Rabbit Thought of the Day

It’s been another great day here on the coast, (Southend on Mud), and plenty of about people enjoying the lovely autumn sunshine. It’s seems like tomorrow will be pretty much the shame as will the next few days, well it is for us down south the rest of country I’m afraid will have suffer the wet and windy weather.

Rosemary has just put a nice bit offish in the oven for out dinner, served with a nice baked potato and fresh vegetables, a meal fit for diet, lol. Plus I like fish, strange we had salmon last night, plaice tonight and kipper tomorrow morning, we will start looking fish at this rate, still its supposed to be good for you, I do like it and it’s not bad for my diet.

A daredevil circus acrobat has set a new world record for cycling along a high wire.

Nik Wallenda slowly pedalled 235 feet between a crane and a skyscraper in Newark, New Jersey.

The ride, 135 feet above the ground, set a world record for the longest bicycle passage on a wire without a safety net.

Newark Mayor Cory Booker, who fought to get Wallenda permission for the stunt, was among the onlookers.

"We're doing everything we can to lift the city and it would have been tragic if he had fallen," he said.

Wallenda ,29, said he ran into several unscripted challenges, which included the rear rim on his tireless bicycle slipping toward the end of the ride as the wire angled upward. A set of brackets securing stabiliser wires to the main cable were too thick and also caused problems for him.

"They were like speed bumps," said Wallenda, who hopes to set another record by traversing the Grand Canyon on a high wire next year.

A burglar who was disturbed by a 91-year-old woman when he broke into her house sent her a bunch of flowers the next day to apologise, police said.

The man broke into the house, in the Spring Hall area of Halifax, West Yorkshire, but fled the property empty-handed after being confronted by the pensioner. The next day, the burglar sent the woman flowers with a note saying that he thought the house was unoccupied when he broke in.

PARIS (Reuters) - The Eiffel Tower is cutting down on its display of sparkling lights to set an example of energy saving, its management said Friday.

The Eiffel Tower has twinkled for 10 minutes every hour on the hour during the evening since January 2000.

Now, to reinforce the message that energy must be saved for environmental reasons, the tower will sparkle for just five minutes every hour.

The tower's managers said the measure was mostly symbolic, as the 20,000 flashing light bulbs that produce the twinkling effect consume relatively little energy.

The 300-metre (984-foot) tower is France's most recognisable monument. It has become a popular activity for tourists to gather during the evening on bridges and squares to watch the spectacle.

LAGOS (Reuters) - A father took his 20-year old son to an Islamic court in northern Nigeria for idleness, asking that he be sent to prison for refusing to engage in productive activities, state news agency NAN said on Friday.

"He is not listening to words and he is bringing shame to my family. I am tired of his nefarious deeds. Please put this boy in prison so that I can be free," Sama'ila Tahir, a market trader in the northeastern town of Bauchi, was quoted as saying.

Tahir told the court that his son had refused to go to school and accused him of belonging to a criminal gang.

The court sentenced the son to six months in prison and 30 strokes of the cane -- which were immediately administered on the premises -- for being disobedient to his parents, NAN said.

What a great idea, maybe we should adopt this type of thing in this country

PERTH (Reuters) - Australian police have been left embarrassed after a man stole a large quantity of seized drugs from a police station. More than 2,000 ecstasy pills as well as small amounts of cocaine and amphetamine, with a street value of about A$27,000 (10,700), were stolen from an exhibit room of the Maroochydore police station in the northeastern state of Queensland, police spokesman Ben Tracey said. 

 A small amount of the stolen drugs has since been recovered but most of the drugs are still missing, police said. A 36-year-old tradesman, who was given unsupervised access to the room which contained the drugs, will be charged next week on 10 charges including drug theft.

It must be the weather but the cat is going loopy once again. You know the little caps that fit on top of water bottles, well she’s chasing that around the flat, running up and down the stairs, sounds like I have a heard of elephants in the house, rather than a cat that is supposed to be light on they feet.

Hope fully she will calm down soon and do what cats do best, fall asleep in the sun!

Have just got in after my bike ride and can confirm it a beautiful morning out there. I am glad I waited a little while before going out on my bike it was definitely worth it, the sun had been up long enough to take the chill out of the air, there was very little wind, maybe a just strong enough to flutter the flags on their poles. The only thing that held me was down at Thorpe Bay Yacht club, the members are taking the boats out the water by crane and moving them across the road to boat yard, I had to stop there on the way back and on the way out it just slowed me up.  

But despite having to stop and being slowed down I did my fastest time ever, so as you may imagine I am very happy and best of all I felt really good this morning. Maybe it’s because it was a little warmer or maybe I was just up for it, but I am really happy with today work out.

Good morning fellow bloggers and welcome to another beautiful autumn day, the sun is already warming up the chilly morning. I haven’t been out cycling yet; I thought I would wait until later today. Well when I went first thing in the morning yesterday it was a little too cold, so I thought I would give it a chance to warm up, it’s not that I have anything planned anyway.

If fact we aren’t doing anything today, no washing ironing, cleaning all that is finished and has been put way. I still have to clean to my shoes in preparation for Monday, when I start my new job. Right I must get on catch you all later.