Thousands of starfish wash up on beach

Tens of thousands of sea creatures have washed up dead on a beach in Kent, leaving the sand carpeted with them. They are believed to have ended up here due to the ‘beast from the east’ extreme weather snap.

Lara Maiklem, photographed the horrific scenes in Ramsgate after she took her five-year-old twins, Edie and Beau to try and help some of them by throwing them back in the sea.

“The beast killed quite a lot of creatures,” she said. “We save as many as we could but it was like the Armageddon. There were starfish as far as the eye could see, there were fish in there and sea urchins.”

Lara, who is currently working on a book documenting her mud-larking (like beachcombing, but on the riverbank), said the starfish stretched from Ramsgate to neighbouring beaches in Broadstairs.

Toddler locks iPhone for 47 years

The iPhone of a woman in will be locked for 47 years after her two-year-old repeatedly entered the wrong pass code to unlock the device.

The woman explained that she left the iPhone with her son so that he could watch educational videos.

The son then accidentally activated the iPhone’s security system which extends the amount of time the device is locked every time a wrong pass code is entered. Lu came home to discover that her phone was disabled and unusable for over 25 million minutes, or a total of 47 years.

Lu then brought the phone to an Apple store in Shanghai where a technician explained that she could either wait to unlock her phone or reboot the iPhone which would erase all of the phone’s data.

“I couldn’t really wait for 47 years and tell my grandchild it was your father’s mistake,” the mother said.

Is this the world’s tallest hat?

A Florida artist said he has submitted paperwork to Guinness World Records to have his 18-foot, 9-inch-tall hat recognised as the world’s tallest.

Self-described milliner — or hat maker — Odilon Ozare of Tampa said his massive top hat measures 18 feet and 9 inches in height, easily besting the currently Guinness World Record of nine feet and nine inches.

Ozare said he is waiting to hear back from Guinness after sending in documentation confirming that his is indeed the world’s tallest hat.

The artist said it took about seven weeks to make the hat, which features real peacock feathers as well as rhinestones, ribbons and bird decorations.

Ozare said the hat will soon go on display at Ella’s Folkart Cafe in Tampa.

The largest display of crochet sculptures

A crocheting group based in India has broken the world record for the largest display of crochet sculptures.

The top mark, certified by Guinness World Records and set by Mother India’s Crochet Queens, included 58,917 crochet sculptures under the theme “Go Green, Save the Earth.” The sculptures include a number of scenes showing humans and the planet throughout their history.

The organisation is primarily made up of women in India, but it also includes men, children and women throughout the world. Members sent crochet sculptures to the group’s headquarters in Chennai for the project.

Mother India’s Crochet Queens has also set the world records for the longest team-made crocheted scarf and the largest crochet blanket, a record that has since been broken.

Published in Dawn, Young World, March 24th, 2018