Mark is married to Jo and is a 23 year old youth and schools worker based in South Cave (near Hull). Mark spent 4 years as a youth worker in Peterborough whilst studying for a degree in youth work & ministry with Oasis.
As I previously mentioned this year Jo and myself headed to Greenbelt after the encouragement of a good friend and the temptation from Greenbelt of a free youth worker ticket paid off so on Friday we packed up the car and headed down to Cheltenham Racecourse. We arrived at around 12 and joined the queue [...]
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Day 45: Can we live without supermarkets?
On April - 2 - 2010 ADD COMMENTS
As I drove past Morrisons yesterday on my way home from my gym I realised that it had almost been 6 weeks since I stepped foot inside my little local supermarket and I realised that come Sunday I could break my fast of supermarkets…the thing is the majority of me doesn’t want to! When I [...]
Day 2: No Supermarkets For Lent!
On February - 18 - 2010 3 COMMENTS
Whilst lent is meant to be a time or preparation and should be something to bring you closer to God one thing I am trying this year amongst things that achieve the former (I hope!) is avoiding supermarkets. Local Veg! I had a conversation with someone at church about farm shops last week and so [...]
Carrier Bags
On September - 15 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS
I don’t go shopping that often (by this I mean a shopping centre style shopping) but I do know that when you wander around towns where people are partaking in the act of consumerism they are usually clinging onto a handful of plastic bags with a variety of brands and logos showing the world exactly [...]
Tesco – Continued Fun!
On September - 12 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS
Regular readers will know of my dislike of Tesco (see these posts) and once again they continue to annoy me a little. A couple of weeks back whilst in Sheffield the Tesco van decided to block the road and make a delivery to the store…so I waited for 10 minutes (see left picture). If it [...]
The War On Tesco Continues…
On May - 29 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS
In Sheffield under Jo’s flats is a Tesco Metro who have decided they would like to open earlier…Jo has submitted the following to Tesco partly so she doesn’t lose sleep because of their extended hours and partly because of my dislike for Tesco’s. Here’s the planning link and here are the comments I would like [...]
Community…and God
On May - 10 - 2009 ADD COMMENTS
I’ve been thinking more about community lately although to an extent it’s been a big topic the last few years. One of the big passions of Oasis/Steve Chalke is getting the church back to the heart of the community which in many ways is the reason that Oasis build academy’s across the country…not just schools [...]
News!
On May - 7 - 2009 3 COMMENTS
All has been quiet on the blog-front for the last week for several reasons…firstly I’ve been finishing my dissertation and secondly I’ve been attending job interviews which I have deliberately kept quiet on the web because I figured that an empoyer may well google me (one did!) and find the blog. So here is my [...]
Correspondance with Tesco: 2nd Response
On January - 16 - 2009 3 COMMENTS
The Tesco saga continues, a couple of days ago I received a response to my second letter to Tesco. If you don’t have a clue what my Tesco battle is all about I suggest you read the book Tescopoly and read the posts in my ‘Ethical Living’ category. So here is my second letter from [...]
Correspondance with Tesco: My Second Letter
On January - 4 - 2009 3 COMMENTS
Readers of this blog will know of my on going issues with Tesco which started by reading a book all about their practices and looking into some of their interesting tactics, this then led on to ‘Correspondance with Tesco Part 1‘ in which I wrote to them informing them that I would no longer be [...]
Correspondance with Tesco: Response
On December - 20 - 2008 2 COMMENTS
On the 20th November I wrote a letter to Tescos, a week later I posted it online under the title ‘Correspondance with Tesco’ informing the giant that I would be boycotting their shop. This post & comments made by blog readers led to my ‘Easy Ethical Shopping‘ post and last week I received a reply [...]
Easy Ethical Shopping?
On December - 4 - 2008 4 COMMENTS
Having spent some time reading all about Tesco the last month or so their bad practices have become something of a conversation point within my youth work. One young person asked ‘Mark, how am I meant to not shop at Tesco, there’s no-where else for miles!’ (I should add that I hadn’t told them all [...]
Correspondence With Tesco Part 1
On November - 27 - 2008 4 COMMENTS
Readers of this blog will have noticed a link to a website called ‘Tescopoly’ in the links section for sometime now. The website aims to unite those against Tesco and the numerous appalling practices which they implement. In the last month I’ve been reading Andrew Simms book ‘Tescopoly’ which looks in depth into the practices [...]
Drink Culture
On August - 26 - 2008 4 COMMENTS
On Sunday night we went out into Great Yarmouth (and finally found somewhere in Yarmouth with no cheese!), on our way back to our cars at midnight we noticed a guy passed out outside KFC and a female friend trying to help him…we thought we’d step in and help out this guy who’d had way [...]
Tesco Pays Workers 16p An Hour
On June - 26 - 2008 1 COMMENT
This article on the metro website details some of Tesco’s pay-rates to people in other countires…can’t say I’m surprised at Tesco… Link For more information on supermarket’s and sweatshops see this link