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A bit of a fib, as it isn't anything to do with our whale, but the bottlenose whale which died in the Thames. I inherited a once-read Saturday Guardian and was drawn to the story about the London whale, which died while they were trying to take it out to sea. Once it was dead it became 'the Queen's whale' bracket alert (Where have I heard that before?) and the Natural History Museum got involved. The bones were removed and frozen and then sent to our friends at the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh to be cleaned. They had hired a 'bone cleaning facility'. Now what would you use one of those for during the infrequent times when there isn't a handy whale skeleton needing polishing? To clean a whale skeleton you need lots of warm water and Persil. Unilever are very happy, expect a new kind of soap advert soon. This whale was destined to be a research specimen, yielding lots of scientific DNA, to be compared with DNA from other bottle-nose whales. DNA is a bit of a mystery. It is too small to see and yet the police can find loads from one hair sample or a bit of slobber, but in the rarefied world of the whale scientist a whole skeleton is needed. However, Londoners have more collective clout than Collachs, and their whale is going on display, very briefly, at the Guardian's Newsroom. You can get free tickets to go and see it next week. So perhaps there is still hope for a public appearance by our whale.