IF someone does something kind, it’s natural to want to say ‘thank you’, but sometimes we don’t always get – or take – the opportunity. Yet expressing gratitude is scientifically proven to make us more happy, caring and connected.
As part of the Frome Kindness Festival, this new column in the Frome Times aims to make it easier to say ‘thank you’ to friends, neighbours and colleagues as well as to the people we don’t know by name.
If you want to say thank you to someone, email: thankyoufrome@gmail.com
• To Abby Atkins, (Headteacher, Avanti Park School). Thank you for your work, strength, energy and patience. For standing at the school gate in all weathers and welcoming our community. We appreciate you.
• Thank you to all the volunteers of Frome community fridge. It’s amazing what you do for the community and give it away for free.
• To everyone and anyone who’s smiled at me in the street over the last few years, whoever you are, especially if I don’t know you. You will have made my day just that bit worth living.
• Big thank you hugs to all the staff at St John’s First School who have worked so incredibly hard and truly pulled rabbits out of hats these last two years. You guys absolutely rock! From a very grateful Grammy X.
• A huge thank you to Jess (and Wystan and Úrsula) for knowing everything and everyone, and making us feel so welcome when we first moved. I know lots of people feel the same. A local legend. Martha.
• Dear Mimmo my Iyengar yoga teacher and dear friend. Thank you for sharing your yoga knowledge and wisdom. And for shining the light on the wonderful path of yoga. However most of all a big thank you for your kindness.
• Thank you Stu, for coming out on a last-minute call for help, with tools and kit and skills, to help secure the wooden hut from falling down after the heavy winds.
• Thank you Jez, for your kindness in putting me up for the night, bringing me herbal tea to help with sleep, and even making me breakfast.
• Thank you, Merlin, for bringing me vitamin tablets during my self-isolation and also kindly collecting my prescription.
• Thank you, Thomas, for such kind consideration about my cold-weather struggle with hands and feet, buying me a pair of merino-wool socks, and a set of gel hand warmers!
