LOCAL NEWS
I am getting more and more frustrated with the sort of thing that is continued to be considered news. We get this continuing trail of items where they introduce an item, cross to someone who can't hear with pregnant pauses between them and the studio, just to get a garbled version of what the anchor just said. And even the canned stuff if not a lot better. I can't think of any way of remedying the problem. Ignoring them just doesn't seem to work. In the last week we have been told how many cars get stolen and never recovered, how many other crimes go unpunished (I am sure it is just as bad overseas, if not worse), and how police are busy catching speeding motorists. Meanwhile, still no arrest for the murdered twins (I think that is three weeks new). Not even the opposition are taking advantage of this apparent incompetence and lack of direction.
The case of the boy who dropped a concrete lump on a car, killing a man, continued to run this week. Despite the boy admitting he dropped the rock, he argued that he was not guilty of murder. Given that this, to my mind, meant the trial surrounded interpretation of the law, we still got witness testimony and the girlfriend of the dead man telling the jury how horrible it was. What a waste of court time. In the end he was found not-guilty of murder, then came news he had thrown projectiles previously and missed.
A train driver stopped traffic at a level crossing while he bought himself a pie for lunch. No traffic could pass for 20 minutes. An impressive bit of ignorance and selfishness.
There's been flooding in lower North Island, not as bad as about four years ago. Also been snow, again.
A New Zealander has been hurt whilst running with the bulls in Pamplona. He will live. The bull is seeking counselling.
In a custody battle (quite literally) a man had a knife inserted in the front of his face on an unplanned basis (like across the front, behind his nose). Not pretty. The handle broke off and left a six inch blade installed. It was removed far more carefully.
Interesting research by some agency and encouraged by someone called Meat and Wool Innovation shows chicken is full of campylobacter and making people sick. Given that this agency is sponsored by those selling beef, lamb, and pork, it isn't entirely surprising. However, there are some valid points made. They were saying frozen chicken is safer, because the freezing and then cooking tends to wipe out the bacteria.
With debate continuing about arming police with tazers, they pepper sprayed a five year old girl during a domestic disturbance. Not sure why the girl was getting in the way, but not a good look for the police.
WORLD NEWS
A New Zealander who was a renegade MI6 agent has been arrested in France. It's all far too intriguing for New Zealand to cope with and the press to cover adequately.
A Newcastle woman suffered a stroke and now speaks with a Jamaican accent. This is called Foreign Accent Syndrome, and there is a variation where immigrants start speaking in the local accent called Local Accent Syndrome. What a load of bollocks, how can you take medical people seriously with this sort of thing?
REAL SPORT
Sorry, but here is some of the detail from the PanPac Tournament
Waitak 14A vs QEII won 12-9 but were 1-5 down at one point
Waitak 14A vs Maranui won 6-4
Waitak 14A vs North Sport Blue won 9-3
Waitak 14A vs Rotorua won 12-0
Waitak 14A vs Marist Red won 6-5
They came from behind twice, in the first and last games. It has been tense stuff. They play in a semi-final today and a final tomorrow (with luck). Rory has scored about four goals, including last goal in last game. Playing very well, working very hard. Whole team has improved over tournament.
SPORT
The semi-finals were quite good, I thought. The Germans were pretty unlucky in a way, but they thumped the Portuguese in the 3rd/4th match. I don't agree that they should call the 3rd/4th match meaningless. It is far more meaningful than the last games in pool play where the teams going through are already known.
The All Blacks beat the Wallabies 32-12 in Christchurch, I am not sure there was a lot of interest, the World Cup has been way more interesting.
If you don't know Italy beat France in the Final on penalties then you must be living under a rock.
MY SAD LIFE
Both the children stayed at other houses Tuesday night. Our house seemed very quiet, peaceful. There was much less dirty dishes and dirty laundry Wednesday morning.
The Goodins have returned, they came along to watch Rory's game on Friday night at Millennium. Paul came too, we both took photos.
Gavin came and constructed lasagne on Wednesday. Paul came too, and we played monopoly with the kids. Was kind of fun. Gavin disappeared the next day, although he did call for instruction on lasagne on Saturday, so we know he is still alive.
It's hard to say what else has happened this week. Don't really feel like I've had time for anything, beyond water polo.
HOW DO YOU KEEP AN IDIOT IN SUSPENSE
Well, finally, I will spill the beans on my little surprise. It's not that exciting, really. Today is the 10th anniversary of this email. I have ten whole years worth of weekly emails. Now, I am not sure you are ready for a "Ten years ago" thing every week (nor am I sure that I am). It only went to Paul and Koos, and was not very long (about seven lines).
TEN YEARS AGO
Ruapehu was erupting, the All Blacks beat Australia (Michael Jones scored the first try and we won $60 when he did as TAB had just started sports betting). Gavin was looking for an agent to sell his book (Hmmmm).
Not sure that was worth the wait, really.
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