Rabbit Thought of the Day

Standby for a summer of sport, we already have had a few days of Euro 2008, and this is set to continue until the 29-Jun. Yesterday saw the start of Artois Tennis Championship at Queens Club, which means only one thing it will soon be the start of Wimbledon. Two weeks of tennis interrupted every hour by heavy rain and British disappointment as out players are all knocked in the first week. Unless the mouthy Jock (aka Andrew Murray) surprises us all and manages to do well.

It’s only 59 days to the start of the Olympics, and we still have the cricket to suffer, England v South Africa, who will probably prove a more difficult team to beat than New Zealand.  

In between all that we have the golf, the British Open, and don’t forget the Rugby tour of New Zealand who will definitely put a better showing in the rugby than their team in the cricket.

So all in all, great for the sports fans, not so good for everybody else, to balance out the TV coverage, C4 have started Big Brother, so those with limited imagination do have something to watch, that’s as well has the usual crap (sorry I mean Eastenders and Coronation Street).

Have just tried the new design wizard, can’t see any difference, so I am using the old adage ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it’. So thanks very much, am going to stay with the same design, although I may add a few pictures when I have a spare few minutes.

Have just activated the design wizard, haven’t got a clue what it will do, knowing my luck everything I have posted and all the pictures I have down loaded will disappear into cyber space.

Watch this space and well see that this great new technology will do!

This was taken from news article on the BBC’s website

A former Royal Navy Lieutenant has been reunited with the watch he lost during the Second World War. Teddy Bacon, 89, of Tarvin, Cheshire, lost his Swiss Bulova watch while throwing a line from HMS Repulse to Gibraltar Harbour in 1941. He left his name and address with the harbour master but expected to never see it again.

Mr Bacon said he was "amazed" when he received a parcel with a Gibraltar postcode and his watch inside. "I told my wife, you unpack it, and you will find out it isn't a present for you," he said. "Then out came my watch complete with everything, exactly as it had been when it disappeared.

"It's exciting to have an old friend, I won't lose it again."

The watch, which he was told had been underwater in mud, is still working and telling the time perfectly.

Mr Bacon added: "Remembering what my father said, nothing is lost until you are certain it's left the planet.

"Well it didn't leave the planet, it's back."

I have now processed the pictures I took at Rainham Marshes on Saturday, so hopefully I will be able to upload and post a few on here tonight, I would have done it earlier but I haven’t saved them to me external hard drive and they are still on the computer at home.

I will resolve that problem tonight; I got some great shots of some quiet rare birds, well maybe not rare but uncommon, might be a better term. Still it was great day, it the weather is nice I might head there again this week, it only a few miles from where I am sitting so I could have a quick lunch time visit.  

A news article on radio 4 had me in fits of laugher, the police stopped a Ford Mondeo, on the back seat and in the boot were 70 chickens, the occupants were chicken rustling.

The question must be, how the hell do you get 70 chickens in the back of a car?

The number of British troops killed in Afghanistan has reached 100 since operations began in 2001. Apart from the 100 dead, the thousands injured and maimed and the billions spent little has been achieved, I fully support our troops but isn’t it time to re-assess what the aims are in leaving our troops in what appears to be a no win situation.

The 3 soldiers who died all from the Parachute Regiment were all young men, the oldest was only 22, how many more must die or be crippled for life before this Government realises that this is an hopeless situation and we must bring our troops home as soon as possible.

There must be a diplomatic solution that can be found, but no one seems to trying. This is supposed to be a peace mission, has anybody told the families of the soldiers killed that.

After my day off yesterday I am now back at my desk, It was a glorious day yesterday, after our visit to the hospital yesterday, we went down the seafront and had our selves an ice cream (for those who  know Southend it was a Rossi’s) very nice it was too.

It was very busy on the seafront and I am sure it will be the same again today. Have you ever wondered when having a day where all the people come from, when walking the seafront or thorough the town on my days off, I am amazed at the number of people of around. I always wonder if these people are all on holiday, or are they sick, or are they unemployed. There just seem to be thousands of people just wandering around. What do they all do?