Greetings charitable sector and welcome to another week of people ceaselessly complaining about the weather. This is Britain, after all.
With rain seeming to patter down every day this week, it might be best to stay in this Friday with a takeaway.
Not fish and chips, though, PETA would say (though PETA may say not to eat lots of things, to be fair).
In some recent comms, the animal rights charity compared eating fish to eating cats, with a poster that shifts from a fishmonger holding a fish to a dead-looking cat.
Note: Diary says dead-looking in the hopes that the kitty was actually just sleeping, albeit in a very uncomfortable-looking position.
This is not the sort of poster one would like to look upon after getting your fish and chips – which of course is the point – but it hasn’t seemed to deter some onlookers.
“I'm reminded I'm having fish and chips today,” one told the BBC.
Diary could not help but pity the model in the image, who may be unaware she is being framed as the crazed catmongerer of Cleethorpes.
World Penguin Day
It was World Penguin Day this week and charities had fun posting suggestions for how people should celebrate.
RSPB shared lots of facts about the cute birds alongside photos of them sliding down hills. Given penguins can't fly, and Diary is nothing if not a rigorous fact-checker, Diary did Google 'are penguins birds' before writing that last bit (the flightless birds still count by the way).
The charity ended its thread with an image of three penguins waddling in a row, which looked eerily similar to what the Civil Society editorial team look like on the way to the pub.
Find out more about our work protecting penguins here: https://t.co/57fERR6eba
— RSPB (@Natures_Voice) April 25, 2023
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The RNLI shared a tweet telling its supporters to purchase one of its RNLI penguins in a rain hat froim its online shop.
Diary was tempted by said penguin (or as Benedict Cumberbatch would say: “pengwing”), but at the price of £25 had to waddle away birdless. Fish and chips it is then.
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