Life Goes On

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Welcome to Normal News, a blog for sharing small-scale, mundane stories that are often overlooked. With everything going on in the world and headlines dedicated to disasters, this blog aims to shine a light on the ordinary things still happening despite it all.

Feel free to submit stories!

I tag by subject, location, and source, but these are my general tags:

#normal news #nature news #food news #animal news #funny news #not news #negative normal

Blacklist #negative normal if you do not want to see stories on the sadder side e.g. a local business closing or a tree blowing down.

Stories will be a bit UK focused (at least at first) because that's where I'm from but this blog shares news from around the world.

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Canadian fox found with mouth full of stolen hot dogs | CNN

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Fire brigade called out to rescue Flying Scotsman in Kettering - BBC News

The service describes refilling the famous engine as a "very special operation".

Choo choo!

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Man, 90, gets floral clock cuckoo wish after 30 year wait - BBC News

The former teacher said he was delighted to finally see it after travelling to Edinburgh from Aberdeen.

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This is it, the best news story (from BBC news):

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Ok, so here is the croissant that started all this mess:

When asked about what kind of animal might it be, the woman said: "It's this, oh, what is it called... A lagun!"

The devil works fast, but The Krakow Animal Welfare Society works faster:

They already made a merchandise with an illustration of the lagun - they posted information about it on Facebook on Tuesday evening and by the Wednesday morning everything was already sold out.

My university professors are so delighted about this story that they are writing tons and tons of limericks, moskaliks and lepiejs (those two last genres are very popular, ridiculous and humorous types of short poems, in last decades popularized by Wisława Szymborska) and posting them on official Facebook pages of our university departments, and I am dying of laughter.

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Important update on the story: owners of cafés and bakeries in Kraków realized that this wonderful idiocy that took over the country could bring them profit and help animals, and started selling croissants labeled as laguns: i.e. Massolit Café & Bakery is sending 10% of income from selling laguns to the Krakow Animal Welfare Society. Thankfully laguns are selling like hotcakes and bakeries don't plan to stop making them, so the story that started and could quickly die as just another seasonal nonsense transformed into a tool for helping small, helpless, vulnerable creatures, far less dangerous than vicious lagun.

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Swan upping tradition carried out on River Thames - BBC News

The count - known as swan upping - is the royal census of birds on the River Thames.

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Developer submits plans to convert former care home

A developer has put forward plans to convert a former Bexhill care home into apartments.

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Swimming mole captured by Somerset photographer - BBC News

Moles are "competent swimmers", according to experts, but most people will never see them in the water

"Their powerful forearms are very well adapted for digging through soil but they can also do a mean breaststroke"

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Antique bread oven leaves Somerset restorer 'speechless' - BBC News

Olly Osborne spent months restoring the 19th Century oven for a Channel 4 show.

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Antique bread oven leaves Somerset restorer 'speechless' - BBC News

Olly Osborne spent months restoring the 19th Century oven for a Channel 4 show.

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Weymouth crocs sand artist 'wants to put joy into the world' - BBC News

The giant pair of crocs on Weymouth Beach are sand artist Mark Lewis' latest creation.

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A cockatoo broke our rocket. :(

Gonna need a tiny bit more context here bud

[batshit-auspol]

Thankyou to everyone for the helpful replies and context - so turns out a cockatoo broke our rocket.

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Article link:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/space/unlikely-suspect-caught-redhanded-over-failed-rocket-launch-in-bowen-qld/news-story/e489f5e9443d7209906d81e86a4498b0#

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'I built a tiny castle for mice in my garden' - BBC News

Christie Barnes hosts a family of mice and voles in an extravagant castle filled with food.

A house fit for a mouse 👑

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Wallace and Gromit's dedicated fans in South Korea - BBC News

The Aardman characters are hugely popular in the country, where Gromit is used to teach English

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New Agatha Christie statue in her home town Torquay, Devon

On 12 April 2025, Torquay's Harbourside celebrated its most famous daughter, Agatha Christie, with the unveiling of a magnificent statue in her honour.

The statue, which includes her favourite dog Peter, has been created by a local artist Elisabeth Hadley and is part of the town's new Harbourside Plaza.

Christie was born in Torquay in 1890 and remained on the English Riviera for much of her life, with many of her books being set locally or inspired by the surrounding Devon scenery.

Source: ITV clip, photo by Torbay Weekly

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Hull prepares for 50 giant rats in new art trail - BBC News

The art trail will pay tribute to Mick Ronson, who was from Hull and became David Bowie's guitarist.

🐀🐀🐀

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Man sets off on Nidderdale walk dressed as a curlew - BBC News

Matt Trevelyan made the Eurasian curlew costume out of polystyrene and bamboo.