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Uplifting Stories of Hope and Unity
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What do a small village pub, a community fridge, and a nostalgic look at classic movies have in common? They all embody the spirit of community and creativity! Join us as we celebrate Hannah's accomplishment in mental health advocacy and the sheer joy of reconnecting with friends. This episode brings heartwarming tales from a village in the UK, where locals built a pub for charity, and shares the inspiring efforts of Scottish schoolchildren who saved their beloved library. These stories remind us of the power of collective action and the importance of fostering positivity in our communities.
From preserving libraries to reducing food waste, hear how communities across the UK are stepping up for the greater good. In Brixton, a community fridge initiative not only helps reduce waste but also aids those in need, showcasing the power of grassroots efforts. These reflections tie back to inspiring narratives of charity bike rides in Bristol and vibrant street art in Glasgow—illustrating the transformative role of community in our lives.
We wrap up with tales of transformation and innovation, from a virtual choir that defied social distancing to rock choirs covering iconic tracks, proving music's unifying power. The generosity of cafes in Edinburgh and Norwich illustrates the warmth and hope thriving in local eateries, while stories of refurbishment and renewal inspire creativity and revitalization. We’re grateful for our listeners worldwide and invite everyone to keep the conversation going on social media. Thank you for joining us on this uplifting journey, and we promise more heartening stories in future episodes.
Hello and welcome to Bonus Dad. Bonus Daughter a special father-daughter podcast with me Hannah and me, davy, where we discuss our differences, similarities, share a few laughs and stories. Within our ever-changing and complex world, Each week we will discuss a topic from our own point of view and influences throughout the decades, or you could choose one by contacting us via email, instagram, facebook or TikTok Links in bio.
Speaker 2:Hello and welcome to another episode of Bonus Dad, bonus Daughter. We are, we, we. We're going to talk about something positive.
Speaker 1:I was going to say positive. I think positive is the right word.
Speaker 2:We're going to talk about uplifting stories. Yeah Good things, yeah Good things.
Speaker 1:The thing is like everyone's Not everyone, but there's a lot of horrible stories out there.
Speaker 2:It's a bit doom and gloom in it at the moment.
Speaker 1:It is all a little bit doom and gloom, and I think it's like when you turn on the news, isn't it? You never hear anything positive.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 1:It's all, oh, everything's going to rat shit and we're all going to die and da, da, da da. But it's not always always like that. It's not all doom and gloom, it's not. There are some lovely stories out there and there's some really lovely positive stuff that is happening, some real feel good kind of uplifting. You know, the human race isn't all bad, there are some good ones out there, there's some reprieve. There is some reprieve out there and we thought we'd just kind of yeah, touch on a few. Touch on a few.
Speaker 2:As we well, we haven't recorded in a couple of weeks. Do you have any life update? Life update? No, no, me neither. Actually, work has been super busy for me. Yeah, I feel like that's all I've been doing. Had some friends over last weekend. That was quite cool Still having new auntie cuddles, enjoying that. And oh, I did complete my mental health course.
Speaker 1:You did, congratulations. Well done, thank you very much.
Speaker 2:Thank you very much. Advocacy. I'm now well, I feel like I was a mental health advocate before. Yeah, mental health advocate before, yeah, but now I'm a qualified one, qualified one, so yay go. Mental health.
Speaker 1:Have you got letters after your name? I have yes, you do, don't you, I do, you do have letters after your name.
Speaker 2:I do have some letters.
Speaker 1:You is like educated and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can do brain me. Oh, can you make a brain neck?
Speaker 1:Actually, no, actually no, that we did. We're talking about having friends over. We did have some friends over. We saw grant and anna did you?
Speaker 2:yeah, I'm not sure if you listen to the podcast.
Speaker 1:Yeah, hello grant does does he? Yeah, yeah, he does I've seen him in years I know we were talking and we said that we the last time we saw each other was five years ago no seriously we're terrible. I know.
Speaker 2:Which is even more for me.
Speaker 1:I know.
Speaker 2:So we? I haven't seen him Since I've been married.
Speaker 1:No, you haven't, whoa. No, you haven't.
Speaker 2:That's crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, they're talking about. Yeah, no, we had a Really good chat.
Speaker 2:Nice, yeah, it was lovely, lovely to see him, lovely, yes, lovely, wish I was there.
Speaker 1:Where's my invite? Lost in the post it was. It was absolutely Lost in the post, yeah.
Speaker 2:Talking about post, I watched Amelie last night With a friend, vic, did you really? Yeah, me and Vic watched Amelie and she really loved it Because we talked about Our favourite things On her, your favourite these are a few Of my favourite things. Yeah, and she was like oh, I want to watch Amelie and she really enjoyed it. You've never seen it before no, no, no really yeah, yeah. So uh, we watched that last night oh, it's a great film such a good film.
Speaker 2:But yeah, uh, so watch that last night, and uh, yeah, so anything else happen. Oh, I can think of no, no, no no funky, fresh, let's go uplifting stories, yeah.
Speaker 1:so I, yeah, I kind of just uh again went on to google and looked at it saying just some stories about some real feel-good things, about where just basically people being nice human beings Makes a change. Yeah, exactly, and I looked at ones around the UK, but then I also looked at ones from Norfolk. I thought I'd be a little bit closer to home.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, there's quite a few on here. We'll start with the world. No, we'll start with the world. No, we'll start with the UK. Start with the UK.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Sometimes I like to think the UK is just the world. I'm fully aware it's not, but it is our world.
