LOCAL NEWS
The guy punched for being a child molester was named as being the former leader of the Christian Heritage Party, who is on record as being against children being taught contraception advice (ever) and legalising prostitution. Apparently molesting an eight year old girl is okay. Abusing a position of trust and power is bad enough, to make a public stand against other moral issues whilst doing worse yourself is unbelievable. The judge said this was at the low scale of offending.
Meanwhile a pair of boys at a Christchurch Christian boarding school have been suspended for six months after knocking on the door of a girls dormitory and then running away. I don't know how they can live with themselves.
McDonalds has closed its branch in Starship Children's Hospital. There was always controversy about it being there from the nutrition nazi viewpoint, but the reality is that young kids that are suffering do find comfort in something familiar like a happy meal. It's got to be better than a muesli bar out of a vending machine. In some ways I think the closure is a shame.
A guy called Terry Ryan, who has worked for thirty years on documenting those who are of a given Maori tribe, has been found to be completely non-Maori himself. He says he hasn't held himself out to be Maori but many disagree. It calls the entire register into doubt and could create quite a stink.
A jockey died when he fell from his horse during a race.
A bunch of pods of magnesium phosphide are floating in the water off the Northland coast, they fell off a passing ship. They can spontaneously combust.
A balcony collapsed at a hotel during a wedding reception, there were injuries but nothing fatal.
WORLD NEWS
The dwarf in the Pope suit was in pretty bad shape. However, I must say the Catholic Church needs to consider the marketing impact of saying "he is at the end of his long journey." Shouldn't he be about to go off and meet the Boss in person? News of his impending promotion was continuos and monotonous. He finally passed on Sunday morning NZ Time, he was leading news for ages on the news web sites. Now we look forward to news of who the new Pope will be, and we will be waiting for the blue smoke or whatever it is. The Herald dedicated the front four pages of the paper and another couple on the front of another section to him. I wonder how many pages would be dedicated to him if he came back? It is fair to say that people of my generation probably remember no other pope. However, they can, after all, just elect another one, it's not like a monarchy.
Meanwhile, the health of Prince Rainier of Monaco has become uninteresting.
The idiot in the Prince Charles suit just doesn't know when to shut-up. I am not sure he deserves to chair the committee of a local high class git club let alone be king of England. Insulting the press is never going to be ignored by the press.
Another earthquake in Indonesia gained attention for a couple of days but was bumped by the Pope.
REAL SPORT
Bit of a crisis with Rory. Water polo practice conflicts with soccer practice. Not sure what we will do, I know which comes first in his mind.
First game of the season on Saturday, teams a little rusty.
Thomas's team had a 2-2 draw, I think.
Didn't see Rory's team play, was always going to be tough against the team that is normally top of the table. They lost 0-5. Rory was captain for the game and took his job seriously.
Hannah's team (the Sirens) were up against a team we never played last year. We were all over them to start with, but couldn't get a goal in. Then the opposition had three players off side and the official referee didn't seem to think it was a problem and they scored. This got our girls pretty pissed off, they knew it was offside and I told them that the best solution to right the injustice was to score two goals. By half time, they had, and led 2-1 into the second half. It was one-way traffic in the second half, and final score was a massive 7-1 win for the Sirens. I think we scored seven goals the whole season last year. Everyone very pleased, awesome start to the season. Out of ten girls teams in the club, three won, one drew.
Big crisis in our house. Rory's water polo training conflicts with soccer training. Not sure what we will do, as I give soccer players the lecture about being committed to their sport. If given the choice, I know which Rory will choose. Tricky.
SPORT
Man Utd had a 0-0 draw with Blackburn, Arsenal won 4-1 over Norwich, Liverpool had a 1-0 win. Newcastle ended a 16 match unbeaten run with a 0-3 loss to Villa, remarkable in that they had three players red carded, the second two for fighting each other in the 82nd minute. Remarkably, Villa didn't score after Newcastle were down to 8 players.
A very good weekend for the NZ teams in the Super 12, the only one that lost was to another NZ team. The Blues reversed their bad run by beating the Brumbies 17-0, which I did not expect. The Crusaders ended the Waratahs unbeaten run 33-27. The Hurricanes beat the Chiefs 28-16, and Highlanders beat the Reds 23-16. Four NZ teams are in the top six. The SA teams didn't play.
The Warriors beat the Rabbitohs, their first win at home since July last year, which was over the same team.
Cricket test against Sri Lanka starts today, very weird that it is starting on a Monday.
MY SAD LIFE
Diana's car died again after getting fixed for $60 and we were without a second car for the second weekend in a row.
We saw "cheaper by the dozen" over Easter, and because of that I got the book out of the library. I read the book when I was quite young (say 10) and knew the film was nothing like the book. In fact, the only thing true to the book was that there were 12 kids and the title. The book is quite old, written in the 1940's, and is a bit trite, however it is really strange reading about "the attitudes of these youngsters" in a book set in the 1920s and the fact that these youngsters would probably all be very, very old now and very conservative.
I got my parking ticket cancelled, so the grovelly letter worked.
I got a letter from Soccer New Zealand saying that I have been deemed competent as a Junior Club Coach, which means I am qualified to do what I have done for bloody ages. I love the phrase "deemed competent"
Brett - Stalag 17, think about it upon your return to Perth.
It was Peter Smith's birthday on Sunday (my business partner). It's Brett's birthday on Thursday.
Had a coffee with Sander, Koos and Heidi's Dad, after soccer on Saturday. He came down and watched the girls for a while, the game was at Stanmore Bay. We met Sjaan's new kitty, Jasper (I think, I mean I think it was Jasper, we definitely met it and it is definitely a kitten, just not sure how to spell it's name).
Went with Hannah to a premier women's match, Hannah was a ball girl. The home team included a few players we know.
Rory's cat has been limping, she went to the vet twice, and it appears her left rear ankle was bitten. She is coming right now.
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