Monday Holiday :)

Hey all - death toll from the Sumatra quake is up to 11,500, including nine that were drowned on Somalia's coastline. Still far too early for the areas where communication networks have been completely wiped out to be reporting in - still no reports from western Aceh, where the quake would have done as much damage as the tsunami...



'"For all the huge advances in the control of our lives through science and technology, an earthquake on this scale is truly humbling as well as profoundly tragic," said British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw.'



Best statement from a British politician in MONTHS as the EU announces $4m in emergency aid.



Hmm, the post Christmas we have to get rid of the leftovers thing - had cheesecake for breakfast this morning LOL. Only two chickens, a pig and two salads to go - and that's what I KNOW is in the fridge LOL.



Hmm, another American elite athlete dead young - Reggie White, one of the top NFL defensemen of the last decade, dead at 43. Mind goes back to Florence Griffith Joyner, when Ben Johnson and the East Germans and Sovs were being accused (rightly) of every drug abuse under the sun, Flo Jo kept under the radar - sureeeee they are natural muscles Florence. So the latest saga with Marion Jones and Barry Bonds has 'form' in the States. Of course any unexpected death is tragic, just as the at least eleven thousand in South Asia is, but the cause of death is unexplained, and just connecting a couple of dots in the paragraph...



Cricket has started - Pakistan 6 for 318 after the first day's play. Also in the cricket world, New Zealand beat Sri Lanka easily in the Boxing Day one dayer (doesn't have quite the same ring as Boxing Day Test), and Bangladesh beat India woohoo. Now if only they could avoid innings defeat in the test matches LOL.



Pauly