A group of ex-oil men calling themselves the Early Peakers argue that oil reserves are nowhere near as big as the industry has been claiming. The group is predicting several more Shell-style announcements on overstated oil reserves in 2006. But at least George Dubya Bush has finally come out of denial and admitted in his State of The Union address to the US Congress that America was addicted to oil and had to get into rehab fast.

Nothing was further from my mind as I aroused myself sluggishly from my slumbers at eight o’clock. By the time I had breakfasted and showered I was almost ready to face Monday. I hate Mondays. At least there was no weblog clamouring for my attention. But old habits die hard. So I took a few minutes to cut my Saturday weblog down to size by removing all mention of the Welsh rugby debacle.

Monday ran true to form. Disasters come in threes. First I put diesel in my petrol tank. I just about got away with it as I realised after a litre so was able to dilute it with twenty five litres of green 97 octane petrol. Next I left my car keys in the Internet Cafe. Finally I took the car through the car wash and lost my daughter’s radio aerial. I also got it in the neck from the fellow behind me for nicking his wash. I thought car washes were like washing machines and gave you a pre-wash as well as a main wash. Not true. The car was washed twice.

Reform of the United Nations is a slow process so it will be years before Germany, Brazil, India or Japan will get even close to permanent power. But at least Kofi Annan is calling for the dispersal of international power and taking issue with the UN Security Council’s five-nation power centre. ‘Do not underestimate the slow erosion of the UN's authority and legitimacy that stems from the perception that it has a very narrow power base with just five countries calling the shots,’ he pleaded last week in a speech in London.

I have never understood why the American Social Justice Movement doesn’t get each of America’s fifty states to join the UN General Assembly...and take turns sitting in the Security Council’s permanent US seat. Job sharing. And since what’s good for the goose is good for the gander China’s provinces could follow suit...with the Europeans in their wake. How about it Frau Merkel? Start by suggesting that the UN Security Council apologise to Germany for the fire bombing of Dresden by four of its five permanent members. As holocausts go this must rank as the fastest massacre in European history...135 000 poeple killed in one night.

Will my inbox ever look like my sent messages folder...with not a junk mail in sight? Here is today’s sent message to Toni Pinschof: ‘John has written off to Jon Cracknell for some Goldsmith money so the scene is set for the Kergroaz-Vraz funding application. My gamble is that the Kergroaz-Vraz Institute (food & soil) will make more sense as part of a bigger plan to set up the Middlebury Institute in Vermont (secession), the Edward Goldsmith Institute in New Zealand (human scale ecology) and the Dele Oguntimoju Institute in Nigeria (cantonisation). One of perhaps a dozen founding members of the Resurgence Group of Human Scale Institutes.

For five minutes this afternoon Steve Wright had Zac Goldsmith as his guest on BBC Radio Two. Listen to what he had to say. It’s a good way to find your way around the BBC website. Zac was on at the start of the last half hour. You can download and listen to anything broadcast in the past week. Zac remarked that he hated Question Time. ‘It’s a bluffers’ programme really,’ he said. ‘How can anyone be an expert on everything? Most people in the audience knew more about education than I do’. What a refeshing change to hear ‘I don’t know!’

I see David Cameron is casting his pretty blue eyes upon the Royal Prerogative. My article on the subject is just outside the Top Ten Google returns at Number 11. But that’s pretty damn good out of 163 000. Someone in Google must like me. Zac and Charles for King! Job sharing. Toni and I will look after the Treasury. More Job Sharing. A Mint in Every Market Town. Convert Whitehall into a Hostel for the Homeless.

I have an unerring knack of popping up in the wrong place. One of these days it will cost me dear when the stupidity services put two and two together to make thirteen. I was at Purton House over the weekend picking up Tempe and chatting to Mrs Barker. Tempe has two tags on her collar...one with Douglas Barker’s phone number and the other John Papworth’s. A day later and I would have bumped into the bailiffs busily removing a thousand pounds of organic produce. Douglas Barker is withholding some income tax as a protest against the Iraq War. They’re going for him. Today he hit the national news. At least it will take the pressure off John Papworth. Now the Purton branch of the British Legion will have to divide their fire.

On a scale of one to ten where ten is the good news the Peugeot 106 exhaust weighed in at around a four today. The head gasket is fine but the exhaust pipe has snapped a few inches from the engine’s exhaust manifold. Welding it back together would have been one possibility. But I am far from home without the right contacts. So tomorrow the garage in Cardigan will replace the entire five-metre stretch. Another £ 72 down the tube.