Possibly a bit light but have to leave early for work.
LOCAL NEWS
Big fuss about some New Zealand wool being used for tennis balls in the US Open. What a load of bollocks.
Plenty of heavy rain continued. Big landslips in Kelson, Upper Hutt this week due to rain. Flooding in Christchurch.
900 people have got in trouble for trying to save moment by registering their cars as hearses. If they are fined it will cost a lot more than their saving.
An unnamed former Warrior and Kiwi has been charged with sexual violation. Whoever he is, he maintains his innocence.
Twin three month old girls died in Wellington on Sunday. There still has been no arrest in the Kahui twins case. It is beyond bizarre.
WORLD NEWS
Dean Jones learned that the microphone is always on when he referred to a South African player as a terrorist during a commentary in a cricket test. Some things you should always say with the voice in your head.
We got the continuous stream of updates and news and latest details on the arrests in the UK and the liquid explosives. I think very soon people won't be allowed on planes to the US.
REAL SPORT
Only real sport this weekend, apart from training, was Hannah's soccer. I didn't really enjoy the lead up to the game. There was a cock-up in field scheduling so we started half an hour late. The opposition parents were particularly stroppy. They gave Rory a ton of crap when he refereed in the first half, and then a parent told me off for telling Rory not to take any notice of them. Apparently, they were allowed to harass the ref but I wasn't allowed to give him support, which was complete bollocks. I was not happy. It doesn't happen a lot but some parents haven't a clue about what kids sport is about (although it probably shouldn't be too different to what professional sport is about).
They were playing the team below them on the table. The coach changed a few things around, put Hannah in defence and a girl who defends a lot towards the front. They had to defend pretty hard, but they got to put some pressure on the other team as well. They were 1-0 up at half time, and turned in to the wind and up hill. Much more defending in the second half. Hannah was very resolute, managed to clear a certain goal on the line. Finally, the full time whistle went, full time 1-0. Not completely sure but think they can't do worse than come fourth in the championship now.
One more game in the season for them.
SPORT
No tri-nations rugby this weekend, not sure why.
The Warriors won a game but nobody cares, they can't make the final.
The new rugby provincial championship continues. Waikato beat Canterbury 36-22, Tasman thumped Manawatu 43-0, Auckland beat Taranaki 29-3, North Harbour beat Bay of Plenty 25-7.
MY SAD LIFE
There have been reports of random drive-by prunings in Pt Chevalier. It appears that my mother can leave no rose unpruned.
Went mad this weekend, bought a couple of shelves and tried to reorganise my office a bit. Rory helped, but wasn't keen on it. Took a fair amount of motivation. We made some good progress but I have quite a bit left to do.
Big week for the kids, Hannah made the speech finals at school, a good result for her. I went along on Wednesday and watched the finals. Hannah came fourth, the only year 7 to get a place. She had a tough act to follow with Rory winning two years running.
On Tuesday we got garbled news from Rory that he had won a medal in the University of NSW English exam. This is a pretty good result. High Distinction is awarded to top 1% of results, medals to selected people in that group. There is a ceremony in Wellington on 5th December. The text he sent misspelled Wellington. He says it was only a text, but really.
The soccer rep team people were pretty good about Hannah pulling out, she should have an opportunity to go into the Centre of Excellence first term of next year.
Diana went to Sheep World with her class on Friday, she said it was better than you might think (it had to be from where I sit).
We had dinner with Paul, Gavin, and Yana on Saturday night. Diana hadn't seen Yana since she returned, although I popped in on Monday night this week when picking Rory up from the pool.
The Goodins seem to be coping with their commute to Pukekohe.
MY SAD WIFE
She's been stuck with me for 18 years as of yesterday (she made me say it that way round).
Send sympathy cards (in the form of chocolate) to:
Rob Clarke
Pt Chevalier
Auckland
New Zealand
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