I think a lot of what has happened this week slipped past me, I've been busy.
LOCAL NEWS
Father of the decade, Chris Kahui, accused of the manslaughter of his twin sons, has breached bail conditions three times and will now await his trial in jail. The man is clearly an utter fool, regardless of what else he might be.
We seem to be having a run of finance companies fail, lost count of how many. However, the downstream impact is that nobody wants to invest with these guys so the ones remaining have no money to lend and are more at risk. Not great.
Bit of a fuss over night vision goggles used by air rescue services that look like they may have been stolen from US military.
The guy made it out of the cave, took less time than they thought and he was only 2.2km into the system. He will be fine.
School kids in Wellington have been popping to a student bar for a beer at lunch time. I suppose it depends how many beers as to how bad this is.
A fight erupted in a soccer match between New Brighton and Chinese United, sounds like it got well out of hand, one player broke his ankle during the game. Eek.
WORLD NEWS
The Greek tragedy continued, although it's gone quiet so it must be sorted now.
Andrew Johns was found with one ecstasy tablet and has now confessed to using drugs for ten years. Doesn't sound like they were performance enhancing though.
The APEC meeting is happening in Sydney, it seems quite bizarre with some exceedingly onerous security measures.
Equine flu continues to be an issue in Australia.
REAL SPORT
Hannah played for the composite team on Friday night in goal and helped them to a win, 6-4 over my Ponsonby Piranhas. Hannah then played in goal for Rory's team, the Marlins, but Rory was lame and not there.
Rory played another U18 game, against Northsport A, they lost 1-12 but that was expected, was a better score than I thought.
On Sunday Rory played for 16A against Rotorua in the morning and they won 15-1. He then played for 16B in the afternoon against Northsport and they won 10-4.
SPORT
Mahe Drysdale won gold for third time in rowing world champs in single sculls. The Swindell twins got silver. New Zealand rowers got three golds and two silvers.
Taranaki squeaked a 22-20 win over Northland, Canterbury removed the Ranfurly Shield from Waikato 33-20, BOP scored their first win over Tasman. Auckland beat Hawke's Bay 38-11.
The rally of New Zealand was on over the weekend but really didn't hit the radar. Some foreign guy won.
The Warriors beat the Panthers 24-20 earning a home semi in the playoffs.
Liverpool beat Derby 6-0 (very big score), Fulham drew 3-3 with Spurs, Man Utd managed a feeble 1-0 win over Sunderland. Villa beat Chelsea 2-0, big news.
The rugby world cups starts this week. I can't say I have been looking forward to it.
MY SAD LIFE
Forgot to mention the Granny Bread incident at water polo a week ago. Mum came to watch the polo, and brought a loaf of her home made bread, called Granny Bread by the kids. The first reaction from me, Rory, and Diana (all separately) was "keep Chase away from it" (she really likes it). Rory absconded with it and used it to motivate his intermediate polo team during their game, a game in which they were a goal down before they came back to win 4-1. Who needs lollies and junk food when you can bribe kids with fresh wholemeal bread?
The U14A Girls team was announced for club polo, Hannah is in the team as the goalie, she is pleased. I think the time for deciding which activity comes first is upon us.
This week, the focus was on dancing, Hannah had her jazz exam on Sunday and three other preparatory things on Saturday. She wasn't too happy about the exam beforehand, in fact quite the opposite, but she seemed exceedingly happy afterwards on Sunday, not sure if it was because it went well or because it was over. She has a tap dancing exam next weekend. She's not so worried about that one.
The Berocca tablet did not completely dissolve, and interestingly (well, it is interesting in my world) it would not dissolve when put into a glass of water. It was like the outside had formed a protective layer by partially dissolving.
Diana worked out this morning that we had ten things to have people at this weekend, between polo and dancing (and one party for Hannah). Ten. Is that all? Rory has a game in Tauranga this Saturday.
Rory has done more driving this week. Diana didn't handle a session with him at all well, and Rory suggested to her that the warranty on the seat belt might be under threat if she continued to twist it quite that hard as she clung to it. I took him about three times. He drove to training on Monday night at MAGS (about three ks away), we took a spin around side streets around us (and Rory stopped in the middle of the road to look at a parked Maserati, as you do), and another trip to Unitech to practice parking and things. He's getting there.
Organisation for Hannah's birthday, now less than two weeks away, is woeful. There is none. Ideas have been flying around but no date has been set.
Father's Day wasn't really much of a day, although Diana did make me breakfast before we left for the pool at 8:30am on Sunday morning. Didn't see Hannah until about 11:30.
There should be more, but that will have to do for now.
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