Rabbit Thought of the Day

Now I have been going out on my bike now for about ten weeks, so I have decided that I would like to try a little off road cycling (well I do have a mountain bike). I have checked out a few websites and there are not many cycle routes in my area, (Essex is not known for its mountains) and what routes are advertised seem to be some distance away. 

 

The resignation letters have printed and signed and are now sating t in my desk draw and will be issued first thing in the morning. I have two letters one for my line manager and one for HR. It should make tomorrow morning quite interesting. I have been looking at how much holiday I have left and I believe that I should have 2 or 3 days to take depending on how the company calculate it, I am sure it will be different than the way I work it out, and I think I have 3 days left.

Thirty lumberjacks are in Staffordshire for a contest which will give the winner the right to be named the best in Europe.

Climbing trees and using axes, saws and chainsaws to cut logs will be part of the test.

But, unlike Monty Python's Lumberjack song, flower-pressing, tree-leaping and transvestism do not feature. The event takes place at the three-day International Forestry Machinery Exhibition in Cannock Chase.

Competitors from six countries have entered while a team competition will be held on Saturday.

Dave Sands, secretary of the British Lumberjack Sports Association, said: "We're going to have guys cutting 13 in logs today with axes quicker than most commercial guys can do with chainsaws.

"We've got the top guys from around the world practising their axe skills."

KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 17 (UPI) -- Police in Knoxville, Tenn., say a man has been arrested for burglary after he phoned authorities and told them he was stuck in a museum ventilation shaft.  

Knoxville police said Anthony Smith, 25, called 911 shortly before 4:30 a.m. Wednesday and told the dispatcher he was wedged in the ventilation system at the Knoxville Museum of Art, WBIR-TV in Knoxville reported. 

Police and firefighters arrived at the museum to find Smith wedged 40 feet down a ventilator shaft but investigators said they are unsure of how he could have gotten onto the building's roof. 

Authorities said nothing was disturbed inside the museum. However, Smith was arrested on the burglary charge after being extracted from the tight space.

FORT WORTH, Texas - A 20-year-old woman faces an aggravated assault charge after she bit her boyfriend, broke a picture frame across his face and swung at him with a sword during an argument about him not doing the dishes, police said.

The woman was arrested Thursday afternoon at the couple's apartment, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported on its Web site.

The 21-year-old man told police that he became involved in an argument because the woman was upset that the dishes were not clean. Police Lt. Paul Henderson said the woman told the man to leave the apartment, but he refused.

The woman then grabbed an approximately 2-foot sword and swung it at him, but missed, police said.

The woman was released from a Mansfield jail after posting a $10,000 bond, jail officials said.

TOKYO (Reuters) - The world's oldest man celebrated his 113th birthday on Thursday, telling reporters at his home in southern Japan about his joyful life and healthy appetite.

"I'm happy," said Tomoji Tanabe as the local mayor presented him with flowers and a giant tea cup glazed with his name and date of birth. "I'm well. I eat a lot," he added.

Tanabe, recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest living male last year, eats mostly vegetables and believes the key to longevity is not drinking alcohol.

The former civil servant lives with his son, drinks milk every day and has no major illnesses, although he now writes in his diary only once or twice a month. He used to write on a daily basis.

"His favourite food is fried shrimp, but we've heard that he's cut back on oily food," said an official at his hometown of Miyakonojo, about 900 km (560 miles) southwest of Tokyo.

"He's said he wants to live for another 10 years, that he doesn't want to die." The Japanese are among the world's longest-lived people, with the number of those aged 100 or older at a record 36,276, a government report last week showed.

Japanese women have topped the world's longevity ranks for 23 years, while men rank third after Iceland and Hong Kong.

OTTAWA (Reuters) - The leader of Canada's Green Party, unveiling an election platform that includes a proposal to legalize marijuana, apologised on Wednesday for not having smoked pot.

