LOCAL NEWS
A teenager who stole a pet budgie from a primary school and microwaved it to death has been jailed. Not sure why he wasn't put in for five minutes on "high" to see how it felt.
Gareth Morgan, father of trademe millionaire Sam Morgan, has announced he is going to donate $47 million of his windfall to charity.
The new Governor General has been announced. He is Anand Satyanand, a Fijian Indian who has been a judge and ombudsman. He replaces Dame Silvia Cartwright (who is no relation to Hoss and Little Joe).
A man ran from police near Mt Wellington, escaped over the back fence onto the Southern Motorway. He was hit by a couple of cars before an ambulance finished him off.
The Fire Service made a press statement the next morning that they felt left out of the incident with the fugitive, and that other emergency services under value the Fire Service. Secondly, they suggested that the Ambulance service was not playing fair by creating their own customers to increase the need for their services.
A burglar in Rotorua has had a rough time. Whilst trying to escape the scene of a burglary, he punched a child (nice guy), over the fence he had an altercation with the neighbour, next door he was then attacked by a dog, over yet another fence he crawled under a house, through broken glass and got himself a few nice cuts. I think there was a fair amount of karma happening there.
A Northland man was found crushed under the road roller he had been operating. How he managed to get out of the drivers seat and under it is not known.
WORLD NEWS
I think the passing of Gene Pitney has been under-reported. As much as I don't like much of the style of his music his songs were often cleverly executed. And without him many people would never have heard of Tulsa.
GW seems to want to Nuke Iran. This can't be true. Nuking someone has not happened for a very long time, I think it would be a bad move.
There was something else that happened, but I cannot remember what it was. Early onset Alzheimer's perhaps (although Rory would say "early?).
REAL SPORT
Hannah has made team one for her school water polo team. Still not convinced that it is a very strong team.
Hannah's soccer team was playing Three Kings on Saturday, always a pretty handy team, they are a big club with good coaching staff. The girls played well, but conceded two goals with mistakes. The other team didn't actually score on their own. They nearly got one or two back but couldn't quite manage it, final score 0-2. Hannah played very well, very solid, fast, committed. We were very happy with her efforts. I refereed the second half, ran pretty hard, was knackered afterwards. And sore the next day.
Rory refereed Flippa Ball finals on Sunday, he seemed happy. Diana saw him refereeing (I have observed before). He certainly appears to be in his element. Haven't heard how Rory's school water polo teams did over the weekend.
SPORT
The Crusaders beat the Waratahs in a top of the table clash, winning 17-11. The Waratahs were top but because the Crusaders have already had their bye they were behind by one point. Now they are top. The Blues managed to squeeze out a win over the Stormers, the Chiefs drew with the Bulls 26-26, Highlanders just managed a win over the Force 25-22, the Force haven't won a game yet. The good thing about it being 14 now is that the Blues being 10th doesn't sound as bad as it did with 12.
Bangladesh are at 355/5 against Australia, their best result ever in a test match, will be interesting to see how it plays out.
Man Utd beat the Arse 2-0, Newcastle snuck a 2-1 win over Middlesbrough, Chelsea thumped West Ham 4-1, Liverpool got a 1-0 win over Bolton.
MY SAD LIFE
Brett had his birthday on Friday. It was the golden anniversary of his birth. I popped over to see him on Sunday, and made room in his fridge for him by drinking a couple of his beers. He is living in a nice flat in Westmere amongst some mega-houses. I saw Allan and Jacqui there too, Jacqui is off to China again (this time with Nicola and Emma for a holiday) on Wednesday.
My mother is off to Ayers Rock and Sydney for the next three weeks. I may have to learn how to make chocolate pudding.
Diana took Rory to Middlemore, as planned, on Monday. They were there for six and a half hours. The surgeons spent around ten minutes looking at the x-ray but didn't actually look at Rory's hand. Medicine is just plain weird. It is a week since I have been to an A&E.
Kathryn's grandmother, Nana, died on Friday. She was not in great shape, but her passing is sad nevertheless. I used to get on pretty well with her, she reminded me a bit of my Great Aunt (Dell, who was a favourite of mine despite her poor record with cats, who died in about 1990). Her funeral is Tuesday.
Friday was not a great day in the Clare family. Trixie, Tony and Marion's dog, didn't make it back from the vets. She was also getting on. When Rory was little he called her "fikiss".
And poor little Caitlin Goodin is back in a cast. So is Peter Smith's daughter who now has one to her armpit. And I forgot to mention that Marissa got stitches. What an accident-prone bunch of children.
Julie had a little off-road altercation with a tree in the car this week. Koos wants to borrow the Pajero. Am wondering if I should fit bull-bars first. Julie was shaken but not hurt seriously (although inconvenienced by whiplash). He returns from Hong Kong tomorrow.
Busy week for Hannah, we had to go see her perform in her school showcase thing on Thursday. She was up first, so we should have gone home early. Never have I seen Shakespeare so throttled as it was in the third and final act of the evening. Her soccer team was filmed for Studio 2 on Tuesday night, they will be on TV tonight I think around 4:30pm. She also had a movie night on Saturday night with four of her friends. What a noise. They seemed happy, I suppose.
Rory and I went swimming on Sunday while Hannah was doing training. He didn't actually swim, just eggbeated while I swam (it is what they do to stay afloat in water polo and sync swimming). He had to hold his right hand in the air, sometimes resting it on the top of his head. He was pretty happy to be back in the water, he gets a new cast on Wednesday, we are hoping for something that can get wet.
Well, last week was kind of weird. I missed a couple of things:
-when I was called about Rory and his eye at school, Diana was out at Muriwai with her class and the bus broke down, so they were late getting back. It meant I had to pick up Nanny from town, but I was near town anyway with Rory at the A&E, so it worked out.
-Rory had another story read out on the radio (we missed it, forgot about it) and scored another $150 for the privilege. He didn't seem to think that buying his parents dinner was a worthwhile use of funds. It was read by Wing, the Asian lady who thinks she can sing who was on Southpark once.
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