Hi there, Pals! How are you? I’ve heard so much bad news over the past one and a half weeks that I think it’ll rain inside my head for a while. I haven’t had a holiday without having to worry about someone or something for at least four years now.

I have just finished working out. It was another long routine, this time with Patrice, and I have no further plans for the day. I went for a short bike ride yesterday afternoon because the weather was glorious (windy, hardly any sun, and about 23 °C) and I wanted to see my favourite, smelly little lake. It was a nice surprise because it wasn’t smelly, the water level was quite high, and there were some cute ducks. Four ducklings, almost as big as their Mum, but they weren’t rebellious teenagers—only one of them, who seemed to be really interested in my bike and walked quite close to me. They all ran when they spotted a group of people approaching us, so from a distance I might have looked like a duck whisperer…

Anyway, let’s move on to our fact-finder fragment. Have you ever wondered why we yawn? I mean, we know when we yawn – when we’re tired or bored – but what’s the purpose of yawning? Originally, scientists thought yawning was a way to get more oxygen to the brain and therefore make the body less tired, but this does not seem to be the case. A more recent study suggests that yawning is a way to cool off the brain. The yawn circulates cooler blood up to the brain to help lower the temperature in the skull. This is still being researched, though, and many scientists disagree with the idea. Other scientists think it might be a form of communication. When someone yawns, everybody around them starts yawning too. Are you yawning now, Pals?

All right, that’s it from me today, have an easy day, and eat some blueberries.