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I turned on the TV at about 345 this afternoon to watch the climax of the Tour of Catalunya, and it seemed to be all over. I've not been able to find any reference to it on the BBC Sport site, or indeed through Google. What happened? Was it like Wednesday, when the high stages had to be avoided because of avalanche risk?

Eurosport ?

Tuesday March 20
1445-1615 LIVE stage two on Eurosport 1

Wednesday March 21
1445-1615 LIVE stage three on Eurosport 1

Thursday March 22
1445-1615 LIVE stage four on Eurosport 1

Friday March 23
1445-1615LIVE stage five on Eurosport 1

Saturday March 24
1445-1615 LIVE stage six on Eurosport 1

Sunday March 25
1200-1330 LIVE stage seven on Eurosport 1

Thanks cerasus, but it wasn't being shown on Eurosport at 1545 today!

It's OK - the highlights are on at the moment.

Yes, 1900 hrs. to 1945 hrs

Hi, Rusty!
Grrrh! I have just lost all that I had typed!
Ok....I'll start again......
I have just been watching a recording of "Eggheads".
I did not do too well with the answers today.....somehow they all seemed to be geographically based......so I was scuppered before I even started!
Btw, a canape is a small pastry or biscuit with a savoury filling.
However, I also do not know what a parfait is....and I was too lazy to look it up!
It must be difficult to have to conduct a post -mortem on the beach?
Yet I'm presuming that is what has to be done?
It would surely be impossible to transport such a big whale elsewhere.
Why is it thought that the whale might explode?

Hello, Elle!
How is your computer behaving today?
The whale is over 12 metres long, so they reckon it is best to do the PM on the beach.
It would explode if the internal gases kept expanding and could not escape.
This has happened before.
I am not looking up parfait, too!
It was quite a tough puzzle for me.

Hi, Rusty!
The computer has been an absolute pain all day!
It keep shutting down and restarting itself.......but losing what I was doing at the time.
Hence my just having had to retype what I had written to you!
Roll on tomorrow.......and let us hope that my daughter's genius can solve the problem(s).
Now I cannot think in metres, but fortunately you mentioned earlier that the whale was about 40 ft!
That sounds massive! but then I am uncertain of the size of an average whale?!
I wonder has it eaten something nasty to cause its fatality?
Weren't there incidences a few years ago, when several whales had died from eating plastic?
I'm just remembering that there was something else I ought to have looked up in Chambers re the crossword.......
I always thought the abbreviation for cardigan was "cardi" ......yet the answer to the clue has it as "cardy"?

Hello, Elle!
I thought the same about "cardi"!
That is the way I spell it.
Chambers has "cardi, cardie, cardy."
Hopefully your daughter can get your machine running properly again.
Hope it is something simple! https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/new-pictures-show-huge-sperm-whale-washed-up-on-local-beach/
I think the whale got lost.
They are rare on the East Coast and usually found on the West Coast.
So maybe it had no food supply here?
I hope they bury it deep enough or the dogs will be digging it up!

Hi, Rusty!
Oh, poor whale! Those are terribly sad pictures in your local paper.
I found this article from January 2016, when another whale had been beached and had died.
I was researching to find out what happened to the dead bodies......
This is an interesting article.......
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35398249/what-happens-to-dead-whales-in-the-uk-after-theyre-beached
I hope it works!