Holly Gibbs
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first heard Jan 2025
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Global News Podcast · The Happy Pod: My best friend turned out to be my brother · 25 Jul 2026
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Another couple met, I think, over a jigsaw they were completing in the library.
Everybody's just very, it's a very welcoming place.
It's not a place where you have to be quiet.
And we're not quiet.
We have lots of things going on.
And we rely on each other to keep the library going.
Mandy and Adrian Strickland speaking to Nuala McGovern.
Let's end on the shores of Lake Haywood in the US state of Wisconsin, where thousands gather annually to watch the Lumberjack World Championships.
It's a competition that has seen a big increase in female participation since the Games began more than 60 years ago, as Rebecca Wood reports.
From chopping to log rolling, soaring to speed climbing, the Lumberjack World Championships attract competitors from all around the world who want to showcase their timber sports skills.
Among them is 24-year-old Karolina Urbanova.
She hails from the Czech Republic and has just broken not one but two world records at the event.
She's one of 40 women who joined 66 male competitors this year, a far cry from the female representation she saw when she first started out.
This was like, you know, something unique, like makes you a little bit different and you can meet lots of different people.
Karolina was introduced to the sport when a new neighbour moved into her small Czech village and she began to train weekly in a barn.
She quickly discovered she was fast and her new records prove it.
In the women's standing block category, where an axe is used to speed chop through an upright block of wood, she cut through 22.8 centimetres of white pine in under 20 seconds.
She also broke a record in the women's underhand chop, which involves splitting a log you're also standing on and comes with a much greater risk to your toes.
And while Carolina may be an anomaly in her home country, for another competitor, Meredith Ingritson, lumberjacking was always going to be a part of her life.
A Hayward native, she was introduced to the sport at the age of three and has just broken the world record for the women's boom run.
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