Rabbit Thought of the Day

Talking fuel caps are being fitted onto Essex Police cars reminding officers not to fill up with the wrong fuel. The force introduced the devices after it paid out £42,000 for repairs in five years because more than 200 cars were filled with the wrong fuel. Automated messages will tell drivers whether their car is petrol or diesel.

A police spokeswoman said staff used a variety of petrol and diesel fuelled cars in a week. The device is one of several measures to combat the problem. She said: "We have also fitted large yellow fuel flaps over the filling point, reminding the driver who has to lift them up to refill the vehicle with the correct fuel." Devices prevent petrol nozzles fitting into diesel tanks are also being introduced. Gavin Hill-Smith, from the AA, said there were about 150,000 incidents of people using the wrong fuel each year.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Two Chinese wedding banquets held on successive nights at the same restaurant put at least 60 guests into hospital with food poisoning, the latest in a series of village dinner upsets.

Of around 250 villagers who attended the banquets on Friday and Saturday in a rural suburb of Beijing, at least 60 were rushed to hospital in the following days. "It was embarrassing to have to tell others that I vomited and had diarrhoea at a wedding banquet," the Beijing News quoted one villager as saying.

Earlier this month, 170 guests were poisoned at a wedding banquet in the neighbouring province of Hebei when powdered rust remover was added to the pot instead of salt. A day earlier, 61 wedding guests suffered food poisoning at a banquet in impoverished Gansu province in the northwest. China has been hit by a series of food safety scares in recent years, most recently when thousands of infants fell sick from contaminated milk powder that also killed four babies.

We weren’t quite so bad, but quite a few of our wedding guest came down with food poisoning, but it was bad enough to call in the environmental health team. We didn’t know anything about until we returned from our honeymoon. It was put down to badly cooked chicken, fortunately because we were to busy chatting to our guests we didn’t have much to eat that night so we didn’t suffer.

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Former All Black and Samoan rugby international Ofisa Tonu'u made the most important interception of his life Tuesday when his wife went into labour. Tonu'u had to step in when his wife Sheralynn was sent home from hospital after her contractions stopped.

When the contractions suddenly returned the couple did not have time to make it back and Tonu'u, who played five test matches each for Samoa and New Zealand in the 1990s, delivered a healthy baby daughter, the New Zealand Press Association reported.

Tonu'u took instructions over the telephone and had to contend with another emergency when the baby's cord tightened around her neck, but he was able to force it over her head and free her. "I didn't drop the ball this time," the former scrumhalf joked. The couple, who have four other children, named the girl Francesca Eti Tonu'u.

Good job it wasn’t an English rugby player or they would have it, or kicked it into touch.

Lunch time day, and this morning has seen me reading through loads of documents, procedures, health and safety the usual crap that we all have to go through when starting a new job. I still have plenty to go through before I start on before I start on the interesting stuff, of projects. Then those documents will take me a considerable time to get through.

It always takes time to get your feet under the table when first starting out. I still haven’t got my own computer and email log in, but they have promised for this afternoon. One bad thing I can’t access my personal hotmail account though. That’s a bit a of a bugger, but suppose that’s computer security for you!

I was home late last night and by the time I had finished my meal, I didn’t feel like going out on my, something I now regret. It’s the first time I have missed a bike ride in months. When I weighed myself this morning I found that once again I have not lost any weight, but have gained two pounds since last week.

Last week and the week before I was 15st 1 lb this week 15st 3lb. Which is very disappointing, but I am not losing heart, I knew from the beginning it would be difficult and that I would suffer some disappointments. I will just have to but it behind me and work harder in future. Next week I promise to bring good news and tell you all I’m back on track again.

I still think something funny was going on with the scales, the week before last I lost 5 pounds according to the nurse, still it doesn’t excuse the two pounds I have put on this week.

Well here I am once again, sat at my desk in a new job, yesterday went very well considering HR and my line manager weren’t around. I was asked to look at a number of issues which I managed to complete without any problem. It seems my security clearance came through without any problems, in fact it seems it has never come back so fast in has been known to take up to 3 months. In my case it took two weeks. Maybe it is because I am an ex military man or that I security done last year for Hertfordshire Police HQ, whatever I ma just happy that it was ok.

The drive home last night was a bit of a nightmare heavy rain coupled with a few accidents and a number of road works made for very slow driving. I remember sitting in a traffic jam thinking, my god I have made a big mistake here. But I managed to get home safely, even if was a little late.