The Hello You Sunday Supplement, Issue 25
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Hello, you. How’re you doing?
Let me bring you some warmth and sunshine on this grey, wet morning. Here are a couple of dozen links to explore, that I hope will divert, amuse and inform you.
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It’s a bit quiet this morning, so let’s fix that with …
Something to listen to while you read
If you ever need twenty minutes’ cheer-up time, you can’t go wrong with NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts. Every genre, every style, huge stars and fast-rising new discoveries, all recorded around a tiny desk in National Public Radio’s production office. Here are ten great Tiny Desks from last year, including a scorcher from Chaka Khan, but for this morning, I give you this joyful showcase from Old Crow Medicine Show
What went right this week
Wales considered sacking politicians who lie, clean energy supercharged China’s economy, and the ocean came into focus, plus more good news from the good people at Positive News
OK then, on with the Good Stuff!
How to be happy with what you have
Architects transform 'odd-shaped' car park into a colourful tiny-home village for homeless people because they’re more effective than group shelters
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy is the most moving romcom of modern times (contains *many* spoilers!)
Women are fighting back against the resurgence of ‘bro culture’
The antidote to despair and fear isn’t new joy but old joy rediscovered
As ever, most of today’s Hello You Sunday Supplement will be positive, uplifting, informative, even funny. But there are a few things I feel I have an obligation to put before you. I’m sorry. I wish I didn’t have to show you this
'Taking up football in my forties changed my life'
The BBC asked marginalised groups how it could do better. Oh boy ...
What You Don't Know Means Everything to Me (Shaun Paul Tomkiss is a Shropshire-based music writer. His stuff is fantastic. Subscribe to his Substack?)
'I thought, ‘what a great job it is to be a radio DJ’, and I was dreaming of that'
According to certain media AuDHD is 'not real' and a 'free pass'. This is not only ignorant, but extremely dangerous
Notable Sandwiches #117: Mettbrötchen (this seems like a Very Bad Idea Indeed)
Britain’s unearned wealth has ballooned. A modest capital tax could help avoid austerity and boost the economy
More of the good stuff in a moment, but first …
Hello You 87: Exercise and mental health at Oswestry's Soma Space
'It's a reliable tool for proving yourself wrong'
If, like me, you’ve ever sought help with your mental health, you’ve probably been told that exercise and physical activity can boost your mood and aid your recovery.
The problem is, when your mental health’s not great, often the last thing you feel like doing is any exercise or physical activity.
Jo Hazell-Watkins and Kevin Braddock learned how helpful fitness and strength training can be when people’s mental health isn’t great, from their own personal experiences. They also realised that people who could really benefit from being more active were often finding it hard to access the support they need in a way that suited them. That led them to set up The Soma Space, in Oswestry’s Memorial Hall.
In this episode of Hello You the Shropshire podcast, you can hear Jo and Kevin’s stories, and find out what the Soma Space has to offer.
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OK, back to your weekly good-stuff round-up!
Joy, joining together and giant veg: highlights from the Portrait of Britain prize
When did rock die? Should it have just eaten more steak?
Four big things we (journalists) need to do now
As Tina Brown says: Oh shit
Embracing your inner weirdo is cool
Funny what being more open about your age can do
We're in an information war, but the media are totally unequipped to deal with it
They want us to wish we'd stayed quiet. And maybe that's the best argument for why we shouldn't
Ten questions about vinyl records beginners are too afraid to ask
How to delete Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
If you read one thing this week, make it this
How to spot red flags for burnout in yourself and coworkers
Final Thought, à la Jerry Springer
How was that for you?
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Sorry.
I only got as far as the link to Chaka Khan's Tiny Desk concert and the rest of my Sunday just vanished.
Did anything of interest happen?