The Big Issue - UK (2020-11-30)

READER

FEELGOOD

LIST OF

THE WEEK

By Ellen Storey

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In the run-up to Christmas, we’re turning the Big List into the

FEELGOOD List – a repository of simple, everyday reasons to be

cheerful, selected by our readers (and a few by us). We want to share

the simple and eff ective things that help put a smile on all of our

faces. Got a Feelgood List of your own to share?

Then tweet us @BigIssue or email [email protected]

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WATC HThe Cider

House Rules – a

celebration of life and

whathomemeans.

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CHECK OUT the Special

Books for Special Kids

website (sbsk.org) – some truly

brave, inspiring and loving

peopleonthere.

VISIT postcrossing.com

to send and receive

rds from around the world

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vassing lea�lets �lopping

hrough the door).

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SIT by a river

when the sun is low and

let the light bounce o�f the water

intoyourface.

06

WATC H an episode of

Top of the Pops 2 from the

early ’80s and watch people bop

astheysing.

07

BUY a

wobble board.

Revisit Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra

singing Well, Did You Evah?

Samantha Fiander suggests a quick YouTube search for this joyful

clipoftwo of the all-time greats sharing the screen together – drunk as

lords. Story goes that this Cole Porter number was added to 1956 movie

High Society at the last minute, purely to give Frank’n’Bing an excuse to

duet (while slurping champagne).

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Organisea

video call

Christmas cake

bake-along

Separated by local authority

boundaries, Annie in Renfrewshire

can’t see her friend for a seasonal

baking session as she normally

would at this time of year. Nothing

a kitchen-based Zoom session can’t

solve. “There will be a co-ordinated

Christmas music playlist,” she says.

“And champagne.”

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Buy an Arctic

Monkeys live

album and support

War Child

Recorded at London’s Royal Albert

Hall in London in June 2018 – not

long before they appeared on the

cover of The Big Issue – She�fi eld’s

fi nest are releasing a career-

spanning live album in time for

Christmas. Just as proceeds from

the show were, all profi ts from the

record will be given to War Child UK,

to support the charity for children

a�fected by con�lict. Released Dec 4;

rah.arcticmonkeys.com

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