LOCAL NEWS
A murder case from 26 years ago was re-opened after the receipt of a letter on the subject.
Another case, about two years old, also got new information, the murder of farmer Jack Nicholas.
And yet another murder case was opened, literally, when a suitcase floating in the Waitemata Harbour was found to contain a body. It was a 19 year old Chinese English language student.
Nasty accident on Southern Motorway on Friday, one person died when his car was sandwiched between two large 4wds in a nose-to tail that involved about seven cars.
Big news all week was the electronic bank card skimming. It is thought a pair of Russians entered the country, and left just as their identity was becoming public. They seem to have read around 4,000 cards. Makes New Zealand look pretty bad, to be honest. A technological backwater, at best.
Somebody wants cats limited to one per household, and they should be chipped. Sometimes I can relate to the one per household bit. Don't think I mentioned the pile of feathers, a wing, and about a third of a body that I found on the bedroom floor recently. Ollie was the culprit, I am sure.
WORLD NEWS
The furore over Tiger Woods saying he "played like a spaz" has been quite strange. The fact that many newspapers changed the word to something else, despite supposedly quoting him, was even stranger.
REAL SPORT
No real Sport to report this week, due to holidays, etc.
SPORT
The Blues beat the useless Force (known as the spent Force) 39-8. That is three wins in a row for them but they are still well down the table. The Crusaders won, again. Hurricanes beat Highlanders and Chiefs beat the Stormers, I think. Waratahs beat the Brumbies.
Coach of the hapless soccer Knights, John Adshead, has resigned. We've been through the usual bollocks in the news about pressure to resign and how he was committed for three years, etc. They won about 1 game the whole season and were cold, motherless last. It was rubbish.
Australia prevailed over Bangladesh but it was a close thing, they only had three wickets left.
New Zealand is playing South Africa and is actually 50 runs ahead on first innings, which was completed by end of day two. Jacob Oram and Daniel Vettori scored the bulk of the runs.
I think there was soccer but I haven't found out about it.
MY SAD LIFE
It was nice having a short week, and another one this week and the week after too (we get Anzac Day next week).
The kids are on holiday so no homework which is nice.
Tuesday was Big Nana's funeral. It was a relatively subdued affair, with the after-match function at Tony and Marion's house. Saw a few people there that I haven't seen for a while. I wore a tie. Ross didn't.
On Wednesday Rory got his plaster cast replaced with a fibreglass one. He can swim now, and life is easier with showers and things.
Went to the Easter Show with Bambi, Sasha, and Paul on Friday. The sideshows are beyond belief, they are so lame and such a rip off. The concept of charging people more than the value of the prize, for a low chance to win the prize, and that the prize is something they rarely actually want (and if they win it, it may not make it home, or it will get moved and dusted for a couple of years and then thrown out) seems utterly ridiculous. And yet people pay $5 for the chance to throw a ball at a pile of skittles (or whatever, usually over in less than 60 seconds).
The Goodin household continues to have excitement. Thomas fell over and chipped his front teeth on Saturday. Caitlin continues to visit Doctors on a regular basis.
Another thing I forgot to mention last week.
Rory's Social Studies teacher felt that a broken hand wouldn't stop him from writing. Was an interesting concept. Apparently his training in social studies qualified him to diagnose medical conditions. Because he had been able to write when he broke his arm in three places, this meant that Rory could also write with a broken hand. He proceeded to call him a "malingerer" and wrote the word on the board and had a class discussion about it. As you can imagine, we were less than impressed. Given that any attempts to write by Rory would cause more damage, the concept was quite ridiculous. We speculated as to whether the teacher was a graduate of the David Benson-Pope school of pupil humiliation. At least Rory is thick-skinned enough to handle it.
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