Time for my close up, Mr DeMille

Basil was a star of stage and screen yesterday when he made a glamorous appearance on TV via the mode of a scan. He wiggled his feet, waved his hands and even shook his tushy at us, indicating that he's a show off like his mummy. His feet looked very good - possibly the best feet in the family, and he had a very handsome profile. Mind you, face on he still looked like something that should jump out of John Hurt's shirt, but hey, he's getting there.

The scan pics we have are fairly clear, but they didn't re-scan into the computer very well, so all you get is some more blurry grey blobs that you have to pretend look enchanting. Such is the life of an aunty or uncle (whether real or honourary) so you may as well just learn to live with it. Start the oohing now...

The pic above is the 'face-on' one - yep, the alien one. The two bright white lines are his nose bones, the dark on either side of the lines are his eye sockets, and the big dark patch just above is his very clever wee brain. And that bigger grey blob/line coming down from the face, well that's his arm - can't you tell he's waving? (Okay, so it's not his arm, I made that bit up...)