As a phrase, ‘my bread and butter’ refers to our most basic needs and interests, what we require just to get by, but has the ‘ordinariness’ of this foodstuff meant we’ve forgotten to value it as much as we should? As someone who hates waste, I always use up everything. I’d have been, in that …
Launching the St Leonard’s Green Scheme
The St Leonard’s Green Scheme was formally launched at Semley fete on 8th June and the Big Green Picnic the next day, 9th June. At the fete, the wonderful postcards drawn by pupils (and one or two staff) from Semley Primary raised nearly £70. The ones that haven’t gone to new homes will be incorporated into a …
We have the Power!
There seems to have been a deluge of bad news recently when it comes to reports on the environment. So it was with a sigh of relief that I read this uplifting BBC headline: ‘The man who took on the coal industry to save a forest – and won’. Alok Shukla, has just won the …
Treasuring What We Have
Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. This quote from Elizabeth Barrett Browning helps me to understand something which should be at the heart of Christian faith: God did not create our world and then depart to observe us from afar. God …