Lots of speech marks this week, sorry.
LOCAL NEWS
Children appear to be a little too money-hungry in Christchurch with four cases in last week of them getting a 20c piece stuck in their throat. They blame the new smaller money, but don't seem to understand that new 20c is about the size of the old 10c which was the same size as the old shilling. It's not like the new money is chocolate flavoured or anything. Slow news day.
New National Leader John Key gave his virgin state of the nation speech and I think he missed his chance to make an impression with people who might actually vote for him. He lays on this whole "welfare kid that made good" thing too often. He also wants the long term unemployed, generally considered to be unemployable in current economy, to get a job. I think they should all become MPs and Councillors, because I find it hard to believe they could do worse than those currently doing the job.
The naked body of a woman was found near a lay by close to Morrinsville in the Waikato. The story unfolded over a couple of days with post mortem results, notifying family, the family's surprise (funny how nobody seems to expect their loved ones to be found dead next to a rest area). She was such a loving person with a big heart. Then it turned out she was a "professional" (yep, loving, that's one word for it) and was on P, etc.
Big flap about putting a Maori flag on the harbour bridge. I say "a" Maori flag, not "the" Maori flag because there isn't actually one official one. Funny that the aboriginal flag gets recognised in Australia, and yet their treatment of aboriginals is considerably worse than what we did here.
Bit of a politically correct fuss when Eric Clapton (a recovered alcoholic) took offence when they sold a bottle of commemorative wine with his name on at his concert in New Zealand. Dude, get over it, it was at a winery. Were you expecting Pepsi?
The investigation into exam papers with "good one dick" and "you useless sack of poo" written on them found that a postal worker and former classmate had done the deed. New Zealand Post weren't too happy.
A boy was killed by a truck this week to ensure truck awareness continued.
A fire at a dental surgery killed a Korean woman in Henderson. Sounds like a domestic at work to me.
The Lahar was supposed to have broken out Thursday, now the "experts" say three weeks. They just look silly.
Two police officers apparently had sex outside a police station in Christchurch after work while somewhat inebriated. Police are investigating. There are trying to find out:
A) were they locked out of the station?
B) were all the cars out on patrol?
C) did they drive home afterward?
Despite them being consenting adults, etc, the letter of the law states that a lewd act committed in public carries a maximum two years in jail. Awkward but pretty funny.
The African girl who died in Christchurch has resulted in a murder charge being laid against her 54 year old uncle. Nice.
WORLD NEWS
A couple of weeks after banning the Australian flag at Big Day Out in Sydney, they are banning Mexican Waves at the cricket. Banning beer would cause a revolution.
REAL SPORT
Rory played social league polo on Sunday. Scored a goal for another team but not for his own team, they had 6-6 draw.
SPORT
The Black Caps managed to beat the Poms by 58 runs. Lou Vincent and Jacob Oram are both doing well with the bat.
The Super 14 has begun, seems too early as usual. The Blues surprised everyone, including themselves, to beat the Crusaders 34-25 in Super 14 opener.
The Poms won a game of cricket on Friday. Even the Poms couldn't believe it. The Aussies weren't too happy either. Then the Aussies beat the Black Caps to regain their confidence.
Chelsea beat Charlton 1-0, Reading beat Man City 2-0, Liverpool had 0-0 bore, the Arse drew 1-1 with 'Borough. Fulham upset Newcastle 2-1. Man Utd beat Spurs 4-0.
Samoa won the Wellington Rugby Sevens, beating Fiji in the final. New Zealand sucked.
POT WATCH - Week 3
Scratching for news here, bit of a worry. Read up on nectarine germination and found out nectarines are basically a hairless peach. I have transplanted the hydroponic seed, sans coat (after reading about that bit too), into a pot. Nothing sprouted yet. I have nothing that tells me whether we should have seen movement yet.
MY SAD LIFE
I forget so many things I want to add to this. Usually about two or three within minutes of hitting send. This week, I wanted to mention the discovery of Rory's student ID card in Diana's glove box. That in itself wasn't particularly interesting other than the way he lost it. The funny bit was that another item in the glove box was a car air freshener thing that was too disgusting to use, which Rory deposited in there with a little too much vigour, and it cracked. This meant that anything in the glove box reeks of gay smelling air freshener, including Rory's ID card.
Another forgotten item was the swear jar, which we added a colour coded bead to every time anyone in the house used an agreed profanity (can't list them or spam filters will block email). The list was interesting, in terms of what was allowed and not allowed, very subjective and the source of considerable debate. The list sat on the coffee table and made quite disturbing reading, any list of dodgy words like that is particularly disturbing. Anyway, Rory lost by miles, and I think against everyone's expectations I either won or came a very close second to Diana. It was an interesting exercise for a number of reasons.
Our neighbour Jim turned 91 on Wednesday, he's fading a bit but not too shabby really.
Brett is playing with my mind by warning of random acts of postage.
Hannah went away for a few days, she is coming home today or tomorrow. House quiet. They return to school on Wednesday.
Saw Helen and Brian Monday night, as predicted. They are both well and engaged (both of them at the same time, coincidentally). I even noticed the ring (pretty unusual for me).
Spoke to Penny this week, had an interesting chat.
The kids went to Snow Planet on Wednesday with Paul. They seemed to enjoy themselves. Rory had sore shoulders for days (mostly to get out of swimming I think). Had dinner with Paul and his friends Stu and Glenda on Saturday.
Got myself new laptop this week as screen was dying on other one. Took a major amount of effort to get going, they always do. I hate computers. Not Vista though, you'd have to be mad. RRP here in New Zealand for a home edition is $500. That is beyond insane. Cheaper to buy a new PC.
The home repair stuff has slowed down a lot. Have done the kick board on the new cupboard but that's about all.
Rory finally got his CD of Wing reading his story. It is very funny. It was read on radio last year, we never heard it.
Rory and I are going to visit the Lothlorian factory today, I think, where Ross & Kath knit stuff. A lot of stuff.
AWFUL REALISATION
Swimming and seeing hairs (there were like four) down over your goggles is annoying, but considerably worse when you realise it must be eyebrow hair. Oh boy. And I thought ear hair was bad enough (no, I haven't seen that in my goggles yet).
That'll do for now.
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