Rabbit Thought of the Day

I have just copied this from the BBC website:

A cat survived 18 hours clinging to high voltage power lines in a Wiltshire village. Engineers from Southern Electric, helped by fire fighters and RSPCA officers, finally managed to rescue Freddy who was spotted 25ft (7m) up.

A passer-by had raised the alarm after Freddy was seen close to a live wire.

His owner Emma Evans, 33, said: "It's not unusual for Freddy to wander off for the night so I hadn't been too concerned about him."

When rescuers finally brought him down, the cat ran home with a note from the RSPCA attached to his collar. It read: "Your cat's had an adventure. Can you please contact us to let us know he got home safely?" Ms Evans then contacted the RSPCA to let staff know he was safe and well.

A new meaning of a 4x4 off roader,  police are investigating a crash in which a £30,000 SUV ended up parked on top of two other cars, one of them a Porsche sports car worth up to £45,000.

It happened in the car park of the Co-Op supermarket on Belfast's Lisburn Road. The vehicle, an automatic Lexus, drove over the Porsche and a Toyota Celica, which were parked directly in front. The Porsche Boxster was damaged on its wing and bonnet, while the Toyota Celica was crushed.

One person, believed to be the Porsche driver, was taken to hospital.

His injuries are not believed to be life-threatening. The BBC spoke to the driver of the Toyota, but he said he was "not in the mood to give interviews".

I wonder why! Taken from the BBC website.

Sixty years ago the "modern computer" was born in a lab in Manchester.

The Small Scale Experimental Machine, or "Baby", was the first to contain memory which could store a program.

The room-sized computer's ability to carry out different tasks - without having to be rebuilt - has led some to describe it as the "first modern PC". Using just 128 bytes of memory, it successfully ran its first set of instructions - to determine the highest factor of a number - on 21 June 1948. "We were extremely excited," Geoff Tootill, one of the builders of Baby told BBC News.

Compare that to what we have now!

This weekend will mark National Veterans Day, with various activities going on around the country over the weekend. Which will celebrate the contribution of HM Forces veterans have made in both world wars and in modern times?

The biggest event will be held in Blackpool. But I will be attending the one in Southend and even have my veterans badge now. The 3 day event in Southend kicks off on Friday afternoon with the Mayor opening the celebration with an afternoon of music and memories.

At the moment I am reading up on lightning protection of buildings an interesting and riveting of subject. I fully believe it will be on the best seller list by the end of the month and should be nominated for a Pulitzer prise.  

Am struggling to contain my excitement, it’s really going to be a thrilling day. Once I have completed that book I have another top seller to review Part ‘L’ of the Building Regulations (Conservation of Fuel & Power).

Anybody fancy exchanging jobs!

While driving home last night I was interested to hear an article on the news reported to have come from the RAC. The report stated that in Essex,  since petrol prices have risen that they have noticed less cars on the road and drivers are driving slower to conserve fuel and reduce costs.

I have always driven slowly to reduce petrol consumption, however, I don’t think I have noticed many other drivers driving practically slowly and I definitely haven’t seen a reduction in the number of vehicles on the road. Although I haven’t counted them, but the traffic jam still seem as long to me.

Britain's busiest airport, Heathrow, is "jam-packed" and needs a third runway to remain competitive globally, the head of its operator, BAA, will say.  Well they would say that wouldn’t they?

But does Heathrow need an extra runway, and will Stansted require a new runway as well?

With the rising cost of fuel and inflation on the way up, I think people will be more careful with what little money they have. I believe that a large number of people will not be able to able to afford holidays abroad and will have to holiday in this country. If fuel keeps rising at the rate it is, how long before these cheap airlines go out of business they can’t keep absorbing the fuel costs and eventually these will have to be passed to the customer. Will these customers want to fly so often then, I doubt it vey much?

So do these airports require extra runways? The simple answer is no they don’t, if fact the rise in the fuel prices may be the best help the environment can get.

After the law lords ruled that a man convicted of murder did not receive a fair trail, because evidence was given by anonymous witnesses a potential avalanche of appeal are expected. This must be most damaging event for decades to the criminal justice system.

Intimidation of witnesses in cases of gang and gun crime has always been a factor in bringing offenders to trail, witnesses need protection and anonymity in these high profile cases, we can’t expect people to stand in the witness box and give evidence against hardened criminals when they are putting their families and themselves in danger of persecution and threats of murder.

There of course must be checks and balances and trails must be fair, that is what makes our criminal system the best in the world. But we can’t afford to let murderer's, gang member and drug dealers go free because we don’t have a system in place to protect witnesses.

The Government should act immediately to rectify this situation before we have these people back on the streets. Where would be the justice in that?