Today is the world day of prayer. Say one for my sanity, if you get the chance.
Sorry about the dodgy stuff…..
LOCAL NEWS
In another example of Darwinian evolution in action, a teenage boy crawled under his house, played with petrol, and burned himself to death. I think he was sniffing the petrol, and it was so good he decided to have a cigarette afterwards. Either way, he did the gene pool a favour.
Harmeet Sooden returned home. The exclusive interview arranged by his family was ignored by him and all bets were off. They got to keep the handout and he stayed out of the public eye.
Tony Blair visited us. And his wife was there to lend a hand and keep an eye on him. I don't think she charged anyone this time (she charged $100k or something for a speech at a charity dinner last time she was here).
That bloody awful rape case is over. Shame the coverage isn't.
Testing of soil in Auckland play centre's has found the soil to be contaminated with nasties. Rory went to one of them. Not sure what we are supposed to do about it, but we don't exactly have time to consider it right now.
Russell Crowe has been here this week, no reported phone throwing but in trouble because he was smoking in a place of work.
WORLD NEWS
A New Zealand and English team have identified what they say is the source of the Nile. It is now a hundred odd miles longer than previously thought. They got one of their guys shot by Ugandan rebels on the way.
REAL SPORT
Rory's Junior team lost 9-12 on Friday night. Despite only having one good eye, Rory got quite a few goals, maybe 6 or 7. I missed the game because of work.
Hannah had her intermediate water polo trial on Saturday. There were a ton of kids (about 40), I don't know for sure yet, but I think she is going to be in team 1. This may not be a good thing. The standard of the team is not that high (but it is early in the season yet). I think she will probably be quite a strong player in the team, she is fitter than most. I think the girls are better than the boys at the moment.
Hannah's soccer team had their first game of the season. They played reasonably well, Hannah was defending and did a great job although she isn't happy about defending. They lost 1-2, was 1-1 for a while. Both the other teams goals were against the run of play, but it is only grading so not the end of the world.
Rory's Senior team were playing Kings B on Sunday. It was very tight, only 1-1 at the end of the second quarter. Things picked up in the third, Rory equalised with a showy backhand goal at 3-3, but whacked his hand into an opposition head on the follow through. He asked to be subbed and stayed off the rest of the game, they lost 3-6. Then I took Rory to the A&E, again.
SPORT
The Blues enjoyed a rare win over the Bulls. Hurricanes lost to the Crusaders, who have now beaten all other New Zealand teams. Crusaders are almost winning the competition at the moment (Waratahs have one more point, but have played one more game and lost one, Crusaders are unbeaten).
The Warriors have won a second game, they are now on zero points for the season.
Man Utd won, Chelsea drew, but are still seven points clear at the moment. Chelsea have a handy lead, but Man Utd have their eye on them. Not sure you could call it exciting yet. Arsenal thumped Villa 5-0. Newcastle had a much-need win over Spurs 3-1.
Hong Kong Sevens were this weekend. Fiji beat New Zealand in the semi-final. England won.
MY SAD LIFE
My Friday afternoon was ruined with a phone call from Rory's school (I always hate getting phone calls from school) to say that he had been hit in the eye with the projectile from a pen-gun (you know, you pull a bic pen apart and you can shoot the plastic knob end off with the spring). So I had to get from Glendowie to Western Springs. En route, I rang the doctor, asked whether they were busy or I should go to the A&E. They said I should go to them. Half an hour after we got there, I asked what our chances of being seen were, and they told me they were really busy and only had one doctor. I subtly pointed out that perhaps they could have told me than an hour earlier and left to go to the A&E clinic, which was practically empty. One of the forms I had to fill out was his details and that of his mother, apparently the father is not important to the ACC. His eye was fine, perhaps just a little scratched, and we got some gunk and left.
Saturday was surprisingly free of medical personnel.
Sunday afternoon, I had to take Rory out to do refereeing at the pool, so I did my lengths (in record time, 28 minutes for 50), went to the gun show next door (which was not that exciting), and mooched around Henderson in the rain for an hour and a half. Then as we left the pool we saw Diana and Hannah arrive for her training. On the way to the pool, I said to Rory that I would quite like to go home after the game and watch a nice movie.
Later on Sunday, post injury, we went back to the A&E. I had to fill out one less form (because he hadn't got any new mothers since Friday). We saw the same doctor as on Friday, who resisted the urge to say "I told you so" (he did say Rory shouldn't play water polo for the weekend, and let's be honest, he was right). We then had to go to another A&E that had its radiology section open, got an x-ray. We then went to the A&E next door to the x-ray to find out what happens next. It was broken, the index finger metacarpal, below the knuckle. He was put in a temporary plaster and we were given instructions for today. He is going to the specialist unit at Middlemore this morning. Diana has had to take the day off work to take him. He could be out of water polo for six weeks, which could hurt his preparation for the Pan Pacs.
It is my business partner Peter Smith's birthday today.
I have forgotten to mention that Katie broke her arm, I think nearly two weeks ago now. Told Diana last night. Oops.
Koos is still in Hong Kong, I think, I wonder if he went to the Sevens?
Oh, and when we did finally make it home, after 7pm, we did watch a nice movie. Kill Bill 1. The bride pulls someone's eye out with her hand (sorry, but she does).
Well, better go. I hope everyone had a better week than Rory did.
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