Speaker 1:It is our world. It is our world, it is our world.
Speaker 2:So yeah, and I guess we could invite people to comment on the old socials and if there's anything uplifting in your area, we would love to know yeah, anywhere around the world, because we've said we do have listeners around the world. We do we have a global following.
Speaker 1:We do have a global following, so it would be nice to hear some kind of not-so-local uplifting stories from around the world.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, yes, let's go UK. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 1:So the first one that I looked at was the village that built a pub for charity. Now, I can definitely get behind this.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, building a pub, I mean.
Speaker 2:Is it called the Winchester?
Speaker 1:It's not called the Winchester.
Speaker 2:It's not.
Speaker 1:It's not what is it called, so it's called the Community Arms which kind of makes sense.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, I'll give them that one.
Speaker 1:It could have been the Community Winchester Arms, but I'll take it. I'll take it. Was there a Breville?
Speaker 2:at the back. Yeah, would anybody like a peanut Kill the Queen Sorry.
Speaker 1:So yeah, it was called the Community Arms and it was in Great Tew I think I'm pronouncing that correctly in Oxfordshire, great Tew, grade two. Yeah, basically they built this pub and then all the profits from the pub supported local charities and initiatives showcasing community spirit and collective effort.
Speaker 2:Oh, so they would probably have showcased acts as well, I imagine, in the pub, like singing and poetry and slam poetry, dunk, yeah, what a great idea, very cool.
Speaker 1:So they built a pub. Poetry dunk. Yeah, what a great idea, very cool. So they build a pub it's.
Speaker 2:It's then a community yeah, community-led pub that everyone goes to, but then all the profits from it as well gets back into the community this is such a great model as well, because not only I just said singing and poetry because I immediately went to the creative mind, but actually there's a lot of bar sports, pub sports, like darts, pool, you know. They could have like championships there as well, and that would bring in a lot of money and a lot of revenue, I reckon. So, yeah, good for them. Go on Oxfordshire.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well done. I like that. Great chew, Great chew. Is it chew Chew, chew chew. Anybody in Oxfordshire would like to? Just let us know.
Speaker 2:Let us know on the pronunciation there.
Speaker 1:Let's know on the pronunciation there and let us know how it's going.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, how's it going Do?
Speaker 2:we have any information on when it was built.
Speaker 1:No, oh Okay, I didn't get that far. It's probably folded. No, let's hope it hasn't. No, but I think that's brilliant, I think that's a really good little story.
Speaker 2:Incredible, yeah, considering the pub culture it's really bad.
Speaker 1:It's dire, Dire, Absolutely dire. There are, I mean, nightclubs and pubs. They're closing down left, right and centre. Do you know? I saw on the news the other day that you only get 12 pence profit per pint of beer.
Speaker 2:Really. That's it 12 pence. I think it's probably the cost of living that's done that because you know, people are still. I think people are still going out, but I think they don't go out or don't spend as much because the cost of living is higher, so they don't have as much money to spend on recreational activities like going out for drinks, and they are expensive and but the bars don't want to put them up because then no one will come.
Speaker 2:But also they have to put them up enough so that they get a profit, albeit 12 pence so have you heard of max woozy? I have not no, i't. Explain to me who Max Woozy is.
Speaker 1:So Max Woozy is.
Speaker 2:Sorry for the mispronunciation. I know?
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, it's probably Wussy Wussy Woozy, 15-year-old guy from Devon.
Speaker 2:Guy Guy 15?
Speaker 1:15-year-old guy from Devon.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't say he's.
Speaker 1:He camped in his garden for over a year and he raised half a million for the NHS during the COVID-19 pandemic. Pandemic, pandemic, I really am struggling to talk today.
Speaker 2:What a lad, yeah, but isn't that like every 15-year-old's dream?
Speaker 1:What? Camping in the garden, away from your parents?
Speaker 2:I mean no showering.
Speaker 1:No, I still think he probably showered. I mean, he was out there for a year. I mean he didn't turn into like swampy.
Speaker 2:I mean 500,000 is a lot of money for one lad.
Speaker 1:That is a lot, isn't it?
Speaker 2:We're going to call him a lad. He's not a guy.
Speaker 1:He's not a guy, he's a lad. He's a lad.
Speaker 2:He's a lad. It's very yes, Captain Tom.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think he's passed away, hasn't he now? He has, indeed, yes, he has.
Speaker 2:He raised quite a bunch.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but yeah. So old Max out in his garden for a year raised half a million for the NHS during the pandemic and that apparently was inspired by a family friend's care, so he wanted to put something back into the NHS Back into the world, yeah, or NHS yeah. Yeah, Cool that is. I mean, that's a little bit of an uplifting story, isn't it?
Speaker 2:And for a 15-year-old to have that notion. Yeah exactly. Yeah, Go on.
Speaker 1:Max. Yeah, well done, Max, Up the max yeah yeah. Maximum effort.
Speaker 2:Maximum effort.
Speaker 1:There you go. I can really get behind this next one. Oh, okay, I think this one is brilliant. Go on then. So Aberporth in Wales I probably pronounced that wrong as well launched a project to turn plastic waste into playground equipment.
Speaker 2:Oh, the actual equipment.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and what they did? They created eco-friendly playgrounds and addressed plastic waste through the Plastic Free Aberporth Initiative, nice. So look at that, I can really get behind that, because the amount of plastic waste through the Plastic Free Aberporth Initiative.
Speaker 2:Nice.
