Despite having previously thought I had, I'm afraid I don't have any pictures or videos of Luca atop his new "Peppa Pig" tricycle. However, I'll rectify this is the next day or so, so you too can witness the wanton carnage and destruction he is causing to our house.

You'll have to make do with the alternate video featured above, showing Luca watch himself on the computer. He is fully aware that he's watching himself, yet how much he is able to process is, as yet, difficult to gauge. I guess as his communication improves he'll let us know....

A more normal working day today after the curious calm of holiday Monday, which encompassed me trying to organise the few staff who were in (badly) while also trying to catch up with a personal backlog (again, failing badly). So, a day like any other then! The added bonus was the torrential rain while soaked me through both on my way to and from work. A pleasure.

After catching a brief glimpse of an alternately whiney and affectionate Luca before his bed tonight, I cooked tea for Carole and I (a minor disaster, the "golden" run is over) before watching the Champions League Semi Final - which after the crushing victory for Utd happily completed a haphazard day.

Finally, Craigs blog, the 10ft basking shark - fantastic, I bet that cured any constipation for a while....

**Conspiracy Theory Of The Day - Kentucky Fried Chicken is owned by the KKK - Legend has it that Colonel Sanders wrote a will that went into effect after his death in 1980, and that one of the clauses in this document was a demand that 10% of KFC’s profits be turned over to the Ku Klux Klan. Others go right to the source, and claim that the current owners of KFC are a secret front for the Klan itself, and so that (largely defunct) racist organization gets a majority share of the profits. There have also been rumours that certain ingredients in the famous KFC recipe are designed to make black men impotent....**