Weather hasn't been too flash last 24 hours or so.
LOCAL NEWS
A woman was jailed for contempt of court for not revealing the location of her son. The court has ordered he be cared for by his father and she disagrees.
A hunter stabbed himself in the groin while de-boning a deer. They say "meat is murder", in this case the meat got it's own back. He got rescued.
Police exercised a warrant and searched electorate and parliamentary offices of the inaugural winner of the dodgy cabinet minister of the year award, Mr Taito Philip Field (named after the company that made a version of the original Space Invaders game). I think he had plenty of warning and the chances of anything incriminating being found was pretty low.
Chris Kahui, 21 year old ex-father of the fabled Kahui twins, was charged with their murder on Friday. He will fight the charges, which is hardly surprising if he denied that he was responsible for four months prior to the charges being laid.
A tramper fell in a river in Nelson and managed to get out after floating for two hours.
Fireworks went on sale this week, and we had a spate of fires and vandalism over the weekend. I'm sorry, I don't believe that giving people the right to damage other people's property and prevent them sleeping and harass their pets and create litter and clag up hospital emergency services and fire fighters is a fundamental right. Ban the buggers and let's hurry it up.
Not a good weekend on the roads, twice as many fatalities as the weekend before, which was a holiday weekend. Not surprising from what we saw on way home from Hamilton. We saw two accidents in about two kilometres on the return leg, both on the other side of the road. One car rolled on the Bombay hill.
WORLD NEWS
Two New Zealand police escorts lost a Polish prisoner at Heathrow when escorting him home.
A Nigerian airliner crashed, with 100 on board. The fourth in a year. They are running out of airliners. Would you lease them one? I certainly wouldn't, unless it was overinsured.
The fire in California is massive, thousands of hectares. That is pretty big.
Fidel Castro is being measured up for a midget. Doesn't look good.
REAL SPORT
Hannah played for Ponsonby Marlins, scored two goals but team lost 3-8. Her proper team, the Sharks, lost 3-6 to another Rangeview team, Hannah scored one.
Rory's school team lost 4-5 to Avondale, he didn't score.
We went to Hamilton to play Waikato on Sunday. Rory's team won 6-4 but it was quite niggly. Rory did not score. Hannah's team played right afterward (they are C team, playing Waikato B girls) and won 8-3, which was pretty cool. Hannah scored one goal.
SPORT
The Black Caps won their game against Pakistan, qualifying them to play in the semi-finals, which was a good result. Was Stephen Fleming's 194th ODI as captain, a record. We play the Aussies on Wednesday, not good.
Man Utd thumped Bolton 4-0, Rooney got a hat-trick, Liverpool beat Villa 3-1, Chelsea beat Sheffield United 2-0, Watford drew 0-0 with Spurs, the Arse drew 1-1 with Everton. West Ham got a rare win, beating Blackburn 2-1.
Kiwis beat Great Britain in the league, about 18-13 I think.
MY SAD LIFE
Hannah has made a touch team for school, not sure which one (girls or mixed). Think the tournament is next week.
Hannah also went off with her friend Josie to tennis on Saturday morning. Seemed to have a good time, they walked home and then baked a lemon tart and triple chocolate cookies (they were really double chocolate but they put one lot of chocolate in twice).
The trip to Hamilton wasn't too bad, but weather wasn't great on the way home, it rained most of the way. We stopped at Candyland on the way home, got some supplies for Halloween tomorrow. I told the kids we would only go if both their teams won their games, which they did, which was good.
Thomas turned eight on Friday. He had a party at Megazone.
Had dinner with Allan and Jacqui on Saturday night. Also Brett, who heads to Melbourne to live today, and Paul. Emma was there for a while, she is off to Brisbane over summer, she turns 20 in a couple of weeks.
Rory bought a three-man slingshot on trademe. They aren't exactly complicated. Anyway, Paul and I went with him and Cassidy down to the school. Paul and I held each end of it (we were sort of over-qualified as substitutes for sticks), Rory was the aimer, Cassidy was the target. It was a bit of fun, mostly from the misfires.
Rory has had Cassidy over at our house a lot lately. He only lives about 500 metres away. Cassidy has joined the school polo team.
Managed to have a crack at the prickles in the lawn on Saturday, hard work but made a good dent. Need to have another go but one part looks like we have gophers or something.
I have been semi-miserable with a cold this week, not really improving yet but hasn't turned into a cough, so far.
That'll do for now.
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