Speaker 1:So look at that, I can really get behind that, because the amount of plastic waste that you see.
Speaker 2:That would be like. So I'm assuming like it's all the swings, the actual structure of things. The slide potentially could be plastic. Yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean that's brilliant, that's pretty cool. Yeah, I did see somewhere in the world and then talk about global that people were building houses out of plastic bottles.
Speaker 2:Yes, yeah, I also. I'm sure this is something that's happened for a while now, but I always remember at school those black benches and they were all squiggly. Yeah, and they were always like from recycled materials or something, weren't they? And some of them would have a plaque in loving memory of whoever.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:But yeah, they were always made out of plastic, because they're slightly squiggly and you can tell it's been obviously compressed plastic that's made these things. That is very cool. Good, good Welsh town.
Speaker 1:Next one, ken Jones, we're going to go.
Speaker 2:So we've had a 15-year-old lad Guy, We've had a Welsh town doing their plastic.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and next up we've got an 87-year-old Ken from Birmingham.
Speaker 2:Oh, I love his name already. Ken Jones Do you think he's Ken enough?
Speaker 1:I think he he completed the London Marathon to raise money for cancer research, dedicating his run to his late wife, and he inspired many others to do the same. Oh, I've just got goose pimples 87 years old Ken running the London marathon 26 miles through London.
Speaker 2:I want to know what time he did that in.
Speaker 1:He's probably still doing it, bless him.
Speaker 2:Do I have my phone? I don't know.
Speaker 1:I mean you run.
Speaker 2:I do run. Don't ask me what my marathon time is.
Speaker 1:Do you think you could do?
Speaker 2:a marathon no. No 10K was enough for me? Yeah, I don't so, for I guess, for context, I done a 10K in an hour and 16. Obviously, a marathon is. I actually know how much it is in K. I know how many miles it is it's 26.2. Can you Google it for me?
Speaker 1:I'm going to Google it. See how quick Ken Jones did it in.
Speaker 2:I'm interested to know because as a runner, I'm interested to know.
Speaker 1:I think he's done more than one. Hey, good lad oh actually there's more to this. Okay, go on Okay so he's the oldest runner. He's run it for 40 years. 40 years, yeah, he's run it for 40 years. The London Marathon yeah, he started in 1981 and he's still going.
Speaker 2:Predates me. Oh, he must be running this in like an hour then.
Speaker 1:Oh dear God, Two hours 41.
Speaker 2:Two hours 41?. Yeah, are you kidding?
Speaker 1:me yeah, two hours 41.
Speaker 2:Two hours 41 he runs a marathon in. So just for context.
Speaker 1:That's 26 miles, yeah, a marathon in kilometers is 42.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so, considering I've done 10K in an hour and 16 minutes, if you just times that by four, let's for argument's sake if I could do a marathon which. I know I can't, I would be doing it, you know I would be, brushing five hours considering my 10k time, which is not not the best way of thing. He does it in in what two? What did you?
Speaker 1:say two hours 41 two hours 41 yeah what a lad yeah, oh no, he's a guy, he's a guy no, he needs more respect, so yeah, yeah, I mean he is a gentleman yeah, he is that. That's impressive, and he's been running it for four years.
Speaker 2:Run it for his late wife.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but he did, is he the?
Speaker 2:oldest participant, I think he is.
Speaker 1:I think he's one of the oldest. So next up we've got. We're going to Scotland, we're going north.
Speaker 2:Let's go north.
Speaker 1:North of the board, north of Hadrian's Wall.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 1:Going to the Picts.
Speaker 2:Yes and Adrian's. Yes, Adrian's and Adrian's.
Speaker 1:Yes. So in Scotland some schoolchildren successfully campaigned to save their local library from closure by organising fundraisers, writing letters and presenting their case to the town council.
Speaker 2:Wow, so they themselves presented their case.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the schoolchildren did it, which I think is great, because we are losing libraries left, right and centre.
Speaker 2:It's like pubs, libraries and pubs libraries and pubs. They're going the recreational of both uh social and and uh knowledge exactly dying. Yeah, it is sad that we lose libraries because it is sad and, I have to say, unfortunately I'm probably one of the catalysts, not me personally, but as in me, as a user of like Kindle.
Speaker 1:Exactly, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:And I am a Kindle Unlimited user myself. Because I am a Kindle user, because books don't come backlit and books also don't allow me to increase the font size as I am blind as a bat when. I'm in bed at night. So Kindle has made accessibility better, yeah, but our libraries are dying.
Speaker 1:They are dying and I must admit, taking a Kindle on holiday with a load of books is easier than taking a load of books.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and also textbooks and things like that, when I was studying as well, were easier on a Kindle because you have the ability to highlight and not ruin the book and also, like textbooks are massively, textbooks are massive and also weighty.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Carrying them around. Oh, just yeah. So unfortunately I am pro Kindle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but it is a shame that libraries I mean libraries are dying because they're. I do sit on the fence on this quite a lot because I like the convenience of a Kindle. I really like it, but also I like the physical book. I like to see the book in its entirety.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't miss the book so much, like the turning of the pages or the smell, as a lot of people say. They like the smell of books, which is cool, but yeah, no, I am pro kindle.
Speaker 1:unfortunately, I mean some books. You look at them and they can be just daunting just by the size of them yeah, whereas a kindle you can't see that, you can only see a percentage exactly. I mean look at, you've seen how big the divine comedy is no, I have not, it's huge. I mean, I mean, and that's, that's one of those books I mean I I have read, I have read it, but it's like a massive you, it's like Lord of the Rings as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're heifers.
