18 February 2010
16:0440994#1
many events are being organised over the next few weeks for Fairtrade.
On saturday 6th march from 10am to 1230pm the Fairtrade Committee will be organising a Banana competition for 11s and under in St mary's Parish hall. the idea is to produce a work of art based upon a banana! we would be pleased to hear of anyone with artistic mind who could help us guide the young folk in their constructs. Please contact myself of the DTC if you can. We also need stuff for decorating if you have any.
Otherwise bring your young people for a free cup of tea and a mild amusement that morning.
D
18 February 2010
16:0940997#2
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18 February 2010
16:3241005#3
There are many forms of Banana Art that the kids could enjoy
Tattoo a Banana
Similar to the art of scrimshaw.Cover the banana skin in fine art using a felt pen. Or write a message on it for your loved one or parents.
Banana Animals
Draw faces of birds or lie the banana horizontically and draw a banana dolphin using the peeling end as its mouth/nose
Decorate a banana
Using feathers ordolls clothes or dressed as the TV characters Bananas in Pyjamas
Banana Split competition
Who can make the most appertising banana split... judges would have a great time tasting the entries
Adult Banana entries
A fully peeled nakedbanana oh matron!! or a kosher banana with the top part of the yellow skin cut off....
but seriously just a few ideas using bananas or get kids drawing bananas and writing stories about them. The Fruit people starring Granny Smith, Mr Sour Grapes Miss Peaches..dingdong ,Mr Kiwi the rugby player and Max Jaffa the Orange violinist etc
Marek
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18 February 2010
16:4641008#4
After posting the above I found these examples
Shows I'm not the only mad person on the net...?
Marek
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18 February 2010
16:5441011#5
There are other photos with bananas on the "net", but they would probably be deemed inappropriate for our sensitive viewing.
On a more serious note, I hope one of the local greengrocers or supermarkets is sponsoring some real bananas for the kiddies?
18 February 2010
16:5441013#6
Oh yes, Marek, I think you've gone, erm, BANANA's mate!!
18 February 2010
17:2641020#7
Marek - this is the one and only time I am ever going to say this: I love your bananas..............
19 February 2010
07:3941046#8
Thank you for those suggestions.
Indeed all bananas are supplied by our fairtrade suppliers and none will be hurt on the day as guardians from the NSPCB will be on hand.
Fairtrade bananas can be purchased at various outlets incl the open market - where I get mine - as well as Somerfields who are supplying the ones in question.
D
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19 February 2010
09:1041052#9
There is to be a Fairtrade Wine-Tasting at the Town Council offices next week - the guest speaker is Ian Dunkerley (Dunkerley's of Deal), that well-know restaurateur and raconteur.
6pm to 7.30 on the 24th.
I'd love to go, but I have a Council meeting - damn.
Roger
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19 February 2010
09:5741055#10
Yes the agenda will/is on our website and in the papers . Wine and food supplied by local businesses incl Rooks and Vanes and M&s as well as Coop and Morrisons. Tickets running out fast can be collected from DTC
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23 February 2010
19:5641254#11
I love Bananas, so just thought I would share this with you
I have a brand new banana tree but I have no bananas
Does anyone else have this non-growing problem
I really would like a banana guard, there was a shop in Canterbury that used to sell them, does anyone know where I can get one? BTW this is a serious request
23 February 2010
21:3841259#12
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24 February 2010
10:2741271#13
Thanks Sid, a lovely sunshine yellow banana guard is now winging its way to my door
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24 February 2010
13:3141281#14
J
ust to tell you that my wife and me will be at the Wine Tasting tonight just got our tickets.I do not drink so my wife will have mine.
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24 February 2010
20:5541315#15
Yes we was there a very good turnout to,i am not a drinking man anymore but did have some of my wifes and the tast of all the wines was good and the food was A1.Well done to all who put the event on.
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24 February 2010
21:0741319#16
If you get a copy of the Big Issue this week, you`ll find in it, (apart from the detestable, unfunny Harry Hill complete with stupid facial expression`s), an excellent free London fairtrade guide pullout, plus other feature`s concerning fairtrade. I read it on the train coming home earlier, and when you see the middlemen between the poor grower and the supermarket, it`s no wonder the poor don`t make much out of it.
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25 February 2010
19:2041382#17
Colin, I think that point and the ability to expand out of the system and set up on their own is kept underground.
Some good ideals but also limitations.
Watty.
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25 February 2010
19:4341386#18
Thank you Paul. I would also mention another piece from the magazine which shows a furniture business down in Devon, importing furniture direct from a family run business in a poor part of India. No middlemen whatsoever, which is where I got the `middlemen` from above.
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#19
Just to give this thread another airing, as some are quickly forgotten. In the supermarket last Saturday at the fruit section, I grabbed a bunch of funsize banana`s, and then heard someone mention fairtrade to someone they were with. Forgot all about that, and after replacing the funsize one`s, I got a bunch from the Windward Island`s. A bit bruised when I got home, but today I bought another bunch, this time from the Dominican Republic. I hope these poor farmer`s are still benefitting from this.
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#20
Colin, just make sure you buy banana's from countries NOT affiliated/connected with USA. There is a battle royal going on as the US backed growers try to displace the Caribbeans in the supply of banana's, particularly to the UK. To aid this battle, the US is heavily subsidising Central and South American banana growers and that is heaping pressure on the smaller Caribbean growers.
Regardles of that, the bananas from almost any country except the Americas are usually smaller but much tastier.
