Our weekly round-up of outlandish and interesting information collected from the corners of the charity sector.

It's a bit a-llama-ing

Diary had got completely bored with naked charity calendars. What was originally quite a nice idea has mostly been taken over by students with hot bodies and time on their hands, producing pieces of work that Facebook thinks are pornographic.

But there’s always someone who’s willing to take it a bit further, and this time it’s veterinary students at the University of Sydney, who’ve ditched the white coats, as well as everything else, for a collection of pictures in which their modesty is protected only by some presumably quite surprised animals. Diary’s favourite picture involves three blokes standing there concealing their groins with the heads of live sheep.

No animals were harmed in the making of the calendar. It looks like a fair few were inconvenienced, though, and a couple were presumably quite miffed. The sheep looked a bit embarrassed. Sheepish, in fact.

It's for Greyhound Rescue, by the way.

Wait? What’s that? There’s another one?

Ok, so this isn’t actually a calendar featuring naked people posing with surprised animals. It’s a calendar featuring almost naked people posing with surprised animals. Specifically men with huge muscles covered in oil wearing smallish pants, holding dogs.

Mind you, the dogs are completely naked. So technically it is a naked calendar. And it's definitely for charity, this time the American organisation Louie's Legacy Animal Rescue.

Anyway, this is how not to do it, basically. The blokes look a bit distant, and the dogs look really quite miserable. Hangdog, you might say.

A bit kissed off

So it looks like a bit of a fail for Sainsbury’s, who ran into trouble after a security guard told a lesbian couple to stop kissing in one of their stores in Brighton.

A few days later... well, you can probably guess what happened. Hundreds of lesbian and gay students turned up in their stores and started snogging the face off one another in the fruit and veg aisle.

It all seems to have come as a bit of a surprise for the customers who’d just popped in for a packet of sugarsnap peas and some medium-sliced bread. Although one confessed the main problem was not the protestors, but the absence of semi-skimmed milk.

Sainsbury’s has already apologised, and promised a donation to the charity of the original couple’s choice.

Diary’s fancy was mostly tickled, though, by the protestors’ slogan: live well for lez.