Let’s face it, we need a smile or two at the mo.
So hats – and masks – off to these guys whose creative response to coronavirus is helping to keep tickling the ribs of York and the wider world.
If you’ve spotted a funny or uplifting post, picture or video, do send it to us at [email protected]
A big message on a small canvas
This from the always entertaining York street artist who doesn’t have to go large to make his point…
Football’s staying home…
In 2014 two Huntington School teachers, Robin Parmiter and Ian Wilson, teamed up as pop due Disco Mister to write and record a hugely catchy World Cup song for England’s campaign in Brazil, ‘Bring It Home’. Now Ian has reworked the song – a sort of lockdown mix…
Grease is the word
Meanwhile those wonderful folk at the York NHS Trust made the same point to a classic musical number…
Everyone is taking precautions
You don’t become the leader of an empire by being reckless with your health.
The NRM went all Blue Peter on us
Already been using them to make little pots for my garden!
— Sam Alderson (@GoodPlanSam) March 25, 2020
Shout out to @WhoGivesACrapTP in the background! pic.twitter.com/C5slh8PTfw
Only had 24 minutes and had to supplement from my #aluminium recycling collection due to lack of toilet roll tubes… but here’s a choochoo for you 😊#FunWithRecycling pic.twitter.com/Y9d8zRBaG3
— Foil for Snappy (@FoilForSnappy) March 25, 2020
Time's up! Thanks for sharing your creations!
— National Railway Museum (@railwaymuseum) March 26, 2020
We made some prototype binoculars and decorated them with used tinfoil and colored pens.
You have to use your imagination to make them work, but they're helping us enjoy the outdoors while we're safe indoors 🏡 pic.twitter.com/P9XLSqFkqC
Talking of loo rolls…
Ghost walker and all-round entertainer Trevor Rooney has come up with not one, but two songs inspired by the crisis. Here’s his take on the great toilet roll panic buying malarkey…
And this is Trevor’s Lockdown song…
And here’s Mouse Print on toilet rolls
Laura rocks a power ballad
Here’s how to get through self-isolation by Minster FM’s Laura Castle.
Everybody: ‘You can watch Netflix, and Disney+…’
Be a Stay At Home superhero
A bit of fun with a serious message from York Autism Hub…
Tony’s Castaway moment
I think we’re all going a little stir crazy…
Who’s a good boy?
And a happy note to end on, courtesy of York’s local democracy reporter Chloe Laversuch.