Speaker 1:You know they're big old books. They are big old books.
Speaker 2:Some of the Harry Potter ones are heifers.
Speaker 1:They are, they are. But I just absolutely love this, the fact that the school children all got together and not only did they campaign, they organised fundraisers, they wrote letters and then they presented their case to the town council.
Speaker 2:Yeah, very cool. I think that is brilliant and they saved it and probably a minor shout out to the adults that may have helped them along the way. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I imagine the teachers of that school. Well, maybe that school or that community shall we say but have you noticed?
Speaker 1:of these first five, it's all selfless acts, either by coming together as a community or individuals to help other people. Yeah, Isn't it?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Faith in humanity restored Exactly.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Now does that theme carry on.
Speaker 1:It does indeed, because the sixth one is in Brixton in London, a community fridge initiative. Fridge Fridge initiative allowed residents to donate and take surplus food, both reducing waste and helping those in need. Nice. So not only did it help those people, it also promoted sustainability and community support Double whammy.
Speaker 2:I am all for. We have actually a food bank. I don't know if it's classed as a food bank, I don't know if that's the right word, but in our community centre, on our estate where I live, um, we have quite a massive local supermarket nearby and any food that they're not allowed to have on the shop floor anymore but are still good to eat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go to the community center. Um, but they could. When I say food, it could not necessarily be food. It could be toilet roll, it could be baby milk, it could be like loads of different things, that formula I'm talking about, sorry, but like yeah, and they, they put it in the community center and I think it's like I I want to say maybe like once a month or something like that yeah people can can get produce or things that they really need, um, I think I think it's for free or if there's like a donation box or something.
Speaker 2:Yeah, people can like just pick up whatever they might need for the week and yeah sometimes I think that might help a family out who might be at the end of their paycheck that month, and then they have that. It's quite a nice thing to have and plus it doesn't all go in the bin.
Speaker 1:Exactly.
Speaker 2:Because it's still good food. It's just policies. They can't have it on the shop floor or whatever it is.
Speaker 1:I know that is it.
Speaker 2:It's the bureaucracy of that, isn't it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but on the flip side, if something was to be sold and it was slightly out of date and somebody got ill because of it, then the company could get sued.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the company could get sued.
Speaker 1:So it's just one of them things really, You're damned if you do and damned if you don't. Oh yeah absolutely.
Speaker 2:I get it point of view as well, but it's nice that we have things like this in our well. I have one in my community and I hope that there are other communities out there that do it as well yeah and that people can just go down there and they could pick up a I don't know clover broccoli or something like you know, like, like you know.
Speaker 2:But the thing is, a lot of people struggle and you know, and I know this day and age and I know there's kind of a bit of a stigma attached to it as well about.
Speaker 1:But people shouldn't worry about that. No, no, they really shouldn't. I think if people need help.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think the stigma is oh, I can't possibly go to the food. But I think there's two I can't possibly go to the food bank because I'm not struggling enough. Yeah, or someone is really struggling and doesn't want to be seen as struggling exactly, it's a bit of a pride thing as well. It is a pride thing it is a pride thing, but I don't think anyone should should worry about that. That food is going to go to waste regardless. So yeah, I'm all for that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I think this is brilliant, but I love the fact that again, it's the community coming together to help each other out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's amazing what small communities can do, isn't?
Speaker 1:it Exactly, exactly. And then the next one is a very similar thing. So this is in Manchester. Hey, next one is a very similar thing. So this is in manchester. Hey up the manx, yeah up the manx. A group of volunteers again a group of volunteers transformed an abandoned park into a vibrant community space with gardens, playgrounds and a cafe, fostering community engagements and revitalization oh no, it's like abandoned park, as in like um recreational park.
Speaker 2:Yeah yeah, yeah I thought it was theme park and I automatically was like oh, does someone do up a roller coaster? How cool would that be.
Speaker 1:Every episode.
Speaker 2:I know I've got to mention the R word in every episode.
Speaker 1:It gets snuck in there, doesn't it? It gets snuck in. But now again you know you've got this abandoned park. No one goes there anymore. Wasted land, make it a community nice center bit, community spirit hub for the hub, for the local community.
Speaker 2:And it has a cafe the best part of all, you can get a latte get a latte you like your lattes, don't you? I've gone off them a little bit. Oh, what did you have today?
Speaker 1:I just had flat white, the reason being I saw the amount of calories that were in a latte compared to what there are in a thing. Oh father, honestly, I know, I know, I know, next up we're going to Liverpool, liverpool, not far away from Manchester. Ish, ish, yeah. So in a neighbourhood in Liverpool, residents formed a support network to assist elderly neighbours with groceries, medical appointments and companionship.
Speaker 2:Sorry, I'm going to stop you right there. I know there's more to that, but I think companionship people disregard the most. It's all very well getting groceries for them, taking them to medical appointments, but actually I think a lot of elderly people in our country really suffer from loneliness.
Speaker 1:And.
Speaker 2:I think that's probably one of the biggest mental health concerns of the elderly as well, and I think we don't give our elderly residents maybe enough credit sometimes. I mean they probably have some great advice on how to live our lives because I mean I know they'd lived in a different world but they would have some worldly experience there. And I think back very fondly of when I'd done some volunteering myself. And do you remember when I used to go and see Anne and play Scrabble with her yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:And I think back about that, how fondly that was, because she was all on her own as well. I think she has passed now. But yeah, and I just think back of that and I just think you know, it doesn't necessarily have to be a family member as such as well it could just be someone in the community or someone yeah, most of the time they just want to chat I know we have busy lives and I know we do.
