St Mary Redcliffe Parish Magazine February/March 2020
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Show others how much you treasure your clothes — mending is easy and decorative<br />
and really fashionable now. Our clothes shouldn’t cost the Earth. Be kind to our<br />
planet and think more carefully before buying new clothes or throwing clothes<br />
away. We can all make small changes and help create a sustainable world.<br />
If you would like to know more about what happens to unwanted and discarded<br />
clothing exported to India from the western world, check out the video link below<br />
There are lots of others too, showing the uses of our unwanted clothing in Africa.<br />
Liz Hewitt | SMR Eco Team member | Recycling Clothes<br />
* NOTES<br />
Wrap is an acronym for Waste & Resources Action Programme<br />
Make Do and Mend:<br />
From the British Library online —<br />
“Make Do and Mend” was a pamphlet issued by the British Ministry of Information in<br />
the midst of WWII. It was intended to provide housewives with useful tips on<br />
how to be both frugal and stylish in times of harsh rationing. With its thrifty<br />
design ideas and advice on reusing old clothing, the pamphlet was an<br />
indispensable guide for households. Readers were advised to create pretty<br />
‘decorative patches’ to cover holes in worn garments; unpick old jumpers to<br />
re-knit chic alternatives; turn men’s clothes into women’s; as well as darn, alter<br />
and protect against the ‘moth menace’. An updated version of the book was<br />
recently released to coincide with the economic recession, offering similar frugal<br />
advice for 21st century families.<br />
Visit: https://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item106365.html<br />
Discarded Clothing video link:<br />
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOOI5LbQ9B8.<br />
“...The best motto to think about is to not waste things. Don’t<br />
waste electricity, don’t waste paper, and don’t waste food. Live<br />
the way you want to live, but just don’t waste. Look after the<br />
natural world and the animals in it, and the plants in it too. This<br />
is their planet as well as ours. Don’t waste them.”<br />
— Sir David Attenborough<br />
at church | children’s & youth church<br />
HAPPY NEW YEAR! —<br />
BECKY MACRON<br />
FAMILIES & YOUTH<br />
MINISTER<br />
HAPPY NEW YEAR!... what I love most about <strong>St</strong> <strong>Mary</strong> <strong>Redcliffe</strong><br />
is the people. We are blessed to have so many people who<br />
do so many things for our church, the community, the wider<br />
world and for one another. And what I really like is that I never stop<br />
discovering new things…<br />
Over the past few years I’ve had the pleasure of assisting <strong>Mary</strong>, Joseph and<br />
the donkey on their Advent journey. Christmas 2019 gave us an opportunity<br />
to see just a few of the many things (and by no means everything!) that take<br />
place, not just at Christmas, but every day in the life of <strong>Redcliffe</strong>...<br />
The<br />
people are<br />
so welcoming,<br />
I feel like we<br />
really fit in...<br />
We really<br />
enjoyed meeting Sarah,<br />
the Education Officer,<br />
and the children from<br />
the local primary<br />
school.<br />
20 21<br />
...so <strong>Mary</strong><br />
and Joseph, can<br />
you tell us about your<br />
Advent journey<br />
in 2019?<br />
...and<br />
they’ve gone<br />
to such effort<br />
to make us feel<br />
at home.<br />
I was<br />
so pleased when the<br />
Vergers found the donkey. It<br />
made getting around<br />
so much easier...
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