LOCAL NEWS
Terribly sad story this week about a mother of a ten month old who died of a blood clot, had the baby in bed with her, and smothered her son. Feel pretty sorry for the father, who was at work at the time. Adding to the tragedy, the photo of the woman and her baby was utterly hideous.
A rock with a swirl that supposedly looks like the virgin mary went on trademe for a ridiculous price. Who really cares.
Nasty freak accident where a 12 year old girl and her bike were lifted by a gust of wind in Christchurch into the path of a bus and killed. It must be that bus people are always concerned about. And of course, the deceased was an amazing person, vibrant and vivacious, etc, etc. Yeah, only the good die young, we've heard the song.
We also had a much-publicised punch up between cabinet minister Trevor Mallard and National MP Tau Henare after Henare made some comments about Mallard's personal life. Really pretty woeful.
A man's body was found in a burnt out car in a car park. The neighbours heard burnouts (as in squealing tyres, doing doughnuts). They made no puns about burnouts causing fire. They also didn't explore that someone else may have lit the car then did burnouts while it burned.
There seemed to be two or three light plane crashes and things this week, they all merged in to one. Some people died, some didn't, some were lucky, others weren't.
Auckland City Council are getting flak today for spending a million dollars on a new logo. To be fair, and I do not like councils, the million is probably mostly the cost of the new letterhead and other stationery which they aren't buying until they run out of existing so isn't really new cost.
A Christchurch man dragged a neighbour out of his burning house. He went in three times to retrieve him, and was in hospital for five hours afterwards.
Breakfast TV host Paul Henry described the coming cabinet reshuffle as rearranging the deckchairs, with old deckchairs and dodgy fabric. I like it.
We’ve continued to have stories about the terror raids and arrests. We've had protests and all sorts. It's rubbish.
WORLD NEWS
We got the updates on the California fire all week with the usual human uninterest stories and the politicians hugging the victims. Paul said it was pretty smoky.
A New Zealander is being chased by British police in relation to an attempt to defraud the bank of England out of $75 billion. Quite a lot, really.
Somebody has been trying to blackmail a low ranking British Royal but their attempt has been foiled.
REAL SPORT
Hannah scored the opening goal in the first game on Friday night, they made hard work of it but won 6-3. The Marlins, (the team Rory coaches), then just won their game 6-5 (they don't win many). Then Rangby won and the Piranhas (that I coach) won their game comfortably against Glen Eden 2. Good night, four wins from four.
On Saturday, Hannah had a Gold team club game. After the last one, a 10-0 loss, I was not looking forward to it. They were playing Marist A, and just won 4-3. Hannah did okay in goal.
Sunday Hannah played for Teal, she played half in goal and half in the water. They won 11-0 against Mountfort Park. Bit sad.
SPORT
There doesn't feel like much sport is happening at the moment.
The Kiwis lost to Great Britain 14-20 in the league test.
Liverpool drew 1-1 with Arsenal, Chelsea slapped Mac City 6-0 (ouch), Man Utd fared better than their neighbours beating Middlesbrough.
The Phoenix soccer team and Breakers basketball team both lost while playing in their respective Australian leagues.
MY SAD LIFE
For a while, on day three of Armageddon I was sitting there wondering what the heck I was doing there and so forth. Then I was needed for a couple of things (had to paint Matt's hair and eyebrows green, as you do), and I helped Hugh and Sarah on their stand for a bit, and so I was enjoying myself again. The kids finished with a bang, scoring a variety of items from posters and stickers to bags. They were particularly happy, and I admit that I did enjoy it, although I am finding some aspects pretty tedious now.
The freezer returned to us on Tuesday morning. I have never seen Diana so excited about an appliance. I shall have to consider some form of refrigeration equipment for future birthdays. Perhaps freezer packs or ice cube trays….
Tuesday morning, before school. Conversation with Rory.
Me: Have you asked Cassidy if he minds if you go out with Maddie?
Rory:
Me: You have, haven't you…
Me: Are you going to ask Maddie out?
Rory:
Me: You already are! I knew it!
Rory: (who was brushing his teeth at the time)
Now, it does not hurt now and again to put the fear of Dad into the children and make them realise that their parents are a) not stupid and b) possibly psychic and c) that attempting to hide anything from them really isn't a long term plan and it could easily backfire.
Of course, by Wednesday, the whole school knew. It was common knowledge amongst the van load of polo players I took to training. Everyone I know who knows them approves, so it will be very interesting. It's kind of nice. No pressure or anything.
Tuesday was a big day because we also got a new table (for a very low price, like cost of shipping), so there was more moving around. The unforeseen implication of a new table is that Diana now wants new lounge furniture to match. Every silver cloud has a grey lining, eh?
Rory got his new iPod on Friday so he was in geek heaven. I gave him a hard drive with the family MP3s on it, which contains about 160gb of music.
We actually managed to fit in some work around the house between polo games on the weekend. We filled the garden bin for the first time in about three months. Some cleaning and tidying things were done that were badly overdue.
LESSON FOR THE WEEK
Make sure you have a nice photo of yourself that you don't mind going in to the paper, should something unexpected occur. It's like the wearing clean underwear thing, but much more important.
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