LOCAL NEWS
Local Amateur golfer Bradley Isles fell off a golf cart and cracked his head. He was hospitalised and needed some pretty serious surgery but it sounds like he is recovering.
Life in the Eastern Bay of Plenty hasn't been too flash this week. They had less rain than expected but another little earthquake so they couldn't relax too much. Things slowly calmed down, but one town was cut off by road for a week.
Helen Clark has copped masses of flak for speeding to Christchurch airport (A two and a half hour drive was done in two) so she could get to the rugby on Saturday night before last in Wellington to see the ABs play Australia. As a passenger in the vehicle, she has denied all responsibility (and I don't think you can charge a corpse with speeding anyway, although that could explain why hearses go very slow). Nobody has raised their hand as the person who decided to order them to no spare the horsepower. She now wants a Prime Ministerial plane to get around the country. I am thinking a top-dressing plane that could drop her out the chute over the target and she could skydive in to save time. It should be called a) Air Farce One, b) Scare Force One, c) Living Dead 666, d) a target for the rebellion.
Police described the injuries of a German couple living near Motueka as significant. Given that they were mortal, I think most people would consider them to be significant (certainly from the point of view of the victims and their families). Given that insignificant would be a hangnail or a large bruise, I think they got it right.
The Israeli passport scam continued to be in the news. Another Israeli was named, and a fourth person added to the list of offenders (A New Zealander).
There was lots of snow late in the week and roads were closed in the central North Island.
A Dunedin student was firebombed by a lit toilet roll over the weekend. What can I say.
WORLD NEWS
The big report on 9/11 looked like a phone book. I want to know if GW will read it himself or get someone to read it to him. I am worried it might have big words in it.
A cow in Viet Nam bestows blessing by licking people. I am going to start charging people to be bitten by Pandora.
The Fahrenheit 9/11 movie has had so much publicity but sounds like another lame disjointed waste of celluloid. Michael Moore is a fool who thinks he is an intellectual, and a man of the people who lives in the penthouse. Weaker than Bowling for Columbine is a compliment.
REAL SPORT
Still no water polo yet, next week I think.
Hannah went to a school soccer team trial on Thursday. In atrocious conditions she impressed the selectors (me and a guy called Peter). I was worried she would look weak against the boys (there were two girls and 27 boys at the trial) and she looked damn good (and I tried hard not to be biased, but she made the boys look pretty ordinary).
Hannah's team had a soccer practice on Thursday night in very wet conditions. The field was like a large pond with small islands of grass, rather than the other way around. They got absolutely filthy, but had a lovely time.
The girls played a team that is second on the table, behind the top team on goal difference (they have each won 4 drawn 1). We were defending a lot facing up hill in the first half but managed to hold them out and have a few goes ourselves. 0-0 at half time and the coach was very happy. In the second half we were a bit asleep but started putting them under more pressure. We couldn't quite get there and finally when we were having a go, the ball was cleared and they made a break and scored. We threw everything at them, and Millie was involved in what I call "an off the ball incident" (and is now officially called chopper, but this could get upgraded to chainsaw). Final score was a 0-1 loss, but to the second team in the championship round, I am still very proud of how hard they worked. We only had one sub for the game too.
Rory's team played a team that they had beaten earlier in the season, led 2-0 at half time and 4-0 at full time. Rory was put in defence for some reason (but reason seems to have little to do with many decisions in terms of positions).
SPORT
Well, the All Blacks scored a try six seconds before full time to win the game against South Africa 23-21. It was pretty tight. The Boks scored three tries in the first half but were kept scoreless in the second half.
Michael Schumacher and Lance Armstrong both won again.
MY SAD LIFE
Well, the dreaded Science Project scored an "Excellent" despite Rory deliberately pulling out bits so reduce his chances of going through to the inter-school competition (it involves extra work, which he wasn't keen on and I have to say his parents weren't too enthusiastic). There were 20 Excellents, and considerably more Merits and Credits (everyone got Credit at minimum). The twenty had to be reduced to sixteen and I admit I was hoping his wouldn't be one of the sixteen. We took the thing home again on the Thursday morning, I think his was the first to be taken away (we were allowed to) in the hope that he might drop off the radar that way.
On Thursday afternoon, Rory came home and told us that his project was selected as one of the final ten (so much for dropping off the list). Think that means it must be resurrected in October. What a pain.
Friday comes, Rory comes home from school. About an hour and a half after he gets home he says "oh yes, something I meant to show you". Rummages around in his bag, empties it on the floor, can't find it. Then finally produces a certificate - First in the Physical World. At first, I thought it meant he had done something at phys ed, but no, Physical World is category his science project was in. He didn't get overall first, that went to one of the other category winners (there are five categories). We aren't sure whether we should be proud of him or ourselves because we haven't a clue whether nagging and good sub-editing of material counts as too much assistance. Anyway, pride is a sin, so we shouldn't have pride at all.
Went to see "I, Robot" with the family, Gavin, and Matt. Came home and watched the rugby. Was feeling mostly fine when I went to bed but woke up with eyes all gummy with conjunctivitis (which Hannah had about a week ago). Used her eye cream pretty quickly, but it didn't help immediately. Was pretty miserable yesterday and not feeling much better today.
Both the kids are working on speeches for school. Hannah is still mass producing greeting cards to sell and the proceeds are going to the SPCA.
THE KITTENS SAD LIFE
I found half a birds wing on the floor in the kitchen on Friday. Not sure if it was a "catch your own" or just carrion. Not sure who was responsible but I think it was Pandora.
Ollie has been waking us up to let them outside about 5:30am and it is getting to be an issue. I am going to sleep far too early at night, nearly as early as Diana. He woke us up about three times last night. He could become an outside cat real soon.
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