Best of HELLO! royal coverage today
Prince Edward leaves behind royal home with wife Sophie for special 'honour' and more...
Hi Royal Clubbers, it’s Iona here.
Firstly, here’s the best of the royal coverage over on HELLO! today.
Prince Edward leaves behind royal home with wife Sophie for special ‘honour’
King Charles’ visitors wary after ‘no cure’ illness hits Sandringham
Prince William and Princess Catherine prepare for big trip to America - report
Princess Catherine’s new ‘Barbie’ makeover is quiet nod to her health
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s ‘unlucky’ Montecito mansion that can’t be sold
And the winner is…
Yesterday, I asked if you liked Zara Tindall’s festive suit, and 71 per cent of you said yes!
Royal Clubbers agreed in the comments, with Linda writing: “Love it, and the colour is perfect.”
Mandy wrote: “I think Zara looked great in the velvet suit, but I think it’s something more suited to Christmas time than the rest of the year.”
I definitely think the burgundy colour and the velvet texture are two Christmas outfit staples, but yes, she did pull it off very well!
Poll of the day
As you will have read, Princess Catherine’s make-up look has had a bit of a re-vamp, with the royal noticeably wearing more pink lipstick.
While Catherine always looks radiant, adding a pop of pink lipstick to your make-up look certainly adds extra radiance.
I usually opt for darker-toned lipstick at this time of year, so I would not say pink is my go-to colour, but it certainly looks great on Catherine.
Picture of the day
Showing off his pool skills, Prince William played a game alongside Scott Jenkinson, the founder of Youth Shedz. This occurred during his visit to the headquarters of the youth initiative in Mochdre, North Wales.
I have to say I am a shocking pool player, but I will happily watch others play. Do any of you play or used to play pool? It is such a British pub classic!
Tuesday’s puzzles
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Whatever Princess Catherine wears she always looks beautiful and stylish. She's a credit.
One is that almost everyone will indeed acknowledge him as a “good worker,” and so he will receive the praise and confidence that comes from being recognized as such. The second advantage is that he will likely be so submerged in his work that there will be no time the think about his work — a fact that will free him from the emotional pain of self-awareness that would result from considering how pointless, destructive and even inhuman is his work and indeed a very large portion of his life.
Thus the ethics of the average worker vis a vis his job seems to boil down to this: stay busy, stay unaware, stay hired.
Instead of this all-around sorry way of thinking about work, I propose the following principles as the first steps toward a new and improved ethics of work:
A good worker works for some worthy purpose. The more worthy the purpose, the better the work. Good work, on balance, makes the world a better place.
A good worker does not work at the expense of himself or others. Work, whatever work it might be, should be in service of life, both one’s own life and the lives of others. Work that does damage to the life it is supposed to serve is bad work. Good work, then, is a net positive for everyone involved.
A good worker does enough work, neither too much nor too little. Making widgets can be good, relative to the need for widgets. Making too many widgets is bad — a waste of time and resources, and perhaps harmful in other ways as well.
A good worker perseveres through challenges in order to finish the job — or a good worker quits the job when his judgment tells him it is time to quit. Both quitting and persevering require integrity and the courage necessary to sustain it. Good work is work that is loyal to the value of the job and which quits the job when it strays from that value.
A good worker makes the job into a form of play. Mere work is something we do to achieve an extrinsic purpose; the meaning and value of mere work is entirely relative to that purpose. Work in itself is therefore of no intrinsic value. Play, however, is something that is done for its own sake. It is often possible to make one’s work into a form of play and it is always desirable to do so. All other things being equal, work that involves play, or which is itself a form of play, is better than work that is done only for the sake of some extrinsic goal.
Above all, a good worker is aware, actively reflecting on the nature of his work and seeing it as an important component of his life, an expression of his values, a cause to which he is morally, politically, and spiritually dedicated — or not, in which case he sets out in search of better work.