Haven't seen a lot of news, so I have had to make some up. It's short, so therefore you can be grateful.
LOCAL NEWS
The only paper we saw this week had a cover story of a woman who was told to cover up her cleavage at the Christchurch Casino. She was a big girl, and I think they were concerned someone might park a bicycle there. Not sure it was worth the front page but I guess it might have sold a few papers. The woman, however, was mad, I don't understand why she'd want to share her embarrassment with the world.
Bad day on roads on Friday, four died in three separate events.
A bad day in Christchurch on Thursday for a man who was shot by police. He went mad with a hammer. I am not sure I sympathise too much. Someone said "why did you shoot my friend?" and another policeman replied "because we aren't paid enough to risk coming home in a box", which I thoroughly agree with. It's all very fine for your average member of the public to demand that police don't use force, but they aren't putting their life on the line, and news pieces quoting them saying so are rubbish.
Ruapehu had a very small eruption but it kept everyone (in the news journalism industry, at least) entertained, especially as a man was crushed by a rock and his amputations and kidney failure was watched with indecent interest.
An Australian tourist who lost his arm after an accident here is being charged with something relating to the accident. Seems unfair, somehow.
A car being chased by police hit a house in Invercargill.
WORLD NEWS
GW thinks the childrens will learn stuff what you teach them.
A 24 year old man has married an 82 year old woman in Argentina. Yuck.
REAL SPORT
Seems a long time ago, but they won their last pool match then went on to the semi-final, which was bizarre. They tied at 5-5 at full time but won 8-5 in extra time against Hutt. In the final it was close but they got a lead about 2nd quarter and hung on to it to win 8-7 over Northsport, the team that beat them by one goal in regional final.
SPORT
Despite not being exactly rugby mad, I am pretty annoyed how my preferred news web site seems to have lost provincial rugby while the rugby world cup is on. I can tell Southland lost 17-19, for example, but not to who.
I managed to see the end of the Auckland v Canterbury game, despite power cut, who won to take the Ranfurly Shield.
The Wellington Phoenix beat Perth Glory 4-1 for their first home win of the season, after about four or five games, so not before time.
MY SAD LIFE
Koos and Heidi's mum, Pam, had a fall last Monday and broke her lower arm. I know sod all else because I keep forgetting to call when I am somewhere with coverage. Sounded pretty serious. I hope she's on the mend, guys.
Well, after the final on Tuesday afternoon we headed for the hills We stayed in Arthur's Pass at a place called Bealey, woke to see snow capped mountains all around us. We drove down to Franz Josef the next day, say a glacier, but not very close. We then went to Fox glacier, got closer. We stopped at a picturesque little beach where a guy rides his fishing boat on a cable to get past the breakers. We walked up the beach a bit and looked for greenstone. We stayed Thursday night in Haast, very small township, where Hannah befriended a cat that she called Gordon. Friday we got to Arrowtown, where we stayed for three nights. Along the way we have stopped to see a variety of waterfalls, valleys, streams, pools, lakes, rocks, and so forth. Rory seems to have taken over my camera, which is interesting.
The availability of cellphone signal and internet on our travels has been quite variable. In Bealey, there was free wireless, which was great (because there was no cellphone coverage, except for two days a year during the coast to coast), in another place you got ten minutes for $1 on their PC that could do limited browsing and had no copy-paste function, which was hopeless and not cheap. In Arrowtown there was a wireless network, that wasn't too near so access was limited and had to use the vodem.
On Saturday we went to an animal park where you could feed things. Donkeys, pigs, horses, goats, thars (type of goat), yak, and other things. Sunday we went to Wanaka and saw the Warbirds museum (fighter aircraft, about five or so), a transport and toy museum, and a place called "Have a shot" where we did a weird air-powered gun battle thing. I shot Hannah in the stomach, didn't mean to, felt awful. Afterwards, we went and played a round of frisbee golf, an interesting game, far more appealing than regular golf.
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