What goes around

I was very excited this morning to receive a new front fender for my motorcycle. The Hayabusa is nearly 'cherry' again, and though my existing fender looks fine, it does have a few obvious paint touch-ups applied.

Unfortunately, when I opened the package, I discovered that there were some little nicks in the paint. Nothing major, really; it just looks as if they clipped it a couple of times when they stapled the shipping box.

Granted, it's a front fender, and it's inevitably going to get a few paint chips from daily riding, but I'd rather not start off that way. I suppose I'm being overly picky, and it feels silly to send it back for such small defects.

But here's the point, Suzuki -- are you listening?: When you charge £120 for a smallish piece of moulded plastic, it had better be a frigging thing of beauty.

So, back it goes.

Kill the wabbit, kill the wabbit

Unusual circumstances in Northamptonshire:

Customers in 100,000 homes were told by Anglian Water to boil tap water for up to 10 days after the Cryptosporidium outbreak on 25 June.

The firm said a rabbit gaining access to the treatment process led to the bug at Pitsford Treatment works.

"We have already taken steps to ensure this cannot happen again," Peter Simpson, of Anglian Water, said.

"We have concluded that this occurrence was due to a combination of unusual circumstances."

An unauthorised rabbit "gained access"! Did an accomplice on the inside give him a key?

Someone has to ask the question, and it might as well be me: Was this a terrorist rabbit?