#7 It's Friday... isn't it?
Here are your SL* Headlines for Friday 27 March 2020
🐼🐧🐘Tune in live to Chester Zoo today!
Today in Chester, UK (my Mum’s hometown 💖) Chester Zoo has opened it’s virtual doors to the online world today, so we can all enjoy a whole day of animal antics, LIVE from our sofas!
Throughout the day, at the start of every hour (12:00-12:15 etc.) there is a live tour with the zookeepers. Bear with them if the video doesn’t load at first, as over 500,000 people are currently trying to watch online!
10:00 👉 Red pandas 🐼
11:00 👉 Rothschild's giraffes 🦒
12:00 👉 Asian elephants 🐘
13:00 👉 Butterflies 🦋
14:00 👉 Sun bears 🐻
14:30 👉 Sumatran tigers 🐅
15:00 👉 Humboldt penguins 🐧
16:00 👉 Aquarium* 🐠
To me, fair friend, you never can be old
As if the internet needed another reason to love Patrick Stewart, he has now gone and started reading a different Shakespeare’s Sonnet every single day on his Twitter.
You can find them here each day here — @SirPatStew
🍎 New York City is running out…
Here’s a nice change from the fear-mongering headlines of toilet rolls and hand sanitisers — New York City is running out of cats and dogs to find a foster home for!
Bloomberg reports that Muddy Paws Rescue and Best Friends Animal Society shelters have seen a 10-fold increase in owners coming forward in the past two weeks, and they are now all out of cats and dogs!
🇨🇦 Blame Canada
⚠️Warning ⚠️ The BBC is reporting a runaway trend of ‘care-mongering’ right across Canada — more than 35 Facebook groups are said to have been set up in the last 72 hours to serve communities in places including Ottawa, Halifax and Annapolis County in Nova Scotia, with more than 30,000 members between them. Watch out, this might catch on…
🇮🇳 🇩🇰Keep calm and adapt
We humans have an amazing knack of adapting, and while we all get to grips with a new normal, we can take inspiration from people around the world who are starting to find clever little ways to help us all keep calm and carry on.
Well done India and Denmark for leading the way for the rest of us
😄 And finally… some even Happier News
You might not have heard of The Happy News before — it’s a ‘new-newspaper’ that was set up by Emily Coxhead, from the UK, back in 2015 — she started it to bring a refreshing twist on what we typically know as 'news', reporting on positive changes and truly inspiring people.
Not only is the paper packed with positive stories from across the globe, it also has an entire section dedicated to our Everyday Heroes. And in recent weeks her subscriber numbers are going bananas!
More power to you Emily 💪
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(get well soon Boris)
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