LOCAL NEWS
An altercation between teenagers at a primary school and the husband of a teacher resulted in the man whacking them with the handle of a tomahawk to drive them off. Rumours exist that he was buzzing on P but frankly I applaud his actions as too many kids misbehave because of the lack of consequences. These teens had been ignoring trespass notices and terrorising people at the school for quite a while.
An accused rapist who carried on for four hours, reckoned it was consensual. Doesn't explain why he made her have two showers to remove evidence, does it? I don't think his story holds water.
A youth dived into the Waikato river to evade police and either succeeded or drowned. No proof exists either way as yet.
The introduction of Kiwi Saver, the voluntary government assisted pension scheme, began on 1 July. Bit slow off the mark but let's see what happens.
Not a good weekend for young children. A three year old was run over by a bulldozer, another young child was found dead in a back yard. A third baby died after being scalded in the shower by water from a wetback (they seem to get water too hot and people don't notice).
Weekend road toll was nasty, six died in a non-holiday weekend.
WORLD NEWS
Britain upgraded prime ministers this week and had terror attacks failing all over the show. The worst was the announcement of the Spice Girls getting together.
Meanwhile they had a concert for Princess Diana, ten years after she died. Hasn't Britain suffered enough without having Duran Duran and P Diddy play their music?
REAL SPORT
Despite heavy rain on Friday night, soccer was still on. It eased by game time and although we had a we pitch we had no rain. The opposition was from Bucklands Beach, they had not won a game yet in the championship round. We were 2-0 up at half time and 4-0 at full time.
The really big news was the other two good teams in our league played each other, and the team we thought were the weaker of the two won 3-2. We were scheduled to play the team that won last week (when Hannah was sick, so I am very glad we didn't) and we play the team that lost weekend after next (no game middle week of holidays).
Rory has made the U16 A-team at club, as a floater which means he will play in the B-team too so he gets more game time. This is a good result as he has another year in U16 after this one and the experience will certainly improve his game. He didn't seem overjoyed but I think it is a good thing.
SPORT
Team New Zealand won the third race then lost the fourth, and the fifth, and the sixth. One more and it's all over.
The All Blacks lost to Australia 15-20.
The Black Sticks (Men's Hockey) came from in front to lose to Argentina in the final in a shootout. They were ahead 2-0.
The Warriors were the only bit of good news with their third win on the trot, after six losses in a row.
MY SAD LIFE
Went to midnight showing of Transformers with Rory and Cassidy on Wednesday night, was a bit of a wreck the next day. Made Rory go to school. Cassidy had a test and didn't show up at all. Wimp. Cassidy isn't my favourite person, he headbutted Maddie (our centre back) and fractured her nose. Not a good look seeing they are an item.
We had a few minor failures around the house this week. The roof leaked (was fixed Thursday), the toaster became a semi toasted, the frypan was agreed to be a non-non-stick frypan, and the bed was falling apart. Diana and I repaired the bed on Sunday. We haven't replaced the toaster so we swap the toast over for the second run, takes ages. It is on the list of things to do.
Rory and Hannah went with the Goodin children to separate movies in separate theatres on Sunday. Rory and Thomas have both seen the Transformers movie twice already.
The kids are on holiday for next two weeks, they are going shooting today with Bambi.
Yana was due to sprog on Sunday, I think. No news yet, Gavin has his mother in law visiting to help around the house.
Diana has been working full days but gets a couple of days off around the weekend so we may try to go somewhere for a quick break.
Linda's daughter Jen was in the winning cheerleading team in a competition in Brisbane.
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