LOCAL NEWS
Double murder accused Chris Kahui was not wanted in a town away from Auckland when released on bail, again. He's not Mr Popularity.
A fourth person died from the motorcycle versus campervan crash last week. The Austrian driver of the campervan pleaded guilty to six charges. I wonder how many motorcycles you have to hit at once to get a strike?
Nicky Watson's dog has been found, although it is no longer alive. A sad end to a sad story.
The body in the suitcase guys got 18 1/2 years each.
The housing price boom appears to be over, with an actual drop in the average price of a house reported in November. It's long overdue.
A large sailing boat was missing on a trip from New Caledonia to Auckland with ten people on board. Wasn't looking good, but they found it safe and sound.
A 13 year old was killed by a car near Ohinewai.
An experienced female diver died in a simple dive, having done everything right. They don't know why.
Graham Henry was reinstated as All Black coach. I think it is a mistake. Robbie Deans is now expected to go to the dark side. This is also not good.
There were two fatal stabbings and a murder within an hour over the weekend, including one guy on his birthday. Quite bizarre.
Interesting set of conflicting stories this morning. Hydro-lake levels in South Island running low, and heavy rain warning for Fjordland.
WORLD NEWS
It is two months since Steve Fossett disappeared. Guess they won't find him. I am quite surprised they haven't. Perhaps he was abducted by aliens. It just went awful quiet, so I decided to check it out and there has been nothing for a while.
The teacher jailed for her students name a bear Mohammed was freed early. She really is a silly woman and her daughter looks like that guy from Little Britain.
Some woeful survey by AOL has labelled Pamela Anderson as the sexiest woman ever, what an awful waste of carbon emissions.
The mass shooting in Omaha, Nebraska raises an interesting question. If it happens often enough to become commonplace, it won't be news, and the perpetrators won't be famous. Like streakers. Wonder if not reporting it would work?
REAL SPORT
Relatively little sport this weekend. We did go to Tauranga for two games on Saturday, this was for Div B for Hannah. They won their semi-final 7-0 and their final 7-0. The final was Waitak B versus Waitak C, which was pretty unusual (Rory played in a B v C semi final a few years back where C just managed to beat B, but that was even more extraordinary and they got thumped in the final). Hannah scored one goal as goalie in the second game (putting the team 2-0 up, in dying seconds before half time, giving them a bit of breathing room) and another when out in the field in the final. Girls scoring goals from goal is exceedingly uncommon at that age. They conceded one goal in the whole competition, about nine or ten games.
Didn't go so well at the A finals on Sunday. They lost 1-3 in the first game and 0-3 in the second game. They were missing a key player, but it shouldn't have made that much difference. Hannah did pretty well in goal, making a number of saves but it is hard to win two games when your team scores only score one goal. The difference between the A and B results is marked, I suppose it is the calibre of the opposition, but you have to wonder how they would do against each other.
So Hannah finished the weekend having won both games in one playoff and none in the other. At least she got a medal for the wins.
SPORT
Still bugger all sport out there at the moment. Because of the World Cup there isn't any end of year tour to Europe for Southern rugby teams. Not that I would watch the rugby, anyway. But let's face it the cricket isn't great, either.
Middlesbrough beat Arsenal 2-1, Man Utd beat Derby 4-1, Newcastle had a win (2-1 over the Brummies), Liverpool lost 1-3 to Reading, Chelsea beat Sunderland 2-0.
MY SAD LIFE
My birthday was a bit of a non-event. Business as usual, really, other than some nice emails. Didn't even manage a lunch or anything. Did have nice dinner though.
Elsie, Diana's Mum, came over this week. She's being a guinea pig for an arthritis drug, so they had to give her a full medical exam. They were terribly worried that they couldn't find her medical records at the hospital, but it turns out she doesn't have any. They wanted a list of the drugs she's on but she isn't on any (except for the arthritis in one knee). She's doing pretty well for 85. They were pretty surprised she had no medical history to review and the last time she was in hospital was giving birth to Diana.
I got a toaster for my birthday, it is about two steps away from being a talkie toaster like in Red Dwarf. It has an LCD display, beeps when done, and has it's own IP address and blue tooth (okay, that bit is a lie, but just about).
Plans for the trip to Wellington need to be underway, as Hannah and I leave on Wednesday (back next Monday).
Ollie has been a right pain in the rear in a number of respects, he caught three birds this week, and a skink. He has also been waking us up in the night.
The trip to Tauranga was pretty smooth but five plus hours driving in one day is a bit much (although I know Ross and Kath do half that every day going to work).
This weekend just gone was the anniversary of the chlorine poisoning affair. The weekend before was Gavin and Yana's first wedding anniversary (the 1st December I think). Maria is making early crawling attempts, she is five months old.
We seem to be having sewerage issues again, when it rains it is worse. It's not good. In fact, it's no go. The plumber has just been, much to my relief (read in to that whatever you may). We just can't tell if we have a long term problem, but we are all go again (yay).
Rory had the rest of his exams this week. He did well in maths, but got marked pretty savagely in English (got an "achieved" for one question because he chose a movie that wasn't on the list of two that wasn't actually in the question but stated in class when he wasn't there, he got "excellence" for the other two questions, and that is a bit of a crock). The NCEA style marking gets a Gay+ from me, I just don't see how people can get something out of "Merit" and "Excellence", what's wrong with 83%?
I swam 4ks this week. Haven't been swimming enough lately because of various things getting in the way so been sneaking off during the day, because things are quietening down for the end of the year. I think I am back in the zone, can knock off 50 lengths in just under half an hour. It was a struggle a couple of weeks ago.
Hannah has about four days left of being an intermediate kid. She has orientation at the new school tonight. I will attend to wave water polo flag as we need a bit of a recruitment drive.
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