"I am not a fan of marijuana use. I have to confess this -- I know all politicians are asked. I've never used marijuana. I apologise," said Elizabeth May, who won extra attention this year by being allowed to join the televised national leaders' debates.

The Greens' platform proposes to allow the sale of marijuana to adults through licensed distribution outlets, generating about C$1 billion (520 million pounds) annually in taxes.

The more high-profile part of the party's platform would impose C$36 billion (18.7 billion pounds) to C$37 billion a year in carbon taxes on fossil fuels as part of a program -- similar to a more modest plan proposed by the Liberal Party -- to shift taxation from income to consumption.

May also said the Green Party would slash military spending and subsidies to industry, and keep the federal budget in surplus.

The Greens poll at about 8 to 10 percent at the moment and could be hard pressed to keep their one seat in Parliament.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - An Australian pub offering free drinks to women who remove their underwear and display it to patrons and staff will be investigated by alcohol licensing regulators, authorities said on Thursday.

The Saint Hotel in Melbourne has promised a "No Undie Sundie" event over the coming weekend, where woman who remove their underwear and hang it above the bar will receive A$50 (21.80 pounds) worth of free drinks.

Women who flash their bras and underwear to staff also get free drinks, the pub said, in a promotion that women's protection groups said was "almost an invitation to sexual assault".

"On the face of it, it looks like an inappropriate liquor promotion and we will be investigating with a view to banning it," Liquor Licensing Victoria director Sue Maclellan told the Herald Sun newspaper.

On its website the Saint describes itself as "the home of Melbourne's fashionable set", but pub attracted the ire of regulators in June after hiring a dwarf to pour free liquor down patrons' throats.

Posters for the no undies day event showed singer Britney Spears partially exposed and exiting a car in a scene local Mayor Janet Cribbes said was "bordering on being pornographic".

The pub's managers had gone to ground on Thursday and were not answering phone calls.

Some places will do anything to attract customers.

Tomorrow will be a big day for me, I will hand my notice in, I have drafted the letter and it’s sitting on my memory stick. I will go through it once again today to be sure it says every thing I wish it to say. I was going to wait until I had my leaving interview before I raised the issues of pay and bonuses, and the lack and quality of management within the company. But if I did that that it probably wouldn’t be recorded any where, however because I have addressed these issues in my resignation letter then at least they will be recorded somewhere and believe me its long resignation letter.  

Last night I spent a good couple of hours filling the paper work for my new job, some of the forms were really quite interesting and I thought some of the questions were a little stupid but quiet funny. Take the security form for instance, now the nation of my new employment will involve some work that will take place in classified and secure locations. So the form was asking about my military service, but then went on to ask

Have you ever taken part in any espionage activities?

Have you ever taken part in any terrorist activities?

Have you been involved in any groups who have taken part in espionage or terrorist activities?

At this point I burst into fits of laughter and Rosemary asked what would happen if anybody answered yes to any of those questions. I don’t think they would get the job, but would anybody really answer yes to the questions. But I have never filled that number of forms before they went on and on. Oh well I have filled them all in now except I need the addresses of my referees which I will get this morning.

One last thing the security forms were as I mentioned quite involved they even asked question about my parents.

Yesterday’s meeting went well for a change and we did solve a few problems which I believe is a first for us; normally we create more problems and don’t seem to achieve anything. I was home earlier than I normally would so you could say yesterday was a good day.   

Of course having a good day yesterday will probably mean that today will be a bad it just not possible to have two good days in row, my luck is not that good.

Hello good people and welcome to Thursday, this time tomorrow we will all be thinking about the weekend, contemplating where we are going to go and what we will be getting up to too. Me personally I already know what I am doing, and that is visiting Leicester University with Caz, this is the last one for me but her dad (I’m only her step father after all) will taking her to three more.

It been quite interesting for me the last few weeks, I have only visited Brunel University a couple times when I was taking my master in the Open University program so I am really clued up on university life. I never had that opportunity when I was younger, still I have worked hard anhd now have excellent qualifications.