Rabbit Thought of the Day

Am a little miffed at the moment, I wrote a blog about hour ago, came back to view it and found its not been posted.

I can remember what it was about but not exactly what I said. So here goes once again.

A man in Whitehaven, Cumbria has been fined and given a criminal record for over filling his wheelie bin by 4”. Council officers took photographs of Gareth Corkhill wheelie bin and issued him a £110 fixed penalty noticed. When he refused to pay Copeland Council took him to court where he was found guilty of overfilling a waste receptacle, and magistrates added another £115 to his fine.

Copeland Council has defended its actions and pledged to continue to take action against overfilled wheelie bins. The council have just switched from weekly rubbish collection to fortnightly collections and the public have complained that the wheelie bins are no longer big enough.

You would have thought that the council would have realised this, and issued warning notices in the first instance rather than taking people to court. How long will it be before someone is sent to prison when they refuse to pay the fine? What happens when somebody else puts rubbish in your bin when you have left it out?

Bureaucracy gone mad, and power crazy officials no wonder this country is going to pot!

It’s no where near lunch time yet and I have already eaten part of my lunch, an apple and two plums. Don’t know why am so hungry am not usually like this, I did have breakfast (consisting of cereal and a coffee). Still not long till lunch then I dig into my roast beef sandwich.

It seems to be dragging this morning, I have had my head down working steadily, and then I glanced at my watch expecting to be around 12, and was surprised to find it was only 11:00.

It seems the weather is finally starting to improve, its forecast increasing temperatures and more sunshine, hopefully summer has finally arrived. More time to get out with my camera and take some great shots, hopefully.

Rabbit

The training is over and I am now fully trained on the company’s financial package. All I have top do now is to put what I have been caught into practice unfortunately it will probably be a little while before I actually use it in on any project as we are not due to start on site until later this year, so by then I will have forgotten all that I was taught.

It was a very useful day and despite what I said above it not really that difficult and the guides are really very good, so I should be ok. I didn’t get away as early as I would have liked, but I still got away at the normal so it wasn’t too bad.

It now back to my normal work, reading specifications and checking that they and the drawing conform to all statutory regulations and the actual design is build able.

A number of South American leaders have issued warnings over the production of biofuel. Speaking in the New York the Bolivian President Evo Morales said that the production of biofuel will harm the world poorest people.

Opening a UN forum on the global impact of climate change on indigenous peoples, Mr Morales said that capitalism should be scrapped if the planet is to be saved from the effects of climate change. "If we want to save our planet earth, we have a duty to put an end to the capitalist system," he said.

Campaigners say providing a renewable alternative for conventional fuels can help stop global warming. But as food prices climb worldwide, there is a fear that development of biofuels could reduce the production of badly-needed basic foodstuffs. The EU has come under criticism for its target of getting 10% of road transport fuel from crops by 2020.

Meanwhile UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is hosting a meeting to discuss European policy encouraging biofuels. Ahead of the meeting, Mr Brown said that the UK should be "more selective in our support" for biofuels.