Nearly time to go home only about 45 minutes to go, the traffic doesn’t look to bad, it seems very quiet out there, so it should be a good trip home. Fingers crossed.

Not been a bad days work, I achieved what I set out to do, so am a happy little bunny at the moment. The weather is good and seems set to remain warm and sunny right until Sunday at least, great news for all of us.

The only down side is I have a little headache, I don’t think I have drunk enough water and am a little dehydrated will have to drink more if this hot weather is to remain.

Rabbit

Is the age of cheap air travel coming to an end? Budget airline Easyjet has revealed that for the first six months to 31 March the firm made a loss of £57.5m.

Although passenger numbers have increased by 15% to 18.9million and has revenue increased by 24% to £892m over the same period. It said that fuel costs from April to September are set to increase by at least £45m pounds.

The price of jet fuel has risen 35% over the last three months and is now 80% higher than last year, said the airline's chief executive Andy Harrison.

However, he said this would impact more on competitors than Easyjet.
"Nobody knows how much of this increase is driven by short-term financial speculation and how much is a longer term sustainable increase," he added.

"What is certain is that if these fuel increases are maintained many of our weaker competitors will disappear or downsize and Easyjet will emerge even stronger reflecting the combination of our business model, our cost advantage, our new fuel efficient fleet and the strength of our network."

I find his statement hard to understand, how long can a compnay remain viable when it makes a loss of £57million, last year it made a loss of £17.1 million doesn't seem good business to me.

It is said that BAA is set to increase costs at Stansted Airport although Easyjest and rivals Ryanair are fighting this in the courts. If the rise goes ahead then this will further hurt the cheap air travel industry.

Which for the environment maybe not be a bad thing.

According to a survey carried for Norwich Union Healthcare, a third of employees have admitted to being at work with a hangover and more than one in ten admitted being drunk at work.

Some occupations are worse than others with regard to drinking and the workplace. Forty-one per cent of people working in media and creative jobs said they had been to work while still drunk - four times the average.
The number who admitted to have been drunk at work was also high in the construction industry (24%), professional and business services (23%), and information technology (15%).

Don Shenker, from Alcohol Concern, said that with so many people drinking at harmful levels, it was not surprising that it was having an effect on the workplace. "After-work or lunchtime drinks are the norm for many and in some cases this is promoted by companies as a way to build teams or just as the way to do business."

The company who I work with now and the ones where I previously worked, have had a drugs and alcohol policy and did not tolerate the abuse of drugs or being drunk at work. They had random testing any body under the influence of either drugs or alcohol would be dismissed, this may seem harsh, but I worked at Stansted Airport and on the underground which by they very nature are considered life critical and you wouldn’t want drunks involved at those areas.

Rabbit

Looking out of the office window it looks another great start to the day and he’s me sat at my desk just wishing I could be somewhere else any would be better than working. There are quite a number country park not too far from here it would be great to spend the day there. Alas, it can’t be done, unfortunately I have to work I don’t want to take any holiday just yet, am afraid I will have to grin and bear it.

It seems very quiet this morning, I know its still relatively early but normally we have a few people in at this time. There are a few a few early birds who like to start early, we seem to get more done even though I do come on first thing.

Despite what women think, most men can multi task, I can read my emails while blogging on here, have already been thorough my inbox (only 13 this morning), marked those that need to be followed up (six on this occasion).

My old company sent me on time management course, very useful it was too, I now only work on my emails a few times a day, I leave my phone on silent and have set times for making phone calls and answering messages that way I can concentrate on doing the work that needs to be done and don’t keep getting distracted all the time