Rabbit Thought of the Day

God, its not even lunch time yet and I’m starving this morning as just dragged so much, consider the rest of the week as flown by. I am definitely disappearing after lunch; well I have done more hours this than I am required to do, and this company don’t pay overtime there is no reason for me to stay.

I have actually done some useful work this morning despite my being on here quite a few times. I have produced and sent a few tender documents so I may happy with the overall work I have this morning. But hopefully another hour and I would like to be on my way.

Am struggling to remain interested this morning, my mind keeps wandering and I just want to disappear home, put my feet, relax and read my book.

I started to read Terry Pratchett’s new book last night ‘Nation’ while the discworld novels are one of my favourite series of books this is a new direction for Terry. I am not sure yet if I like is new book it’s far too early to tell, but the wit is still the same so I am sure I won’t be disappointed.

He is still an excellent writer and his humour, wit and style are second to none.

JK Rowling is the world's highest-earning author, making more than £5 every second over the past year, US business magazine Forbes has announced.

The Harry Potter writer, who made a total of $300m (£170m) last year, wrote the first of her best-selling books about the boy wizard in 1997.

Her income was six times more than literature's next-biggest earner, James Patterson, of Along Came A Spider fame. The magazine described her work as "a children's literary sensation".

A Forbes spokesman said: "It was wizardry that transformed JK Rowling from a destitute single mother on welfare into a best-selling billionaire. "Over on the big screen, her Potter franchise has already generated $4.5bn (£2.5bn) at the worldwide box office - and she still has three more flicks to come." Since the first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, was published, the series has taken the world by storm.

The books have sold more than 400 million copies and been translated into 67 languages. The final instalment of the series, Deathly Hallows, has sold 44 million copies since it came out last summer - including 15 million in the first 24 hours, the magazine said. Elsewhere on the list was horror author Stephen King in third place, followed by Tom Clancy, best known for his 1984 novel The Hunt for Red October.

At number five was Danielle Steel, with John Grisham and Dean Koontz equal in sixth place. Best-selling author of Pillars of the Earth, Ken Follett, was in eighth place, while Janet Evanovich, the writer behind the Stephanie Plum novels, was at number nine.

US writer Nicholas Sparks rounded off the top 10.

The Dartford morgue, otherwise know as the office is worse than quiet. A morgue would be quite an apt name for it. There are less people in that I envisaged and even the people that are here are just sitting quietly at their desks no interaction or conservation appears to be taking place.

This place sometimes gets me down, the nearest person to me is some 15m away and if we were to conversation we would have to shout, thank heaven for the music on my PC and my headphones. I can lose myself in my own little world and not worry about anybody else.

Still it Friday and I am intent on leaving early!

I have just finished archiving all my old emails, cleaned the hard drive on the computer of all the crap it collects, i.e., cookies, and the history and all the shit like that. Oh and I have defragged the hard drive, so all the admin is now complete, like I predicted it’s very quiet here most of the senior management are out of the office and my line manager has gone fishing in Norfolk. So I am doing a few jobs that are outstanding, which should take up until lunch time then I going to make like a magician and disappear.

We haven’t got a lot planned for the weekend; I have ordered a set of DVD ‘Supernatural – Season 3’ which I hope arrives today or at the very least in the morning which we can watch over the weekend. It’s either that or ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ which is just as frightening, lol.

I will be out on bike again this weekend, an eleven miler tonight, 13 miles in the morning and Sunday will be the big a full 18 miles with an 8 mile  Xcountry section thrown in. Which should be rather muddy and great fun.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - The parents of a 7-year-old boy who broke into an Australian outback zoo and fed a string of small animals to its resident crocodile are likely to be sued after police said the boy was too young to be held responsible.

A turtle, four western blue tongue lizards, two bearded dragons, two thorny devil lizards and a 1.8 metre (5.9ft) adult female Spencer's goanna were fed or led into the jaws of a 3 metre, 200kg (440lb) saltwater crocodile named "Terry."

Security camera footage at the Alice Springs Reptile Centre showed the smiling youngster also bludgeoning to death a small blue tongue lizard and two more thorny devils during a half-hour of breakfast-time havoc last Wednesday.

"The fact a 7-year-old can wreak so much havoc in such a short time, it's unbelievable. In my day he'd get a big boot up the arse," centre director Rex Neindorf told Reuters by phone.

"Police found him, but in the Northern Territory here he can't be accountable if he's under 10 years of age." Neindorf said many of the animals fed to the croc were rare or mature and would be difficult to replace.

The boy was unknown at the centre and had "clammed up" when questioned by police on what sparked the rampage, he said. Neindorf said he was now looking at suing the parents of the pint-sized terror, who could easily have been taken by Terry himself as he fed the croc from a small landing at his enclosure.

"We'll be looking at suing the parents, who were supposedly in control of him at the time," he said.

Did he jump or was he pushed, that is the question that the media are asking this morning after the resignation of Met Police Chief, Sir Ian Blair. It is no secret that the new Mayor of London Boris Johnson did not like Sir Ian. A lot of the media have come to the conclusion that after recent events in the Met Police that in reality Boris Johnson effectively sacked the Police Chief a move that he of course denies.  

But he has come under pressure to resign after news that the Police authority is being sued by a number of high ranking offices on the grounds of race discrimination. However, whatever the findings of these tribunal one thing must be made clear that since he took over the office some three and half years ago, he has increased the number of officers on the beat and crime has fallen, which I believe is what he was employed to do.

There will always be people with grievances and incidents like the Menezes case did not help the situation, but it is unfortunate that he has resigned or was he sacked. It seems a clash of personalities to me, Johnson didn’t like and said as much when he was campaigning for the position of mayor, so the writing was on the wall even then.

It’s Jeans for Gene’s day, today so most people here will do the right thing for charity. The cost, two pounds to wear jeans or three pounds if you wear normal attire, purely voluntary of course. I am sure people don’t mind to cough up a couple quid now and again.

Rosemary and I will have a quiet time this weekend, Caz is off to her father tonight ready for an earlier morning start to Canterbury University tomorrow and she is also visiting the University of Kent, which by a strange quirk of fate is also in Canterbury.

After this weekend, she has Cambridge and Winchester University to go, it then decision time, I believe she has to submit her choices to UCLAS (is that right) before the end of October. I still think her favourite is Nottingham at the moment; however she is a female of the species and of course subject to mood swings and a change of mind.  

Do you have that Friday feeling, well I do. It’s here once again the best day of the working week after today we can all put our feet and enjoy a well deserved rest, because it will be the weekend?

This week seems to have flown by, and I now only have two weeks remaining in this position before I am off to pastures new. Unfortunately I am quite busy but at least it makes the time go faster.

It should be a quiet day, I am looking at the locations board and most people seem to be out of the office today, well it is Friday and I won’t be hanging around today either, the first chance I get I will be off out the day like a shot.