We all have expertise in something. It may be a work skill, a hobby or a life skill. You may have detailed knowledge of your favourite book or film. You may have expert understanding of what makes others tick. Or of what makes you tick. But we can’t all be experts in everything. Sharing our […]
Have you watched Becky Goddard-Hill TEDx talk on raising kind kids? I absolutely loved it! From the story she told at the start to sharing how she learned to be kind from her mother and the importance of kindness to the emotional wellbeing of our children, Becky is a kindness superhero. Do give it a
Share kindness and donate quality clothes and stuff that you no longer need to your local charity shop. Just like when @visitbanbury undertook the distribution of lots of wonderful donated items in November this year. The items had come from local people to be given to others within their community in Banbury. This was part
My next door neighbours have just had new windows fitted. Since we live in 3-storey houses, they had to have scaffolding put on the back of the house so that the window fitters could reach the top floor! So what’s that got to do with kindness? Well, the scaffolding has blocked the signal to our
Throughout 2021 I have featured lots of wonderful guest writers for the ‘What If’ kindness series. I decided that the final one of the year should come from me! In January this year, I did two things that proved to be significant: I wrote a LinkedIn article and opened it with the words ‘This year
Celebrate kindness – community and neighbours Last Friday lunchtime, I went to fill up the kettle for my cuppa soup and just a trickle came out of my tap. After checking that there weren’t any water company vans in the street, I put a message on the WhatsApp group for my road. I asked whether
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.
Another guinea pig related story, this time about the vet! My friend sent me this message about the kindness of vets and the difficult job they have to do. “Sadly we had to have one of our guinea pigs put to sleep after half-term. It was very upsetting for my older daughter as it was
My friend, Lucy, recently contacted me about something she described as a “lovely kindness experience”. I think sometimes we can take great customer service for granted, even as we complain bitterly when we don’t get it. So it was nice to hear about an experience described in these terms. “I had a long, messy problem
We are lucky enough to be having a new kitchen fitted, with the build starting later this week. So we need to empty out all the ‘stuff’ from the current cabinets and box it up to store out of the way. Even allowing for a long overdue declutter, we need quite a few boxes. So