Speaker 2:You know we we are 100 miles an hour, a lot of us. You know people that that need to work to to live. I certainly do, and you know we don't have a lot of time for these things, but you know I think it does world. A good companionship is not talked about enough, I think with the elderly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but also some of them most of them will have great stories.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, they've been alive there for a long time. They've seen things.
Speaker 2:They've seen things.
Speaker 1:They've seen things, I've seen things man, they will have some great stories Because Because one thing that I've noticed that I know I've said this about being my generation, and this is a big thing about Generation X is that we always say that we're 30 by the age of nine, but we're still 30 when we're 50.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:You know, we're in that age mindset and I actually think that's probably not just true of my generation, but I think of a lot of other generations as well that your body gets older. Yeah, your mind matures, but you still have the same mind. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you still think the same things.
Speaker 2:I think people will change. I mean, experience changes a lot of people. There's a lot of things that I used to think when I'm younger that I don't think anymore or have changed my view on that, and that's perfectly fine and okay. The more educated and the more mature you get about things as well, and the more you let things get to you and the more you brush certain things aside.
Speaker 1:It's your surroundings as well, and where you live, how you have brought up your own morals. I mean. One thing, for example, is how your mindset changes is films that I saw back in the 80s I thought were absolutely fine. Watching them back now I'm like, ooh, that's not so good.
Speaker 2:I think I said this on our halloween podcast, but I watched beetlejuice not that long ago and I was like this whoa like the way he like inappropriately touches her a lot like yeah, yeah I'm like, okay, this is not the new beetlejuice, the old beetlejuice, not beetlejuice, beetlejuice, beetlejuice. Yeah, oh, I just said it three times, um, as the lights flicker, yeah, yeah, well, yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, I think Dirty Dancing is one of them. I'm sorry, have you heard the lyrics of Grease? Yeah, I know that's wrong, but honestly, you watch Dirty Dancing now.
Speaker 2:She's a real pussy wagon Grease Lightning. What I didn't even know, that was the lyrics.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But when you watch Dirty Dancing now I, I'm on the dad side. Of course you are. You're a dad. I'm putting baby in that bloody corner, I'm strapping her in and she's going nowhere. Yeah, and some, some older guy come up trying to on with my younger daughter. No, there'll be fisty cuffs at dawn. Yeah, and I'll be supporting the dad. Yeah, yeah, it's crazy, isn't it?
Speaker 2:yeah, exactly, yeah anyway. Kevin Bacon just and just wanted to dance.
Speaker 1:I'm talking about Footloose.
Speaker 2:now, that was Footloose. I know it was Footloose. I'm talking about Footloose now. There's nothing weird in Footloose, is there?
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:Not that I can think of.
Speaker 1:No, there isn't Do it for the boys, yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:There's nothing weird in Footloose. No.
Speaker 1:I think we're good. Do you know what I? We've really gone off tangent.
Speaker 2:I saw a documentary. No, no, no, not documentary, or maybe a snippet of a documentary. You know, you're going to have to remind me what his name is. I think it's James, something Spike in Buffy.
Speaker 1:James Masters.
Speaker 2:James Masters, that's it. He was really uncomfortable with a certain scene. Have you seen this in Buffy?
Speaker 1:Yeah, like it was a bit of a he was very uncomfortable about it and mentioned it at the time.
Speaker 2:I think that he was very uncomfortable with it. But the things like that, now you know, would not fly, no absolutely. You know, and there are certain things that maybe did pass way back when. I don't often agree with censorship of some things, but I do think, God, how did you get away with that one?
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, yeah, some things, but I do think, god, how did you get away with that one? Yeah, yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, and sometimes it's it's, it's harder to, it's a harder watch when it's just implied rather than seen yes, yeah as well. You know it can be done. It can be done a certain way. Um, anyway, this is uplifting stories, hannah, you know uplifting yes sorry. So back, sorry, back on track, back on track. So now we're going to Bristol, so we're flitting around the UK, aren't we?
Speaker 2:Up Bristol. I'm just cheering for everything Up the Bristol. Yeah, I'm just cheering for everything.
Speaker 1:Okay, carry on. So a group of cyclists. They organised a charity bike ride Back on track, yeah.
Speaker 2:See that fun.
Speaker 1:Well done. They organised a charity bike ride, raising thousands of pounds for mental health services.
Speaker 2:Woohoo Up the mental health.
Speaker 1:So I think again, it's groups, isn't it? It's groups, it's groups coming together to help other people out. Yeah, I'm really liking this In Glasgow, some local artists. Moving on Going back up to scotland, uh, some local artists painted vibrant murals on buildings and public spaces, transforming the urban landscape and boosting community pride.
Speaker 2:the project also promoted local art and culture lovely, so just improving a space that may not look that great yes, exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1:And do you know what? There's a place in Norwich, isn't there as you go over the flyover by Anglia Square?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I thought you were going to go there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, and it's graffitied and it looks great.
Speaker 2:It's an abandoned. What would you call it?
Speaker 1:What around the back of.
Speaker 2:Anglia Square Because it was the old postal do-flippy-flip, but basically it's a load of offices.
Speaker 1:Is that what they're saying? Offices, yeah, it'd be offices, yeah.
Speaker 2:Offices that are kind of in a horseshoe-y type shape Very, very urban architecture.
