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Date: 21 March 2006 15:07:12
I have been given permission to register our church as a Fairtrade Church.
The church leaders have agreed that we can begin to exclusively serve Fairtrade tea and coffee at all church functions and begin to move over to Fairtrade sugar and other items. All we need now is for McVities Rice Tea and Digestives to become Fairtrade recognised and I'll be in heaven - a a diabetic I shouldn't eat other types of biscuits (but I do occasionally).
In slightly related news:
I'm trying to find away to take advantage of car pool lanes when they come into force. I've registered my details on a car sharing site but, after 3 months, have had no takers. Maybe they've been warned...
I don't think Wife would be to happy to accompany me on journies, especially if she has to go to work. I've thought about buying a mannequin but they reckon that this won't work. Maybe I'll have to hire people to accompany me or begin picking up hitchhikers and forcing them to come with me.
Unfortunately public transport is not a viable option. The villages I live and work in don't have a connecting bus service. They are only 10 miles apart but it would entail travelling twice that distance each way to get to work. in addition the buses don't run that often and the timetables aren't integrated.
To make matters worse it would take about 4 hours by train from Wales to Warwickshire on a Monday and the same back on a Thursday. Plus a bus ride from the station to the office.
Sometimes, no matter how much we'd like to try, public transport just isn't good enough to meet our needs. With the government now dictating to train operators what services they can, or cannot offer, things are just getting worse.
Life was so much easier in the 40's and 50's before they killed the rail services off.