For those of you who read The Times you may have read the article gracing page 11. This sentence is not meant to sound patronising, I don't read newspapers, except for Redbrick, and I don't even read much of that. It's worrying that as a university finalist I get all my news from Radio 1's Newsbeat. The article I am referring to is about the views of a palaeontologist* who reckons he's 'solved' the riddle of Loch Ness:

"According to Neil Clark, currator of palaeontology at Glasgow University's Hunterian Museum, unexplained sightings of a monster in the loch could, in fact, be of an elephant."

What?! I hear you ask. Exactly. Apparently the image from 1972 of the hump and what looks like a neck is actually a circus elephant.

"'When the elephants were allowed to swim in the loch, only the trunk and two humps could be seen: the first hump being the top of he head and the second being the back of the animal. The resulting impression would be of an animal with a long neck and two humps - perhaps more if there were more than one elephant in the water.'"

Now I'm sorry I know there haven't been many sightings of Nessie but that is not an elephant. I will be the first to admit that Nessie does not look like the picture on a t-shirt I got on a trip to Scotland when I was little of a green Loch Ness monster wearing a tartan hat and scarf but the thing in the loch, if it exists, it is not an elephant.
So given my opening sentences, you're probably wondering if I just bought The Times and randomly found the article? Well, erm, no, to put it simply. Edith was discussing it on Radio 1 so I went and bought the paper to read the article. Then I text in to Radio 1 HQ agreeing with Edith that it is not an elephant and thus I have now upped -uped or upped? - my Radio 1 tally since I got a mention, which almost makes up for the fact that GTV missed Edith at the MedBall on Saturday since we didn't know about it. Today has been a day of debate. This morning on the Breakfast Show there was the great star debate, my opinions on one part of which I am refraining from blogging in case I upset people but the other part...only a handful of stars that you see in the sky have burnt out and no longer exist, most of the rest do. That is a fact.


*Yes, what Ross does in Friends. Though I thought it was associated with dinosaurs; am I being naive or is Nessie a dinosaur?