LOCAL NEWS
Bit of a storm in a teacup when an MP from the Maori Party referred to Australian Prime Minister as a "racist bastard" over the actions to get things under control with Aborigines in Northern Territory. Funnily enough, the quote included the word "bastard" but newsreaders just said the word "racist". Perhaps they already knew he was a bastard, I don't know.
Real storm up North, took out power lines all over. Lots of people without power for days. I thought perhaps Kathryn had snuck up there as it was -5 in Invercargill when she went there, so I was expecting some causal effect.
A frail granny stabbed an intruder with his own knife, which was pretty funny. Karma in action.
Pet food is bad for you - a man died when he was crushed by three tonnes of cattle feed.
The hostages in Nigeria were freed on Thursday, so all happy there. They have since come home to visit family but will be returning.
Sad story on Saturday when a train collided with a car, killing the two parents and the 5 year old daughter survived. Not sure why they didn't see the train coming.
An old car once owned by the family of the prime minister was sold on trademe for $5815 - nearly triple what someone bought it off her father for two years ago.
Ice is cramping the style of people jet boating near Queenstown - well duh. Why would you want to even consider jet boating when the water is that cold?
A New Zealander working security in Iraq died when his truck hit a mine.
WORLD NEWS
America appears to have woken up to the problem in Iraq. GW is starting to get a hard time and they are doing the maths about withdrawal and have realised the losses won't stop until they have all got home.
In Sydney, a guy went ape in a tank-like APC and took out seven cellphone repeater stations and a power substation. Love to see video footage of that.
The Beckhams arrived in LA. Oh dear. I can't see what it will do for football.
REAL SPORT
Only one game of soccer this weekend. We were missing a key player and one of our strikers was taken out with an ankle injury ten minutes into the game. We led for most of the match but just got soft in the end and lost 2-3. Hannah scored both goals. I think she has scored seven goals this season, which is very good, definitely more than she has scored in previous years put together.
I hear Katie also scored two goals on Saturday and got POD, and their team won.
SPORT
Board sailor Barbara Kendall has qualified for the Beijing Olympics for the fifth time. The grandmother of the New Zealand Olympic movement has won gold, silver, and bronze so far.
All Blacks beat Spring Boks 33-6 but it was a dubious achievement as the boks are resting most of their first line players.
The Silver Ferns beat Jamaica twice, by about 40 then about 20 goals.
The Warriors had a win over St George Illawarra (40-16 I think).
Four New Zealand rowing teams have won gold at a meet in Lucerne.
MY SAD LIFE
Mum has had some friends from soggy Kaeo visiting because an ex-neighbour was on his way out. I knew Roy Taylor when I was a young kid, and spent a bit of time with his two sons. I think Koos actually worked with Roy for a while when he was at varsity. Anyway, Roy died on Saturday.
The second week of the holidays wasn't quite so exciting for the kids. Hannah did go to Rainbow's End on Friday and after a few changes of plan ended up catching a bus back to civilisation from Manukau through Otahuhu and Otara and finally to downtown about 6:45pm. They are back at school today. Hannah did also make dinner twice this week. The risk of Rory ever making dinner is exceedingly low.
The movement from my office to Rory's room continues. We got some new shelves up on Monday and Wednesday and started moving some cabinets in. I still need some electrical stuff to be done, no phone yet. I am not sure he will be in there by next weekend, but I hope so.
We've all been sick on and off this week, Diana was out of action for a day, the kids were both unwell for a day or two, I finally succumbed yesterday. Not sure if I have improved yet, but will do some work today because if you feel like crap and the weather is awful, you might as well go to work.
Diana was surprised and upset when her slow cooker died on Saturday. The whole bottom of the ceramic pot-thing just came off, in a surprisingly even piece. It did explain the inexplicable leakages between the heating unit and the pot.
Well, apologies for the dullness of this weeks entry.
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