Speaker 1:It needs sorting out.
Speaker 2:What's the word Brutalistic?
Speaker 1:Brutalistic yeah.
Speaker 2:Brutalistic architecture. So it's not that pretty to look at but at. But in its day that you know, that was the type of architecture it was. Um, yeah, it's completely abandoned, isn't it? Um, it is. Yeah, there used to be a cinema in there called hollywood cinema where there was a massive do you remember massive sully from monsters inc.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's furry. Yeah, well, it's when um alan partridge did alpha papa yes uh, because obviously that was all based around norwich and norfolk and he actually did the he's like our local legend, our local legend, is a fictional radio presenter. Yeah, says a lot, really Exactly, exactly. But I think graffiti artists don't get enough credit.
Speaker 2:They don't Up the Banksy, Up the Banksy. You know some.
Speaker 1:I mean, it is an art. It would take, you know? Oh, absolutely. It is art and it looks some of it is amazing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not a massive fan when someone just tags an area with their name or expletives.
Speaker 1:No, I'm talking real art. Real art. Yeah, I must admit I look at some places where they're graffiti and I'm like how the hell did they get there?
Speaker 2:Yeah, isn't it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:They must get like some climbing equipment and stuff like that. They have to.
Speaker 1:Got to.
Speaker 2:I mean, they could be like really good base jumpers as well. But there's being a base jumper and then there's also having artistic skills with a can of paint. They've got to have some sort of Like on bridges and stuff. I just feel like how did they get there?
Speaker 1:Have you seen Exit Through the Gift Shop?
Speaker 2:Yes, you have, yes, I have.
Speaker 1:Yeah, brilliant yeah, we're going to go to Brighton now.
Speaker 2:Whoa, let's go south.
Speaker 1:We're going everywhere. I know this looks like it's a bit like Vinted. In Brighton. A pop-up clothing swap event encourages people to exchange clothes instead of buy new ones.
Speaker 2:Ah, so they actually have something like this in Norwich as well, do they? Are you aware? No, it's something like it's got a. Really the name is really punny. It's like by the kilo or something like that, but I can't think how they do it. Anyway, you go in there. I've been. You go in there, you get basically a plastic bag and you don't get charged per item, you get charged by how much it weighs. So I ended up picking up this really nice denim jacket A thin denim jacket, and some really cool boohoo trousers and stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, it's really cool they have it. I think it's like every quarter maybe. Okay, it's like seasonal, but yeah, you go in there and it encourages sustainable fashion. So you can go in there and you can get whatever you want, but you get charged by the weight as opposed to per the item.
Speaker 1:Right, okay.
Speaker 2:And it's really cool and they do it in uh, saint andrews hall, but that's actually closed at the moment, so I don't know where it is at the moment. I would imagine like norwich art center or something like that yeah um, but yeah, inner city you can go in that's brilliant. You don't take clothes there, yeah, but you can take them away that's great yes, fashion, fashion, kilo sale it's. It's got a punny name but I can't. It's escaping me right now, but yeah.
Speaker 1:But it does. I mean, it promotes sustainable and also it's less waste. Yeah, well, not also, though, because that is sustainability Idiot. Yeah, but again people come together.
Speaker 2:Yeah, again, isn't it? Yeah, Absolutely.
Speaker 1:Do you think there's any jealousy there? Jealousy as in. You know, like, for instance, if you were to say, give someone else your top, and then you see them and you think they look so much better in it than what I ever did I don't think that would be a jealousy thing.
Speaker 2:I think, oh wow, look what I've empowered someone to look like like it.
Speaker 1:Take it that way. Yeah, okay, now we're going to cornwall, let's, we're going right down to the bottom of the UK.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we've gone west now.
Speaker 1:Yes, a village in Cornwall. A kindness postbox allows residents to send anonymous letters of encouragement and support those feeling isolated or lonely.
Speaker 2:Okay, I do foresee a problem with this.
Speaker 1:I think I know where you're going with it, but go on.
Speaker 2:Well, you might not know where I'm going with it, but go on. Well, you might not know where I'm going with it. Actually, I don't know about you. I know where my friends live, right, but I don't know their address. Well, do you see what I'm saying?
Speaker 1:yeah, well, if they're isolated, well, it'd be like send it down to that house down the bottom there yeah, but what address are you writing on the, on the, on the? House in the valley.
Speaker 2:Oh, surrey Street, 23 Surrey Street or something like that, and they're just going to have to know where that is. I guess, because it's a community, I guess they would know, they would know. But yeah, I foresee that problem and I also foresee not kindness.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, because some people are, let's face it, some people are arseholes.
Speaker 2:And I like to think that that doesn't happen.
Speaker 1:I would think they get proofread beforehand. I would think they get proofread.
Speaker 2:No, because you can't open people's mail. That's kind of frowned upon as well.
Speaker 1:I reckon people could use that for For nefarious reasons.
Speaker 2:Yes, for nefarious reasons If it doesn't get abused. Very cool, Very cool project.
Speaker 1:Next up we're going to Leeds Primary school. In Leeds, students and teachers collaborated to create an eco-friendly garden, the project, which included vegetable patches, a pond, wildlife area and again teaching children about sustainability and providing a peaceful place for the community.
Speaker 2:Lovely Educational and recreational.
Speaker 1:Yes, enjoying, and also, yeah, can you?
Speaker 2:imagine if they planted weed. I don't know why my mind goes there, but you're like oh yeah, let's get this community spirit up, let's get everyone chilling out.
