It's been a long week.

Mutterings continued.

For a working week that's only three days long, it's been a long 'un.

Went out for lunch today instead of eating it in my office. I had a very nice chicken parmigana at the cafe down the road. Lots of vegies and salad.

Dad's back in hospital and enjoying it this time. He just rang to say that he's been fussed over by nurses and doctors and a lady from The Village rang and chatted for about an hour. Since Mum died he's been missing all the attention.

"Tsunami conspiracy theorists come out
By Neil Western in Hong Kong
January 6, 2005

JUST 11 days after Asia's tsunami disaster, conspiracy theorists are out in force, accusing governments of a cover-up, blaming the military for testing top-secret eco-weapons or aliens trying to correct the Earth's "wobbly" rotation.

In bars and Internet chat rooms around the world questions are being asked, with knowing nods and winks, about who caused the undersea earthquake off Sumatra on December 26, and why governments did not act in the minutes and hours before tsunamis slammed into their shores, killing almost 150,000.

"There's a lot more to this. Why is the US sending a warship? Why is a senior commander who was in Iraq going there?" whispered designer Mark Tyler, drinking a pint of beer at a bar in Hong Kong's Wan Chai district." Mark Tyler is a dickhead.

"Depp Wants Role In Little Britain

Johnny Depp is desperate to play the part of a lay-dee in the BBC1 comedy sensation Little Britain, it was revealed.

The Hollywood hunk has reportedly asked the show's co-creators Matt Lucas and David Walliams if he can guest star." First The Fast Show, now Little Britain. The lad has taste.