The Antidote: Five happy things to read about today, September 9 – Stuff

We live in unusual times. It all gets a bit much some days. So each weekday we’re bringing you a much-needed dose of positivity to remind you that there’s inspiration, kindness, and quirkiness out there too.
Andrea Castrillon is a medical specialist from Medellin, Colombia, and her bestie is a bovine called Clementina.
Clementina was bound for slaughter, but Castrillon was able to step in and give her a new home on her farm where she hosts many rescue animals.
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“Clementina is a supremely loving being,” Castrillon said.
The cow loves kisses and hugs, and is very sociable, according to her owner.
The pair, who have been together for three-and-a-half years, are capturing hearts on social media, Metro co.uk reports.
Instagram videos show the cow cosying up with dogs that live on the farm where Clementina grew from a calf to the big pet she is today.
We’d like to share this great story recounted here by a former bodyguard to the Queen.
Former royal protection officer Richard Griffin, known as Dick, tells how the Queen handled an encounter with a pair of American tourists who did not recognise her in the Scottish hills near her castle at Balmoral.
The sightseer asked the Queen where she lived, so she said London, adding that she had a holiday home just over the hill and had been visiting she was a little girl.
The tourist then asked her if she had ever met the Queen, Griffin said.
“Quick as a flash she said: ‘I haven’t, but Dick here meets her regularly’,” Griffin told Sky News during the platinum jubilee celebrations earlier this year.
And there is more to this royal tale. Watch the clip below to hear Griffin tell what is quite possibly the best yarn we’ve heard about the late monarch and her great sense of humour.
Solomon Islander Webster Malefo Anisi was missing at sea for nearly seven weeks before being rescued in Papua New Guinea. He was returned to the capital Honiara at the weekend.
His family, believing he had died, had even held a memorial service for him, 1News reported.
Watch as heartwarming moment he was reunited with his loved ones on his happy homecoming.
We know they’re sly, quick, and they don’t live here, but a fox is at the centre of this feel-good tale from Scotland.
A family helped a badly injured fox that followed Liz Wink’s son home from school.
The family put food in the garden and bought the fox – given the name Florence – a tent to sleep in, the BBC reports.
A vet attended to Florence and gave her antibiotics for the wound, which may have come from a dog bite.
She became quite tame, as content on daughter Lucy Wink’s TikTok account shows, but a fortnight – and a full recovery later – the fox left the family whose lives it touched in Glasgow.
Grandmother Doña Ángela Garfias Vázquez wanted to share her love of cooking with the world, so she started making family recipes on a wooden stove from her ranch in Mexico.
She then used a cellphone, with the help of her daughter, to post the videos on YouTube.
The foodie started her YouTube cooking page in 2019, now she’s a YouTube sensation with more than 4 million subscribers who can’t get enough of her relaxed, fun cooking videos, which are all in Spanish.
Now the colourful cook averages more views than Gordon Ramsey and Martha Stewart, according to reporting from Goodable.
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