Speaker 1:This is our mushroom patch, yeah.
Speaker 2:But yes, sorry, very uplifting story I don't know why I'm going down the abuse train now, you're terrible, I'm abusing these things now.
Speaker 1:Yeah, this is supposed to be like. This is uplifting stories episode and you're just. People are awful. They're doing it for this. It's not for the right reasons. So back up to Scotland.
Speaker 2:Hey Scotland, scotland are uplifting.
Speaker 1:The Scots are good people.
Speaker 2:This is why they want independence. I get it now, yeah.
Speaker 1:I get it now. Yeah, the Scots are good people. Yeah, a cafe in Edinburgh, edinburgh, edinburgh, known as the little Edinburgh. Have you seen that girl on TikTok? Yes, and then you've seen the Welsh guy reacting to her reacting.
Speaker 2:Because she's doing it to be funny isn't she, she is doing it to be funny. Leicester.
Speaker 1:Leicester, oh God, that got me Glaucester.
Speaker 2:Glaucester and she went to what shop was it? It wasn't Primark, but it was something like a high street shop.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:She mispronounced it so badly, but it was so funny yeah.
Speaker 1:I know she's doing it as a joke. She is doing it as a joke, she knows what they're actually. But then you've seen the welsh guy reacting to it, where he's all shouty it's just.
Speaker 2:It's just, it's got the right amount of anger that they yeah yeah, tourist, it's brilliant she was in bath and she was like I haven't seen any baths and I was just so, it's just so funny.
Speaker 1:Yeah, check her out, she's funny oh god, was that the one who talks about the meal deal as well?
Speaker 2:yeah, yeah, I think it is yeah, one who talks about the meal deal as well. Yeah, yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's all about the meal deal. Brilliant, yeah, so yeah. A cafe in Edinburgh known as the Little Chart Room began offering free meals to anyone in need. No questions asked.
Speaker 2:We have something like this in Norwich as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:There is a vegan Indian restaurant in Norwich called Namaste and when you're in there and you have your own meal, you can then also pay it forward. And you can pay for someone's meal and then they put it in the window and then anyone that needs that meal they can just take it out the window and get their meal free.
Speaker 1:I like that. It's very cool. I do like that. Again, it's helping each other out. I'm all for it. Yeah, this next one, this is the last one from around the world Around the UK. Around the UK, sorry. And then we've got five from Norfolk. I don't know how this would work.
Speaker 2:Would you like to explain it to our listeners?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it says. In response to social distancing measures, a virtual choir was formed, allowing singers from all over the UK to perform together online. The choir has released several heartwarming performances, spreading joy and maintaining connections among participants.
Speaker 2:I know where you're going with this. Do you know how?
Speaker 1:hard that is to do.
Speaker 2:It is very difficult to do. We tried this in lockdown when I was in a band and he was playing the guitar and I was singing over the top, but because of the delay in technology it's so difficult. What I can imagine this is is that they're all recorded separately and brought together. There is someone that probably mixes the love.
Speaker 1:You couldn't do that live.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm saying that guy, that person's job of mixing all that, hats off to them.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:How many people do you think is in this choir?
Speaker 1:I don't know. It says I don't know, but you couldn't do that live.
Speaker 2:Also, there's a part of me that wants to really get involved with that Do you want to do it?
Speaker 1:Yeah, do you want to have a little look?
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:Have you seen talking about choirs? Have you seen that little video of the Christmas choir where there's that one mum just going way over the top with her glasses? I'll have to send that to you. It's brilliant.
Speaker 2:I love that.
Speaker 1:It's like somebody had a gummy before she went. But no, I think that's an amazing idea, but I might have to look at that.
Speaker 2:The logistics, the logistics of it, how it would work Okay. With choirs. I hope that today's choirs, modern choirs, do modern songs. When often you think of the word choir, I immediately think of religious and I always do yeah, which is absolutely fine, and that is where the original you know where it kind of all originally come from that's what choirs were were designed yeah, yeah communities coming together and all singing together and it sounds beautiful. Um, but I do like it. There is a modern rock choir.
Speaker 1:There is.
Speaker 2:And they did. What was it? I think it might have been Papa Roach Last Resort.
Speaker 1:Oh, amazing.
Speaker 2:And it was so good. But you can see these people of an elderly generation thinking one how do you know this song? And it just makes you think of that, and they're just like you know. Oh, it was also rage against the machine as well, because I could just remember this like elderly woman going killing in the name of and I was like amazing.
Speaker 1:You're so cool, amazing well, there's, that's why I was just looking at my phone. Sorry then, spotify started playing. Um is? There is a song that I heard the other day, uh, by the rock orchestra, because it is a full-on orchestra and they do a version of zombie now the cranberry song you know how I feel about people covering that song I do know how you feel about that that is amazing good. That is such a good cover. It is so, so good, so good don't listen to miley cyrus's cover.
Speaker 2:hell no, hell no, it's not good.
Speaker 1:It's really not good, but I love it as well when they get say like they have thousands of musicians playing one song. You know they did it with like Linkin Park. When they did it with Linkin Park after Chester died, yeah.
Speaker 2:Oh my God, there was one. What was really famous one is it the? Is it red hot chili peppers or foo fighters song, or? There is a few fighters, one yeah, but they're all in the crowd oh no, oh, no, sorry, I'm lying, it's bohemian rhapsody oh, yeah, yeah it's been in rhapsody. When they get like, what is it like?
