Well, Queens birthday weekend. Russell Coutts got the order of NZ or some other thing, not many people would agree with that award now. The skipper of Prada got something too.
To celebrate, the Queen has met Camilla for the first time, and realises she poses no threat. I think even the Queen Mother is better looking than Camilla so no danger of her being on the front page all the time.
A boy lost in bush was recovered alive. Weather has been pretty bad, buckets of rain, minor flooding.
David Tua had a 51 second boxing bout in Las Vegas. Another yawn. Glad, yet again, that I didn't wait for nearly two hours to catch the blink and you miss it fight. Supposedly he will fight Lennox Lewis in November. Remember to keep two minutes free for that.
The Olympic flame is being carried through NZ for three days this week.
Some westie brain surgeon crashed into a power pylon in Massey, took out two of the four legs, about a 100 people were evacuated at 2am in the morning as risk was about 7 or 8 pylons could fall if this one did. Went up a bank and somehow still managed to take two out.
The Southern Sting beat the Canterbury Flames in the netball final.
Nasty accident with two trucks and some chemicals north of Taupo. Last I heard they thought a van was mushed in between with people in the area needing to seek medical attention because of toxins floating around.
Doctor Morgan Fahey was sentenced to 6 years for molesting patients for 30 years, a councillor and fine upstanding citizen who nearly managed to convince the world that all these women were somehow mistaken. A complete scumbag. I even wrote a letter to the Herald I was so annoyed with the wimpy sentence.
The army took charge in Fiji, but nothing really happened. I decided that George Speight, coup leader, was a bit like a Fijian Winston Peters, then soon afterward Winston issued a statement to the contrary (my conclusion was alluded to on the telly). He does, though. It is the most times Winston has been mentioned in ages.
Michael Campbell came second equal in English Open Golf tournament after leading by heaps earlier in the tournament (not British Open).
Big news in soccer, Hannah is going to start playing. Been working on her with irrefutable logic. The two girls in the 11th grade squad are really good, they came 1st and third in their cross country, Hannah came first in her cross country, therefore she must be a good soccer player. Same sort of method used for proving the guilt of witches a few years back. She will probably play for Lissies team. We got some old boots off Jared and have been practicing for next weekend. She got a gold medal at school assembly on Friday for her effort in the cross country.
Discovered that the Orcas are playing in the A Division, that is why they are finding it harder this year. We don't play wimpy teams any more.
Orcas won 3-0 on Saturday, Rory saved a certain goal by deflecting it at the last second. Rory and Harry played for the Tigers, and I coached the game, as they were short and they played right after us. Never thought we would play. Wet all week on and off, missed training for the first time so far this season this week. Rain stopped at 8:28, we kicked off at 8:30. Had the whole team there, except Billy who was away, other team only had six so we played with two subs. Ryan nearly got a hat trick, scored two. Tigers game back from 1-0 down to get a 2-2 draw.
11th graders were short two players to start, had one arrive 15 minutes late, played the rest of the game with 10, against 11 with a sub as well. We were up 3-0 early in the second half, but the other team clawed back to 3-3. Norris scored his fourth goal just at the end to get a win, he has scored 7 in the last two games. They won last week, when I couldn't be there due to commitments with the Orcas.
Climbing wall being well used. Has been tested by a number of Rory's friends now.
Spent a wet Sunday doing lots of household maintenance. Removed lots of things from the garage and installed them where they could be useful - like some batts that had been in the way for ages. Hung lots of things on the wall, towel rail, hooks, rack for holding garden equipment, security light, had a real party. Blocked the hole left by the chimney we removed a few weeks back.
Hannah has been miserable with a cold, mostly cheerful but very quiet and with a tissue permanently attached to her face.
Haven't managed to finalise my travel, but getting close. Leave on the 28th June, get to London on the 3rd July, not sure about SF date yet. Starting to look forward to it. Holiday prior is now completely off. Might go somewhere in August.
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