für drei Wohlfarten: zwei kaufen Land und Wälder um sie besser zu beschützen. Die dritt...
Tuesday, 16 September 2008

Cool Earth - Amazon programme on BBC

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On Monday 15 September Cool Earth sent its supporters the following email: "On BBC 2 tonight (Mon 15th) at 9pm, Bruce Parry begins a tr...
Monday, 15 September 2008

En français

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Ici, à Settle, un groupe de l’église Méthodiste – nous avons créé un fond, en vue de protèger les forêts vierges et nous subventionons tro...
Sunday, 14 September 2008

More Langcliffe Teas and French Translation

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Sunday 14 September - Today I went to Langcliffe Teas again, following last Sundays effort. Three sets of friends kindly donated (to a total...
Saturday, 13 September 2008

Strophanthus

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What do you think this beautiful flower is called? We found it growing as a creeper/bush in a clearing when Duncan and Ferdinand took us to ...
Friday, 12 September 2008

Langcliffe Teas and getting sponsors

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Last Sunday 7th September I thought "I must work on getting some sponsors." So I went to Langcliffe Institute. They do wonderful t...
Thursday, 11 September 2008

Greenbelt 2008

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Fri 22- Mon 25 Aug 2008 ( link to longer picture report ) I had never been to Greenbelt. I have never been to ANY festival - (three folkmusi...
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Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Addingham Friendly Hour - Tea Visit

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On 13th August thirty people from the old peoples club "Addingham Friendly Hour" based at Addingham Methodist Church had arranged ...
Tuesday, 9 September 2008

More Nature Walks in Summer

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In Summer I have taken four groups of people out on nature walks. I have said on my "Sponsor me form" that I would take old people...
Monday, 8 September 2008

The Owl - Energy Monitor

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The Owl Meter This meter measures how much electricity your house is using - Once it is set up (and it only takes a minute once you know wha...
Sunday, 7 September 2008

Seven updates and "Shun meat" says UN Climate chief"

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Three months gap since my last posting! I have been away - Scotland, England, Ireland -and busy teaching and botanising while the flowers ar...
Sunday, 1 June 2008

Sponsor me - to take an old person on a nature trip

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Would you like to sponsor me? I am raising money to save the rainforest and other valuable habitats. What am I doing to get sponsored for? I...
Tuesday, 29 April 2008

Coffee Morning at Richard Pike's, Settle

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12 April Richard kindly offered his new flat in the centre of Settle as a base for a coffee morning in each Saturday in April. Ont the 12th ...
Sunday, 13 April 2008

A Rocha Ghana - what projects could we support?

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19 March What is A Rocha Ghana doing, that we may be able to, and interested to help with? Recently (19 March) I had a useful talk over the ...
Friday, 4 April 2008

Settle Scottish Country Dancing Class donate. See them dance!!

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Thurs 3rd April: The Scottish Country Dancing Class meets in the Church Hall each Thursday evening at 7.30pm in Autumn, Winter and Spring. Y...
Thursday, 13 March 2008

Name Change

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Wed 5 March 2008: Some visitors to this blog may have noticed a subtle name change. When the project started on 1st January the provisional ...
Thursday, 6 March 2008

"E-peace", Biodiversity Conservation in the Dales and Leeds University Ecology Course

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1st March 2008: "E-peace believes that we should conserve and enhance the biodiversity and nature of the Yorkshire Dales for its own sa...
Tuesday, 26 February 2008

Palm Oil Perambulations and Soya Search

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Why aren't we doing more to save the rainforests and other species rich habitats? According to a Friends of the Earth report written two...
Sunday, 17 February 2008

How to organise a presentation evening

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Friday 8th Feb- Presentation Evening A further £65 was donated at the Presentation Evening, bringing the total raised so far to: £295 The p...
Sunday, 10 February 2008

How to get more people to your coffee morning..

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On Tuesday 5th February we had planned a coffee morning at Richard's flat. We changed the location and held it at the Church - so that ...
Saturday, 9 February 2008

Speakers Club, Amazon, and "Don't Eat Beef"

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" You can save the Rainforest " was the title of my ten minute speech at Craven Speakers Club on Monday 28th Jan 2009, it went we...

Sean McDonagh's Talk at Bradford

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On Tuesday 29 January I attended Sean McDonagh's two talks at Bradford University. I used the opportunity to tell people about the St Jo...
Tuesday, 29 January 2008

Our crops replace the forest

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On Monday 28th January I was scheduled to give a speech at Craven Speakers Club in Skipton. At Speakers clubs we practice giving speeches a...
Friday, 25 January 2008

Donate Online

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The following pages have just been created and are awaiting your donations! :) www.justgiving.com/settle-WLT www.justgiving.com/settle-aroc...
Thursday, 24 January 2008

Charities we are supporting

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So, I wrote something for the coming Sunday's Church Newsheet: The St John’s Methodist Church (Settle) Rainforest Fund Project: We...