Rabbit Thought of the Day

The news is once again full people being shot or stabbed; this country seems to have lost the plot. I am sure there are far more murders today then there was just a few years ago.

What has gone wrong in society that criminals resort to using weapons at the first chance they get? If you listen to the debates that the so called experts have on TV on weekly basis they haven’t a clue on how to solve the problem. A number say that we are to easy on people who are caught carrying knifes and they should be given a mandatory sentence, then they are those that say this will not work and we should go easy on them. In any case the jails are full, mainly of people who haven’t paid their council tax or parking fines, while the hardened criminals are released early to resume their life of crime.

I don’t think there is a solution apart from bringing back capital punishment, the death penalty, public flogging will it work maybe, maybe not, does any one have a view on capital punishment, lets have a debate.

We can’t carry on the way we are going!

We are getting towards the best time of day, home time. Less than hour to go and I’ll be heading thorough the tunnel and a short trip round the M25, it should take about 45 minutes to get home unless I hit any heavy traffic, and touch wood, its very quiet at the moment.

I have been back from Yorkshire a week now and I still haven’t sorted the pictures I took, am a little disappointed with myself, I normally download and them at the first opportunity. I can’t even use being busy a t work as an excuse, mainly because I am not overly busy at the moment, it’s just a steady plod at the moment.

The Corps of Royal Engineers can trace an unbroken history of service to the Crown going back to the Kings Engineers brought over by William the Conquer in 1066. A famous engineer of the time, Bishop Gundolph is claimed as the founding father of the Corps.

In 1414 Military Engineers were employed by the Board of Ordnance and held special responsibility for Works and Arsenals. On 26^th May 1716 an Officer Corps of Engineers was formed although Artificer Companies remained civilian establishments. In 1771 a Soldier Artificer Company was formed in Gibraltar, the first permanent engineer officer rank in the army. By Royal Warrant, in 1787 the Corps of Engineers was granted a Royal title, in the same year, six Companies of Royal Military Artificers with Officer from the Corps of Royal Engineers were formed.

In 1812 the Royal Military Artificers became the Royal Sappers and Miners, until 1856 when they were absorbed into the Corps of Royal Engineers.

By Royal Warrant of King William iv dated 10^th July 1833, the Corps of Royal Engineers were granted the mottos UBIQUE (Everywhere) and QUO FAS ET GLORIA DUCUPT (Where Right and Glory Lead).

I think it’s going to be a bit of an admin day, today. I need to sort out my filing system for emails; it’s a bit iffy to say the least. I don’t have any problems locating an email (I just use the search facility). But we are doing a number of projects and it will make it easier in the long run, if I sort it while I have the time.

Monday, morning, welcome to the beginning of a new week. I didn’t manage to get on yesterday even though I was at home (I must be slipping). It was just one of those things I wasn’t really busy, did a few odd jobs around the house and then read a book for the rest of the day, fell asleep on the sofa for a couple of hours and woke up with cat on my chest (bloody thing).

This week looks like it going to be a very quiet one, not a lot in the diary, once again I am waiting on a few suppliers to return their quotes, before I can progress on the project we are doing.