You're Doing It Right

Now this sounds interesting, theatre in a pub.

I think Hannah Nicklin deserves a YDIR for seeing a problem and doing something about it. I love your attitude, and award you a YDIR for coming up with a great idea and following it up (the difficult part).

Here is a quote taken from her website www.performanceinthepub.co.uk

“I realised that I’d been complaining about the lack of innovative programming in Leicester’s theatres, but doing nothing about it”

So she came up with the idea of putting on a small scale storytelling performance in a pub. The first ever performance in a pub event is 2nd February (that is soon!) at the Crumblin’ Cookie pub in Leicester. Performanceinthepub.co.uk has all the details and more about the concept, so head over there for the full details, and if you are in Leicester on Thursday 2nd Feb, it’s got to be worth a look.

Best of luck with your project, Hannah Nicklin, You’re Doing It Right !

Today I would like to give a YDIR to all the volunteers that making scouting happen for young people all over the world.

With such an old institution (over 100 years old!) there is a lot of stigma and baggage, half truths and rumours that tend to stick in people minds, all I know is that every single day there are people giving up their spare time to pass their knowledge and skills onto the next generation. I would urge you to find out a bit more about what really happens in a modern Scout Group, www.scouts.org.uk is a pretty good place to start, it is about the UK scout association, but they do a great a job of showcasing what modern scouting is all about. There is of course a fair bit of PR shine applied, but they might be able to point you in the direction of your local group so you can see for yourself all the amazing hard work people who volunteer for scouting do.

Scout, Cub & Beaver leaders, yore doing it right!

When I was thinking about today’s blog, I started thinking about all the people who inspired me to start this thing.
One person who came to mind was Jimmy Savile, now some people may have grown up watching him present Top of the Pops, or Jim’ll fix it or some of you may have no idea who he is at all, but for me the most important thing he did was raise an estimated £40 million pounds for charity.

He did this not because it was the done thing or it furthered his career, but  because it was the right thing to do.

Jimmy Savile : You Did It Right

P.S I am always looking for new people things or events to feature on this blog, so if you know someone that is doing it right and would like them to feature then please email me on mrydir@gmail.com. Don’t forget to use the #YDIR for mini shout outs that will appear on our Twitter feed and lastly you can follow me on Twitter @Mr_Ydir

Yesterday I mentioned that I intended to give a face to face YDIR.
I think it is best not to say too much,  so as not to run the risk of breaking my place of work’s media policy, but it went well. As I mentioned yesterday being British made this simple act an actual challenge!
She was talking to another colleague with another one sat beside her, but I resisted the urge to bail and managed to get my point across, sharing mutual mumbles and nods. I am pretty sure she felt better about herself so job done

Just before I go there was something else that caught my eye today.
There is a jogging frog raising money for the Giant Puppet Project, Siem Reap in Cambodia!

Now on further inception of her blog, it seams it is an actual female human being dressed as a frog, which is a slight disappointment, until you see her costume! There are only two days of jogging left, which isn’t a lot of notice to cancel all plans and head to Bristol to see a woman dressed as frog jogging during rush hour, but is is plenty of time to visit her site and find out a bit more about what prompts a realtivly sane looking woman to  jog dressed as a frog.

http://frogjogblog.blogspot.com/

Annelies Puddy, you’re  doing it right!

I never though I’d blog about toilets, but then again I never thought I’d blog at all!

Today’s YDIR goes to who ever came up with the idea of asking businesses to open their toilets the public.

Blaenau Gwent council came up with the idea to improve the availability of public conveniences, so there will be 35 local business that will have a community toilet sticker. I’m not saying if there was enough demand I visit them all to add to the gallery of YDIRs in action, but if some who reads this blog wants to provide pics I will happily upload them.

Tomorrow’s blog is reliant on me telling someone face to face that they are doing it right, which being British is an extremely hard thing to do, but they are doing the right thing so I need to make sure they know it.

Mr Ydir

Right I am not 100% sure about this blog post, as I don’t know if I want to give a YDIR to someone who is already in the public eye, but then on the other hand just because you are not an unknown, doesn’t mean you should be excluded from some telling you have done a good job.

The link below is for a song which has to an extent inspired me to write this blog, plus the singer is one of my heroes.

Gruff Rhys: Whale Trail

The video is probably like nothing you have ever seen before, I wouldn’t get too hung up on trying to understand it, just accept and enjoy the madness. The lyric that I found most inspiring and fitting with what I would like the YDIR community to be kicks in at 1.54  ” We can create so much together, we could get to Mars and back  for snacks and video games, this is a motivational song, so lets get along, don’t take so long, take over”

Mr Rhys’ genius is well documented on the rest of the web, so I’ll just end by saying thank you Gruff for making wonderful songs that make the world a better place and keep doing it right.

Mr Ydir

I had a completely different idea for today’s blog, but whilst I was out and about I stumbled across some people doing it right.

So I took out my phone and made some mental notes, so I could give their good deed a wider auidence.

What I found was a group of fire and recuse workers climbing a ladder 1,340 times to raise money for the firefighters charity and wooden spoon (which i thibk i need to find out more about, as from the small poster they had up they do sound very interesting)

Now the signifgance of the 1,340 steos, was to make it the equivlnet to the height of Mount Everest, and well the signifgance of the ladder is I assume becuase they are all fire and recuse workers.  I suppose if I was to do an equilvent challenge it would invlove 10,000 shuttle runs between the printer and tea piont.

I am going to try and add some of the aforementioned footage I captured using my phone to the end of this post but I’ve never tried this before so it might wrong. (sorry Dusty if I break your site).

As well as those  going up the ladder, I don’t won’t to forget all those people who helped make it happen, so well done to all your guys too and keep doing it right!

Mr Ydir

First time I have posted a pic so I am more worried about getting it to display than coming up with a clever caption

Hello again,

Today’s post is dedicated to an unnamed member of the West of England MS Therapy Center.
 
I’m sure you have at vague awareness of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and if you are reading this you have access to the internet so you can find out just about everything you would like to know about this condtion in a few clicks (what an age we live in!) so I won’t talk about that.

Today the West of England MS Therapy Center ( WOEMSTC ?) announced one of their members and her father are planning to cycle from Land Ends to John O’Groats to raise money for the center.

Whilst UK readers may be familiar with this cycle route, for those who don’t know this cycle route is the length of Britain and over 800 miles long!

In order to raise awareness and money, their are holding a fundraising event at The King’s Head in Pill (village in North Somerset) on Saturday 3rd March 4-9pm. You can read the full press release on their Facebook page here

So unnamed cyclists I will be keeping an eye on your progress and don’t forget You’re Doing it Right!

Mr Ydir

P.S I have a bit of a soft spot for charity events, and In my other spare time I like to plan and help where possible, so if you have a charity story you want me to write about please get in touch. If you want some ideas and support with your charity event, I will certianly have a go at helping you out with that as well.

My good friend is also getting married this year (ive got to that age where most of my friends are getting married) and he was telling me about this place he is hiring his suits from.

www.menshire.co.uk Have a really nice set up, he went along with his fiancee and 21 month old son to what turn out to be the consultants house, where she had toys ready for his son and a showroom with suits in the various different styles and colours.

The consultant, Sam was very good at explaing about choosing the a suitable style and colour to make him look his best (of course all the focus will be on the bride, but he might as well look good too) They have a very good service as well which allows for those who dont live locally to be meauserd and pick up their suit at place closer to them.

so well done menshire.co.uk you’re doing it right.

My Ydir