Rabbit Thought of the Day

Water was always a premium when I was out in Cyprus, but it appears that things have taken a turn for the worse, holiday makers take note:

Repeated delays in shipping much needed water from Greece has left one of Cyprus's largest cities with only two weeks' supply of water as the country faces severe drought, officials said on Wednesday.  New setbacks in getting drinking water off a ship for the 177,000 residents of Limassol, a port city in the south, has left its reservoir with only 0.8 million cubic meters of supplies.

The city requires 45,000 cubic meters of water per day. "The way things are going now, it's not enough to last even 20 days. It's possibly enough for 17 or 18 days," said Kyriakos Kyrrou, an official from Cyprus's water department.

"But whatever happens, people will get water," he told Reuters.

Cyprus, facing its worst water shortage in decades, has ordered 8.0 million cubic meters of water from Greece. Ships will carry out about 200 shuttles until November.

But the project has faced repeated setbacks. Initially, the ship-to-shore pipeline was not ready when a boat docked at the end of June because of a short pipe.

When it was finally hooked-up, authorities ruled the water had to be discharged into boreholes instead of the supply network because it had been on the boat for too many days. Part of the pipeline had to be disconnected at the weekend because of an air blockage, and authorities say it may be back online only by next Sunday.

Cyprus has two water desalination plants producing 100,000 cubic meters of water daily, supplying the capital Nicosia and eastern areas of the island.

Authorities said they would divert some of the desalinated water to Limassol if the situation deteriorates further.

"All I can say is God help us," said hotel employee Stavroulla Soteriou, 55, in Limassol. "I really don't know what more we can do once the water runs out."

A New Jersey man trying to exterminate insects in his apartment blew it up instead, the New York Daily News reported on Monday. Isias Vidal Maceda was unhurt in the incident, but 80 percent of his apartment was destroyed, Eatontown, New Jersey police told the newspaper.

The accident occurred as Maceda was spraying for pests in his kitchen. Somehow the bug spray ignited a blast that blew out the apartment's front windows and triggered a fire that quickly spread, the newspaper said.

Police told the newspaper that the Saturday blaze also caused smoke damage to the apartment above.

I have just been day dreaming while staring out of the window, it looks so nice out there and I’m still stuck in this bloody office, have just checked the local weather at the moment its 24C but may rise to 26C before the day is out. The weather is looking crap for the weekend though which is bloody typical isn’t it? It’s a possibility though that forecasters will be wrong (they usually are) and it will stay warm and sunny all weekend, well we have to believe in something don’t we.

Today is the first day I have felt really hungry since I stared the diet, mainly because I didn’t have a great deal to eat last night. It was so warm yesterday evening that none of us felt like eating so we just picked at your dinner. The cats however, did though as per normal.

Speaking about the cats, little Gaia the youngest female in the house decided that it would be good fun to fall out of the window. Rosemary had all the windows open in flat and little Gaia was wondering around on the window sill, when all of a sudden she disappeared, now we live in a first floor flat so she had a fair distance to fall. She didn’t come to any harm thank god and this is second time she has done it. So I make two lives down and 7 more to go.

Hundreds of bishops from across the world are to join a procession through central London calling for urgent action to tackle global poverty. The Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams will lead the walk from parliament to Lambeth Palace.

At a rally he will call on governments to fulfill their promises on aid and development or see the world's poor suffer disease starvation and death.

He will say there is a "genuine opportunity" to end extreme poverty.

But the archbishop will warn that most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) agreed by world leaders in 2000 to halve poverty by 2015, will not, be fulfilled by then, and risk never being achieved at all.

He will be joined in his plea to governments to honour their promises on aid by Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

A noble cause and one which should be addressed, and this is what religion should be tackling, what a shame they can’t put they own house in order before trying to sort out the worlds problems. If they can’t agree on women bishops and gays in the clergy then how can they solve the real problems in the world?

God help the first lesbian to become a bishop, now that would be something to see!

According to the weather forecast last nigh, yesterday was the warmest day of the year so far, but today is going to be even warmer and where am during this glorious weather may I ask? The answer is, stuck in this bloody office I should be somewhere nice like the beach or in a national park somewhere enjoying the fresh and the scenery not stuck in a bloody office. Still only 4 weeks to go and I have two full off, I can’t wait.