Speaker 1:50 drummers, 50 singers, 50 I think it's 50 of every basically instrument within that song yeah um, and there's like 50 people on the keyboard and the singers I know are like two singers kind of almost per mic yeah um, that was really cool, and they do the whole bohemian rap yeah, when they do that all these musicians coming together to perform the same song and you can just see on their faces how much they're enjoying it and how much it's I saw this clip very recently.
Speaker 2:I know that, like oasis has obviously dropped some tickets and stuff and I think it was through manchester probably, because obviously oasis is quite hot in Manchester, it's where they're from. They were all like oh, they tacked. Well, they were all walking up to the gig and they're all singing. Don't Look Back in Anger.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:How sweet, like just random people on the street all lining up to go to the venue, just singing, yeah, how I mean I'm not a massive Oasis fan but also like how cool is that?
Speaker 1:fan but also like how cool is that? Yeah, it's amazing, it's amazing, yeah, so we've got, we've got five local ones now, hey, I'm surprised. I'm actually surprised your mum's not on here, because she did something very good for the community. Uh, we'll make that the last one we'll make that number six.
Speaker 2:We'll make that number six so you know grapes hill I am aware of the location of grapes hill.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, so there is a community garden at Grapes Hill. It has been made by local volunteers when I don't know, but apparently there's one there.
Speaker 2:Okay, maybe we need to go on a hunt, it says.
Speaker 1:the Grapes Hill Community Garden in Norwich has become a vibrant green space thanks to local volunteers. The garden provides a peaceful retreat for residents, promoting biodiversity, and offers educational workshops on gardening and sustainability.
Speaker 2:Nice. Go on Grapes Hill, up the Grapes Hill, up the Grapes Hill or down the.
Speaker 1:Grapes Hill or down the Grapes Hill. We've also got a primary school in Kings Lynn.
Speaker 2:Is that Norfolk?
Speaker 1:It is still Norfolk.
Speaker 2:It is still Norfolk, but it's right in there, george Russell, eat your heart out. Yeah, exactly, it's on the border.
Speaker 1:You don't even know who George Russell is? Do you no idea? It's on the border. It's on the border between that and Lincolnshire. Teachers and students transformed an unused playground area into a small nature reserve. There's a lot of this going on, isn't there?
Speaker 2:Oh Hotel, wildflower meadows.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So it's giving back to the community, but it's also looking at sustainability, biodiversity and looking after the planet For the bees For the bees For the bees. Yeah, I like that. Then we had a group of dedicated volunteers in Great Yarmouth.
Speaker 1:Ooh, great Yarmouth Regularly organises beach clean-up events to tackle plastic pollution and keep the coastline pristine nice, I like that good job this is similar to what your mum did yeah and yeah, I think that because the beaches do get abused, the water gets abused, the beaches gets abused, so to have people go and clean up the beaches, I think is brilliant.
Speaker 2:It's not necessarily people on the beach abusing the beaches. What's washed up on the beach? Oh yeah, you get both. You get both.
Speaker 1:I love this Norfolk woman knits for charity.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay.
Speaker 1:A woman from Cromer has knitted hundreds of items, including hats, scarves and blankets, for local charities and hospitals. Her knitting group Crafting for a Cause has donated handmade goods to those in need, bringing comfort and warmth to many.
Speaker 2:That's beautiful.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Good job, Lady from Cromer.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Mabel. I don't know if her name is Mabel. I don't know if her name is Mabel, it might be Ethel.
Speaker 2:It might not even be an old woman.
Speaker 1:It might not be.
Speaker 2:It might be a young eye crochet, and I'm not, mabel. Look at your little eye crochet.
Speaker 1:Eye crochet I used to crochet. And the last one is a community in Readham came together to restore the village's historic windmill oh yes, turning it into a visitor centre and a museum. The project has preserved an important piece of local heritage whilst creating a new attraction for both residents and tourists, and we love. Readham. We do love Readham.
Speaker 2:That's where Fairy Fest is.
Speaker 1:It is where Fairy Fest is, would you?
Speaker 2:like to talk about number six on the list.
Speaker 1:So number six is yes, it's not even on the list, but your mum has done some really good work, and especially for keeping rivers clean. Yes, she has organised river clean-ups and I've seen pictures of the amount of rubbish and just the pollution that your mum has helped clean up inside our local rivers.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:She does a really good job, an amazing job. Up the bonus mum. Up the bonus mum. I'm not going to say that.
Speaker 2:No, you can't say that, but I can.
Speaker 1:You can, you can, yes, so well done, good job bonus mum Well done, done, sharon. Yeah, good job so yeah, so there you go. So what do you think, hannah, I'm uplifted. You're uplifted, so there are nice things in the world.
Speaker 2:There are lovely things in the world. I think if I was to choose a favourite yeah, I mean, I, for the pure kind of you wouldn't expect it is the 15-year-old lad in Devon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, that's cool. Yeah, he's done well there.
Speaker 2:I think for a lad, for young people to think about others in that way as well, he's definitely had a good upbringing. Let's say I think that's great. Yeah, and I'm all for the community fridges. I think they're fantastic.
Speaker 1:My favourite ones are the transformation ones. Yeah, we're transforming something that's run down, you know going to waste, but then transforming it into something beautiful. I like those ones.
Speaker 2:I like those stories nice. Yeah, refurbishment refurbishment stories. Yes, yes, well, if you enjoyed this episode of bonus dad, bonus daughter, there are plenty more that we've done previous to this one. Just check it out on all streaming platforms. We are on all of them, I think.
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