Well, after all the drama with Ollie, Pandora decided to chase an enemy cat off the property last night and got hit by a car. We got a phone call about 7pm last night (they have name tags now). Diana and Rory took her to the vet, she should be okay, we find out more this morning when we transfer her to the regular vet at 8am. Jaw mostly (common injury, happened to our cat Trouble a few days before we got married) but they didn't know about internals last night.
LOCAL NEWS
A bizarre incident at a gas station near Napier. A guy thumped the hood of a car as he walked past, the owner of the car took exception to this and hit the guy with his car a couple of time. The driver was arrested and the pedestrian is in hospital with pretty serious injuries.
A whacking great red bull, known (cleverly) as "big red" died during surgery this week. The thing stood about two metres high and would have looked pretty scary in any well though of Remuera China Shop.
A woman that left her children at home while she picked up her husband from the pub (then stayed a couple of hours and drank and played pool) has been sentenced to 18 months in prison. While she was gone, the house caught fire and two of the three children died. The third was rescued by drunk husband but suffered 20% burns, the drunk husband died trying to rescue the others. Home detention is on offer so she can stay with the surviving child. Whilst it is a truly tragic thing, and punishing the child again doesn't seem fair, one wonders if being left in the care of his mother is actually a kind thing to do given her previous behaviour.
A three year old was lost overnight in bush was found cuddling his dog for warmth. Gavin thinks it is unfair that a dog attacking someone is front page news but when one saves the life of a child it doesn't get much airtime. I think they should stop referring to them as dog attacks and call them "rottweiler attacks" or whatever the breed is. You'd never see a Labrador attack in the paper.
After the continuous and dull scandal of Ahmed Zaoui, the potential terrorist that has been held in a New Zealand jail for 500 days, we now supposedly have two Israeli Nationals involved in a passport scam and they reckon they work for Mossad. Our poor immigration people just won't be able to cope. After the attack on the Hamas leader, Helen may have to be careful about how she slaps the Israeli wrists.
Some scientists have decided that maybe the spray they kill moths with is bad for some people. You think?
A man who lost his life two years ago while saving two boys from drowning is to receive a certificate from the Royal Humane Society. I am sure that will help his family considerably. Now everyone knows you get a certificate for that, people will be diving in to rescue people in the water at the drop of a swimming cap.
WORLD NEWS
George is keeping his toy soldiers in Iraq for another three months.
Europe is not bowing to Osama's suggestion to leave Muslim countries alone and he'll leave them alone. I think Osama might be George Bush Senior's bastard love child and that is why he doesn't like George Junior. If it is true, he shouldn't be so bitter. Yes, GW is president of the free world, but Osama got the looks and the brains.
Israel's execution of the Hamas Leader is not going to settle things down. When will they ever learn, you have to wonder.
Whatever Mr and Mrs Beckham (or anyone else for that matter) do in their bedroom or anyone else's is up to them, I don't care, it's not my business, and it's not sport news either.
REAL SPORT
We had two friendly games on Saturday, one for Hannah, one for Rory. Diana and I were the only two that had divided attention with the two games going on at once. Hannah's game was between girls from her team and another club team, although most of the players were from Hannah's team. Rory's game was a mixture of boys from the whole of 12th grade (those that were around).
Hannah scored the opening goal for her team, and shot from anywhere but didn't score again, although her team won 12-0. One girl was feeling ill, but had insisted that the family don't stay the night in Rotorua as planned and come home in time for it. She scored seven goals. Rory's team lost 6-4, but Rory scored two goals, I saw one and it was a nice shot that the goalie should have got to but avoided it because of the speed.
Everyone had a good time, it was sunny, parents all sat or stood in the sun and watched (while I hovered between both games, having an interest in both). The kids were all red-faced at the end. We ran the games for an hour and a half.
SPORT
The Blues got insult and injury at the hands of the Stormers and have no hope of a semi-final spot now. About four players were injured early in the game and they got thumped. The Chiefs won away to the Sharks, the Hurricanes lost to the Waratahs. The Bulls beat the Reds, who should be very embarrassed. The Crusaders just beat Cats.
Brian Lara's quadruple century against England was pretty impressive. Lucky he was the captain so he could declare after he got it. At least it was against a proper team.
The Propecia Rally of New Zealand has been going over the weekend. Wake me up when it's finished. Petter Solberg won (I think).
Man Utd lost to Portsmouth (how could they) and Chelsea had a 0-0 with Everton, so Arsenal are in the box seat for the premiership already after thumping hapless Leeds 5-0. Newcastle were down to 10 men after ten minutes but held on for a 0-0 draw with Villa.
Warriors have lost five of six games now.
MY SAD LIFE
The Goodins have been married sixteen long years, as of Friday.
On Saturday, it was my Father's birthday, his first since he died.
Gavin had some fun with his thumb this week. After a nine hour session at Middlemore on Thursday, he got his thumb rebroken twice (at least there was anaesthetic the first time). Funnily enough, he's still off work.
Rory's finger is still a bit tender but is okay, I think.
Gavin's flatmates got a puppy this week. It's a lab cross, a boy called Chino (named after a type of trousers).
The kids took Gavin to Armageddon on Friday, they didn't spend a lot of time there, so it can't have been that good. They went to see Scooby Doo 2 as well. I didn't go, didn't have a chance, first time I have been to it in many years.
Went to the Avondale flea market with the kids on Sunday morning, after heaps of nagging from Hannah for a couple of weeks. Rory didn't want to go, but returned with a few things that he was very happy with. Hannah bought some Russian fudge and not much else.
Did my radio thing again yesterday, going to be the first Sunday of the month from now on. Was interrupted by three trotting races, first time that's happened.
The kittens had been really good this week after having the cat door fully functional. No more chasing them around the garden and getting them inside. Ollie is really cute, he comes inside and finds Hannah and has big cuddles with her.
Well, better go, have a meeting to attend.
Rob
OPTIONAL RANT - LEGALISING GAY MARRIAGES
The whole thing with gay marriages seems to be continuously on the news. In one of those moments when my brain was unoccupied it occurred to me that marriage is in many ways like being joint shareholders in a company. So why not form a company called "Jeremy & Cecil Ltd" and run everything out of it? Then they could put all marital assets into the company and have rights that are very similar to husband and wife. That would really screw up the governments and their taxation revenue if gay couples started deducting all sorts of expenses and things. Hitting the government in the wallet might be enough to motivate them to stop continuing with a bizarre law. Frankly, given my own view on weddings, I wonder whether the company could run it as a "client function" and make the wedding and honeymoon tax deductible. Personally, I think it is a ridiculous thing that people who clearly aren't gay have a problem with gay marriage. Whilst I don't intend to ever enter into such an arrangement, as long as it isn't made compulsory I don't give a toss about whether it's legal or not. I have a real problem with various groups with no interest wanting to prevent it from being legalised. I am also sick of hearing about it.
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