These good news tales about the kindness of strangers are intended to be uplifting and give readers faith in humanity.
Today is the shortest day in the northern hemisphere – a day many of us need a little extra kindness. Whether you’re celebrating the Solstice or wishing for the end of SAD season, let’s spread some extra kindness today and bring some light into someone’s life. Like my friend, Nicky, who took some chocolates for […]
Celebrate kindness – saving dogs and owner from the rain Fabulous kindness story from my colleague and friend, Alexis Bushnell. In the torrential rain of a recent storm, she was out walking her dogs (well these lovely dogs weren’t going to walk themselves!). When waiting to cross the road (not at a crossing), a car
Share kindness: If you’re tall, help someone in the supermarket reach the pasta on the top shelf. I’m 5’10” so this happens to me all the time. Over the years I’ve helped people reach hats and T-shirts on high hooks. Books and papers on high shelves. My most recent was to help an elderly lady
Celebrate kindness – kindness in a medical setting On Saturday I had to take my daughter to an appointment at an out of hours clinic at our local hospital. As we sat in the waiting room, I was struck by the kindness on display: There was a mum with a 2-year-old who had got the
Share kindness: Let someone in front of you when they’re in a rush. You know that thing when you’re in a supermarket queue and you can just tell that the person behind you is in a rush? They might be bouncing on the balls of their feel, checking their watch repeatedly or huffing and puffing.
Day 3: Amplify kindness: A joyful story of connection to make us all smile on a Friday afternoon. My friend, Debs, went for her covid booster this morning. She was given the Moderna vaccine. She got chatting to an Italian gentleman in the queue and they were reading through the possible side effects. He laughed
Sprout-related kindness – who knew?! In the supermarket last week my husband and I looked in vain for some sort of bag to put our sprouts in. Failing to find anything, we put 10 individual sprouts on the weighing scales and then into the trolley. (Clarification: we weighed them as a group, not individually 
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“I just wanted to make someone’s day happier!” I love this kindness story, shared by Beccie D’Cunha via LinkedIn. She explains, “I lost my wallet on Saturday night. I got this note through the door on Sunday. “The man who left me this note was cycling along when he spotted my driving licence in the
My friend took her 4-year-old grandson, O, to the beach near where they live the other day. They had a play and then had some chips 
As is the way with British seaside weather, it was a bit rainy and chilly so they had their chips in a shelter. When O saw a toddler
This kindness story comes to us from my friend and business coach, the lovely Debs Henry-Pollard. “There is an ice cream van comes to my road every day in the summer and I have never used it. Last week, on a whim, I decided to go down and get a Magnum. “The van didn’t take
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