Folk searching for a backpacker missing in Northern Queensland [news.bbc.co.uk] have found a message on a tree that could be from her. She is still missing though after a few nights lost on the mountain. Hopefully they will find her soon.

This week I will be mostly updating on Saturday about midday and Sunday evening. Meanwhile my house is progressing at a crawl rate. Apparently the seller’s solicitor has got the deeds now but mine still hasn’t had a contract from them, so that’s not very good. That means nothing is moving until *next* week now. [...]

I just find this [news.bbc.co.uk] wierd. I can’t quite get my head around Iraq having to present evidence that it doesn’t have something. That would be like asking me to prove that I don’t have a ferrari, or something. I mean, I could show that I don’t have a ferrari in my driveway, but how [...]

Notably Sarah Payne’s killer Roy Whiting has been set a minimum 50 year jail term for his crime [news.bbc.co.uk], effectively meaning he can never leave prison. I can’t see the human rights lot going for that much really, especially once the home secretary loses the right to set terms and the balance of justice switches [...]