I woke up this morning ...

(and doesn't that sound like the opening line of a really good blues song, but what with the Prozac and so on I haven't had the blues for ages) ... at about 07:00 to the sound of a fast car coming down the track at the side here and slamming to a halt. A quick peek out of the window revealed no car at all so, somewhat puzzled, I went back to bed.

A couple of minutes later I heard another car do the same thing. And so another quick peek, and once again no car. But one thing that I did notice, and which was probably the noise that I had heard, and that was that all of the snow had disappeared off the barn roof and fallen to the floor. That's the thing with tin roofs as I am finding out - snow doesn't stick to them and the slightest raise in temperature is enough to melt the adhesion.

And the temperature did rise too, but brought with it the rain. It's rained non-stop all day. A grey miserable depressing day indeed, but at least it was warmer than the last few days. Temperature reached 5°C today.

I finally woke up at about ... errr ... 12:00 and heaved myself out of bed. For most of the day I've been doing a little tidying up and reading a book while warming myself up with this little woodstove. It's Sunday and it's my day of rest.

And in other news, I see that one of the wikileaks documents states that Saudi Arabia is the major source of funds for Al-Qaida. This will come as quite a surprise to anyone except the regular readers of my pages, as I have been saying this for years. Bin Laden's family is the fourth-richest in the whole country and the family-controlled companies have their fingers in so many multi-national projects of all types.

In fact, a brief scan of these pages over the last few years has produced about a dozen things that I have been saying for years that have been subsequently been confirmed by either the USA or the UK. The world ought to be taking much more notice of me than it does, I reckon.