Happy Friday dear readers and happy Barbenheimer Day to all who celebrate.
The dual release of the contrasting Barbie and Oppenheimer movies this weekend is expected to make the box office around $260m.
Charity shops have joined in on the excitement, with Glasgow's British Heart Foundation shop featuring a bright pink Barbie window display.
However, Diary has not seen any charity shop windows celebrating Oppenheimer’s nuclear weapons theme, which would have been slightly more problematic.
Diary doesn't know about you, but this Barbie is ready for the weekend.
Flatulence at the National Trust
But first, an important topic. This week, a National Trust director spoke out about someone's anonymous confession that they use their National Trust membership to access large stately homes at their most peaceful, so they can loudly fart in them.
“The acoustics are tremendous,” the anonymous source said.
Celia Richardson, the charity’s director of communications, responded: “I don’t think this is what our founders had in mind.”
This truly places the charity’s slogan “for everyone, forever” in a new light.
Did the National Trust fan buy a membership just for this purpose, one wonders? Diary has wandered into many an antiquated room and found them rather musty smelling. Is this individual to blame? Is this an epidemic? So many questions.
One would assume that the trust’s founders in the Victorian era would never take part in such a crude act.
However, farting contests did apparently exist at the time, where Victorians would scoff tons of cabbage and flatulate at unlucky judges.
Suppose there was nothing on the telly, to be fair to them.
Win a giant panda! (Kinda, not really)
It is your last chance to enter Edinburgh Zoo's competition to win a unique panda experience.
Until 31 July, people who donate £5 will be in with the chance of being a panda keeper for the day.
Unlike Diary presumed/hoped, this does not mean that you can take said panda home with you.
All funds will go to the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), with over £14,000 raised so far for the conservation charity.
Diary begs that if you, dearest reader, win the prize that you take pity and bring Diary along.
This would mean breaking Diary's anonymity (sorry Editor), but this is a sacrifice the columnist is willing to make for anything that involves seeing cute animals.
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