An arts company has said sorry after a 100-foot poem on Welsh mountain range Snowdonia accidentally ended up looking like graffiti.
Verses penned by national poet Gillian Clarke were written in clay pigment on Gladstone Rock as part of an arts project celebrating the region’s sheep farmers.
But the words, which were supposed to wash off in the rain, ended up being ‘baked’ on to the rockface following a hot and dry September.
Bosses of the National Mountain Centre in Snowdonia hoped the poem would not cause permanent damage, and the National Theatre of Wales has promised to puts things back the way they were.
Nursery ‘sweets’ are a nasty shock
A four-year-old girl took hundreds of packets of heroin to her nursery and began passing it out, thinking it was sweets, Delaware State Police said.
Officers said several children went to hospital as a precaution, but none of the packets was opened and all the youngsters were released after being examined.
The girl’s mother, 30-year-old Ashley Tull of Selbyville, was charged with child endangerment and maintaining a drug property.
Police say the girl unknowingly took the heroin to the centre when she switched rucksacks to one that contained nearly 250 packets of heroin labelled Slam.
Pope and prelates given a sex talk
Pope Francis, cardinals and bishops from around the world have had an unexpected lecture on the joys of sex from a Catholic couple brought in to talk about what makes a marriage last.
Ron and Mavis Pirola, parents of four from Sydney, Australia, told a Vatican gathering of 200 prelates that great marriage boils down to great sex. The couple were among half a dozen to address the closed meeting.
They told the prelates: “The little things we did for each other, the telephone calls and love notes, the way we planned our day around each other and the things we shared were outward expressions of our longing to be intimate with each other.”
The audience of celibate men seemed slightly taken aback.
Patrons can’t ‘refuse’ these meals
A new cafe serving meals made from food rescued from the bin has opened in Bristol, UK.
Customers at Skipchen are not charged a set price for items on the menu but asked instead to “pay as you feel”.
Every scrap of food served at the 20-seat venue was due to be wasted, having reached its sell-by date or been surplus to the needs of restaurants and organisations.
A group of volunteers staff the not-for-profit cafe, in Stokes Croft, overseeing a menu which changes daily depending on what has been obtained. Skipchen, which opened on Monday, has already served meals including lobster, gorgonzola omelettes and Mediterranean platters.