A Manchester mum was left looking like she’d spent the day “in the arms of a sexy hunk” after two perfect hand prints were hilariously sunburned onto the back of her shoulders.
35-year-old Leanne Gresty had taken a day trip with her family to New Brighton Beach on the Wirral during last month’s scorching heatwave, and after applying some sun cream to her daughter, decided to dab some on her own shoulders too, before making an attempt at covering her back too by simply slapping her hands over each shoulder.
But as Leanne failed to actually rub the lotion in at all, only the specific points where her hands had touched on her back had any protection from the sun’s rays.
This left her with the perfect outline of two hands on her sunburned back.
Despite the healthcare assistant seeing the funny side of the “hilarious” situation, the striking marks have earned Leanne some shocked reactions from anyone who has seen her and she’s even been forced to explain what happened to baffled passers-by.
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Admittedly slightly embarrassed by the careless reality of the story, Leanne said she thought it was funnier to say that “some sexy hunk had his arms around her” while she was in the sun instead, rather than having applied the cream badly.
35-year-old Leanne Gresty had taken a day trip with her family to New Brighton Beach on the Wirral / Credit: Geograph (Jeff Buck)
Relaying the comical chain of events, Leanne said: “I’d put sun cream on my daughter and I don’t usually use it on myself [because I don’t often burn], but I still put a bit on my back and shoulders [but] didn’t ask anybody to put it on for me.
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“I didn’t even really feel the marks were there at first. It was my sister who said ‘oh, somebody’s put sand on your back’ [and] it’s at that point I thought ‘Oh god, that’s where I put my sun cream on’.
“I saw the humour in it though – I thought it was hilarious straight away.”
Leanne continued: “I could have said some sexy hunk had his arms around me the whole time. That would have been a better story [and] it would have been more exciting, but hopefully what people did think when they saw the marks was ‘Ooh, that’s an effective sun cream.'”
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It wasn’t a quick fix either, as Leanne admitted that “those hand marks were there for a couple of days afterwards.”
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Eurovision costumes, props and instruments are being auctioned off – and it’s a mad collection
Daisy Jackson
Items from this year’s Eurovision Song Contest are being sold at auction this week, from iconic costumes to enormous props.
It means that fans of the massive event – this year held in Liverpool – will be able to snap up a permanent piece of Eurovision history.
Have you ever looked around your living room and thought ‘You know what this place really needs? Those giant purple hands that Kalush Orchestra danced on this year’?
Or ‘I hate this jumper. I wish a had a green one with a face on like those Daði Freyr Eurovision dancers’?
Or even ‘A set of fluffy pink and yellow heart-shaped cushions would really brighten the place up’?
Well now there’s an auction you might be interested in, with bids opening from just £5.
The original props, costumes, and even instruments are on sale now, until 11 June.
Kalush Orchestra’s hands are in the Eurovision auctionThe Daði Freyr jumpersCredit: BBC
You could be turning the actual lectern thing that Graham Norton and Hannah Waddingham stood behind for the results show into a cool bar, or decorating your pad with the drums used in Sam Ryder’s powerful performance.
The top bids currently, just a few days after the auction started, stand at £500 – that’s for the presenter’s lectern and for the Daði Freyr jumpers.
Someone else has bid a whopping £250 for a set of fluffy cushions.
There are more than 60 items available to buy, including parts of the set, which were designed by Julio Himede and unveiled by the King and Queen.
The BBC has reported that 20% of the money raised will go to two different charities, split between ACC Liverpool Foundation and BBC Media Action, with the remaining 80% going back to BBC Studios to fund programmes and services.
Sally Mills, head of sustainability at BBC Studios said: “Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do, both on and off screen.
“We have a responsibility to operate with as minimal an impact on the environment as possible, and are always looking for innovative ways in which to further engage audiences with our content, and extend the life of our sets and costumes.
“What better way to do this than to give fans the opportunity to own a piece of Eurovision history?”
Derbyshire woman sent floods of cards for 108th birthday after care home appeal
Emily Sergeant
A woman from Derbyshire has received floods of cards after her care home put out an appeal to celebrate her landmark birthday.
Ada Daniel is hitting a milestone that not many get to reach today – her 108th birthday.
Born in the picturesque Derbyshire village of Ambergate all the way back in 1915, and living in the nearby town of Ripley with her beloved pet Greyhounds for most of her life, Mrs Daniel had a successful career working at Belper Mill for 27 years before her retirement.
And also before going on to become, what Oldest in Britain has confirmed, is currently the 65th oldest person in the UK.
Mrs Daniel has lived at Codnor Park Care Home since 2015 now, and it was the staff at this Derbyshire care home who decided to put out an appeal on social media asking that kind members of the public send birthday cards.
They hoped to get 108 cards to celebrate her 108th birthday.
This isn’t the first time staff at the care home have put out a public appeal for cards, as they did the same for Mrs Daniel’s 105th birthday during lockdown back in 2020, and received that number and more.
And according to the home, this time has proved just as successful as the last, the BBC reports.
“Ada hasn’t got a lot of family left,” explained Kelly Goucher, who is the activity coordinator at Ashmere Derbyshire – the company that runs the care home.
Ada Daniel is celebrating her 108th birthday today / Credit: Supplied | Ashmere Derbyshire
“She never had any children, so she doesn’t have any grandchildren, so we just wanted to get her as many cards as possible… [and] I woke up to 135 messages the following morning of people wanting to send cards.”
Ms Goucher described Mrs Daniel as “a character” at the care home, and when asked what her secret to a long life was one time, she said it was “to have dogs, not kids.”
The Manc -
4th August 2021 
