Salutations, dear readers. Another week, another monarch, ay?
But we all know the real crown will go to the winner of Eurovision this weekend.
Diary will be enjoying the landmark event slumped in front of the sofa, somewhat inebriated, and surrounded by empty crisp packets. Did Charles celebrate his coronation the same way? One would think not as his crown could fall off.
There is actually a charity called Eurovision Mission to Europe, which seems to have nothing to do with the event. Presumably, it has had trouble with people contacting it trying to vote for a singing banana before.
Coronation chaos
Some 6.5 million people participated in the Big Help Out last week, organisers claimed.
A few of those people were the Prince and Princess of Wales and their children, who volunteered with the Scouts. Prince Louis seemed to get stuck in and was filmed shovelling sand into a wheelbarrow and tipping it over with the help of his mother Kate.
An awful lot of people seem to be standing around watching who could have been useful shovellers too. After seemingly being the only people doing anything (which Diary worries looks a bit like child labour), Prince Louis and Princess Charlotte are rewarded with toasted marshmallows and s’mores.
Prince Louis eats one marshmallow, grabs another out of his mother's hand and then sporadically spins into his s’more-eating sister. Job done.
Children receive 60,000 pens (yay?)
This week, a Lincolnshire-based charity called BRIC organised an event where children wrote stories about kindness, with a select few set to be shared on its website.
The charity’s press release reads that the event was so popular BRIC ran out of resources, so they sent out an appeal asking for help.
In answer to their pleas, another charity generously “gifted” 60,000 pens to BRIC, which Diary thinks is a bit excessive, though very kind indeed.
Diary would probably consider this one of the most fearsome gifts ever. The thought of finding a home for 60,000 pens fills this columnist with terror, and a weekly column is certainly enough writing for one person thank you very much. Undoubtedly, many pens would have to be hidden under the bed, behind the sofa, thrown at passersby, or hidden in the desks of colleagues.
Not only that, but does this mean the children got through 60,000 pens in the first place? That’s an awful lot of writing.
On second thoughts, Diary can remember throwing pens on the school roof and generally gnawing them into oblivion during their school days. But it might take them a while to get through all of those – which one supposes is the point.
Baby penguin
In other, furrier news, an endangered penguin chick has hatched at Edinburgh Zoo, part of the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland.
The rockhopper penguin chick is currently a black fluffball but will grow up to have striking yellow eyebrows – Cara Delevingne better watch out.
Michael Livingstone, senior keeper at Edinburgh Zoo, said: “The first 30 days are critical for their development, so we will be keeping a close eye on the youngster at this sensitive time.”
This discovery led Diary to find Edinburgh Zoo’s live penguin cam, which is adorable and not Big Brother-like at all. There is also a panda cam, giraffe cam and more so you can see their cuteness on a daily basis.
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