LOCAL NEWS
A woman was in court this week having spent $32,000 of company money on personal items including a home theatre system and a vibrator. Not sure you would want everyone to know you had purchased a home theatre system.
The discovery of a body in the anchor locker of a fishing boat was not considered suspicious. Been there for quite some time. Interesting. Did the body crawl in there on it's own? Did nobody notice the person was missing?
The elusive Lord Lucan was being sort after in Marton in the North Island. If he did live there, he had plenty of time to scram because it was in the news before the detective got there. Later the same day it was pretty clear it wasn't him.
A third person has been arrested in the case of the murder of a convicted paedophile, who's son apparently is continuing the family hobby. Nice.
On Wednesday at 12 minutes past 12 there was 3 minutes silence for Nia, the abused three year old. Not sure what it achieved.
A dingo stole our Hone. This was the headline in one witty paper, after MP Hone Hawawera went walkabout from Melbourne to visit his aboriginal cuzzies in the Northern Territory (this is the guy that called John Howard a racist b@st@rd) while on the same subject.
Yet another example of Darwinian evolution over the weekend when a 17 year old brain surgeon tried to evade police at 180km/h because death was better than getting a speeding ticket. The other three morons in the car were not Darwinian contributors, and are now costing the health system for repairs.
WORLD NEWS
It is 30 years since Elvis died, if he really died of course. Sales of fast food have grown in the last 30 years, so who can tell.
The Queen is suing the Beeb. Two institutions at each others throats. Interesting.
REAL SPORT
No intermediate polo on Friday night, and no club games, so we had a free Friday, quite unusual occurrence for much of the year.
On Saturday, we think it was Hannah's last soccer game for the season but we don't know for sure. It was the third attempt at playing Waitakere, the team on top of the table. We looked to have three of our regular team away, but one came down from Whangarei just for the game. We got a goal about mid-way through the first half, but just couldn't score again. Late in the second half the other team equalised and the final score was 1-1, not a bad result really.
Straight from soccer, we went to water polo. Rory played for the U16A team against Waikato, as a bench player, but got some reasonable game time. He scored two goals, and a third was disallowed (for not crossing the line, but I have a photo that shows it did). It was very good that he scored a couple, gives him a bit of cred with the rest of the team.
Hannah had a club U14 polo training in between the games, and she spent a lot of time in goal. Not sure about that idea at all.
Then the U16B team played the U16C team, a game that was not expected to be close, and it wasn't. Not sure how many goals Rory scored, but a good five at least. Final score was 19-3.
SPORT
Auckland beat Waikato 47-26 but was struggling at times. Wellington beat Manawatu 37-7.
The Warriors managed another win against a team with a very poor win record away from home, beating the Titans 30-6.
First round of the premiership, Chelsea beat the Brummies 3-0, Man Utd had a 0-0 with lowly Reading. Liverpool beat Villa 2-1, Sunderland beat Spurs 1-0.
The New Zealand Women's soccer team lost 1-6 to the USA, who are likely contenders for the World Cup title.
MY SAD LIFE
Today is our 19th wedding anniversary. One year until the big one. Crikey. We had lunch together on Friday because Diana is working today. And no, Brett, I didn't get her any present and nor she I (to save you asking).
It was a funny week for me, being my first in the new office. The dynamic is quite different. Got a fright from a meter reader one day, a funny little African man in a red outfit popping up just behind my monitor. Not entirely sure I like it, and I suspect the school holidays are going to be diabolical because I will be exposed to considerably more noise than I was in the sleep out.
Following on from her day in the garage, Pandora spent the night in the hot water cupboard last night.
I understand Heidi and Ad are here in New Zealand at the moment from Holland. We hope to get the chance to say hello.
Rory tried to sit his test for the driving learners permit this week, and due to woeful bureaucracy and miserable service, he was not allowed to. I shan't go in to the detail as I have heard the story so often I can't bear repeating it.
Failed to mention meeting Maria last week, I think. We saw Gavin, Yana, and Maria. She was pretty boring, but babies are. And when they aren't boring they are usually crying or needing one end or other wiped.
Hannah topped her class in the speech competition last week, and has semi-finals tomorrow. Meanwhile, Rory had to prepare the opening arguments for a debate on legalising marijuana over the weekend. I shouldn't have said the homework hadn't been that bad, I was wrong.
Rory was reprimanded for "bullying" at school. This consisted of insulting some girl whilst she was not in the room. Not entirely sure that it constitutes bullying, because I suspect the victim needs to be aware of it to really count. Nevertheless, I do not approve of it. Having said that, plenty of people indulge in various forms of character assassination whilst someone is not present. I have one client, where they do it to each other all the time, it is quite bizarre.
Seems very odd that the soccer season could be over already. Usually very ready for it to be over. Not sure how I feel right now.
Our phone and internet have been down for the last 24 hours. Not happy. Current expectation is by 7pm tonight. Which is also what we were told yesterday. I love customer service.
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