The Hello You Sunday Supplement, Issue 41
I Get Around
Hello, you.
Well, that was quite a week, wasn’t it? How do we even … How are you getting through these times?
Sorry, I shouldn’t have started the Sunday Supplement that way. I write this every week so you have good stuff to read that helps to take your mind off everything that’s going on in the world, but sometimes … and there I go again.
Hello to new subscribers! There’s been a very gratifying increase in members of the Hello You family over the last couple of weeks, I’m very happy to say. If you’re new, then I hope it feels like home, or it’ll start to after a few weeks. Pull up a chair to the Hello You Virtual Kitchen Table and make yourself comfortable.
The Sunday Supplement is a weekly digest of links and recommendations that I think will make your life better in some way, big or small. It should’ve been with you earlier than this, but … life, again. Anyway, it’s here now, so I hope you enjoy exploring what’s in this week’s basket of goodies, starting as always with …
Something to listen to while you read
Two geniuses, two albums:
I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times
The world got ten new marine reserves, a ‘shameful’ law against rough sleeping is to be axed and Positive News won an award plus more good news from the good people at Positive News
I Want To Take You Higher
Stoke pottery firm saved from liquidation after founder's grandson buys company
Waves of creativity bring the UK coastline to life
A Father's Day card for a world done wrong by ego and bravado
A school prom isn’t just a party. It can equip teens with life skills
I’m so saddened by the deaths of both Brian Wilson and Sly Stone. Kudos to Associated Press for treating them as equally significant geniuses, as they deserve
Shropshire's own Shaun Paul Tomkiss assesses Brian Wilson perfectly
Does this ring any bells?
Thriller in England: Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout at forty
Are reporters doing a good job covering protests? Four questions to ask of your media diet
It’s time to support grassroots music venues with a £1 ticket levy
Spending review: Tough times ahead for many of the most vulnerable in our society, and around the world
‘How many people were arrested?’ is a lousy way to cover protests
Endometriosis: difficult childhood linked with greater likelihood of being diagnosed
Why are men still considered the default?
Police dogs deserve a pension too
More of the good stuff in just a moment, but first …
On Hello You the Shropshire podcast this past week:
Discontent in Cell Block Number 9
What would make you quit a job you loved?
Donna, Paul and Stephen used to work at Shrewsbury Prison. They say they’d found their dream jobs … so what led them, and others, to leave?
Donna, Paul and Stephen shared their stories with me. These stories raised questions that needed answers, so I spoke to Joel Campbell, CEO of the company that owns and runs the prison, for his response
Hear what each side has to say in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast.
The Shrewsbury Prison story came in via the Hello You Tip Line …
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What is it? What's it for? Should you use it? How does it work?
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'Then along comes Offa ...'
Offa’s Dyke is hugely significant … and, for that matter, huge.
But how much do we in Shropshire know or understand about it? Or about the nature of the border between us and our neighbours to the west?
Find out in this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast.
You won’t find this anywhere else
Intelligent, informed, progressive and sometimes quirky conversation for and about Shropshire, enjoyed around the world
Compassionate storytelling, trying to make the world a better place
About stuff, and things: mental health and wellbeing, history and heritage, faith and belief, work and play … all told through people’s authentic stories. Want more?
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Heroes and Villains
EHRC says right to privacy doesn’t apply to Trans+ people. European court says it does
Your gut instinct is real. Stop second-guessing it
'X’s ‘Grok’ created an AI sexualised image of me without my consent'
It’s time to change the way the media reports on protests. Here are some ideas (this piece is five years old but sadly, it's still relevant today)
‘These were tough dudes – and notoriously romantic’
Horrific, bizarre, lonely: how women going through the menopause describe their experiences
16 characters from a film noir never made: Found Photos from the American Dream
Four myths about ‘low-skilled’ migration busted
Being chronically online might make you feel plugged in. But in reality, it’s disconnecting you from your most valuable tools
Two hundred and one ways to say ‘fuck’
Stand!
Whether wistful or euphoric, Brian Wilson made pop’s most overwhelmingly beautiful music
Surf’s Up
And I don't know a soul who's not been battered
I don't have a friend who feels at ease
I don't know a dream that's not been shattered
Or driven to its knees
But it's alright, it's alright
For we lived so well so long
Still, when I think of the road we're traveling on
I wonder what's gone wrong
I can't help it, I wonder what has gone wrong
'American Tune', Paul Simon
Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)
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