Had a few non-stories in the news this week
LOCAL NEWS
Well, late Monday night police had found a body in Christchurch. They took a while to confirm the identity but everyone knew who it was going to be. Then they apprehended someone and charged them with Emma Agnew's murder despite not naming the body, so we worked that bit out.
Meanwhile, fire-fighters found an elderly woman bound hands and feet in a burning house. Not nice. Police reckoned it look a professional crochet circle hit.
A real estate agent got stalked after someone took a liking to her. Can't say many people are too concerned. Real estate agents are scum. Sure, it's not nice, but if you are going to put about a photo-shopped photo of yourself and a mobile number you are really making it easy. I feel like we are stalked by the whole bloody industry with all the dodgy personalised messages they send us.
We are having a run on incidents with drink driving mums being apprehended with 1-6 toddlers unbuckled in the car. About four so far. Funny how news media latch on to themes.
The step-daughter of clothing designer Trelise Cooper has been done for using P. Yet another celeb offspring story. We are still getting Millie Holmes things now and again.
Cleavage legend Nikki Watson has lost her Chihuahua. This made a prime time news, where she was interviewed live (although live is not really apt given that she is clearly not far from brain death). She said she must have called out for it a million times. "You're hoarse?" says the interviewer. "No, my dog" she replied. Very sad. A t-shirt saying "All this and brains too" would be illegal for her to wear under the trade descriptions act.
Helen Clark was sprung texting during a speech by the Queen. Not good form, exceedingly embarrassing in fact. However, her polling with youth increased because a) she was cool enough to be able to text, and b) she was cool enough to "dis" the Queen. But let's face it, Helen seems to be pretty sure that she is the most important person on the planet so I can't see her being too concerned either way. She has since denied the whole thing and it has died off a bit.
The electronic media let themselves down this week by reporting that 0800 DAY OFF was all the IRD staff had to do to get a day off. Meanwhile, everyone got told that they still had paperwork to complete when they returned to work so the whole thing was a load of bollocks.
A knife incident at Hannah's school was reported in the paper on Saturday. He was threatening to use it on a girl at school on Friday. He also posted threatening messages on Bebo pages of two other girls, including Hannah. Both Hannah and the other girl were at polo on the day on the event. He has been expelled, but he will be attending Hannah's school next year.
A two year old drowned in a public pool in Auckland. I would personally like to see the adult that was supposed to be supervising the child be charged, but suspect that won't happen. There are signs around every pool about ages of kids at which they must be monitored by a parent or person over certain age. I am surprised it doesn't happen more often.
Nasty accident with campervan and a bunch of motorcyclists. Three died, several were injured.
10 medals, including nine Victoria Crosses, were stolen from Waioru War Museum. Pretty cynical theft, not very nice. Now being described as a crime against the nation.
WORLD NEWS
Some stupid woman was jailed for 15 days for letting her students call a teddy bear Mohammad in an Islamic country. Why the students were not charged, I don't know. She wrote a letter to the parents telling them, silly cow.
Friday was international computer security day. Not sure why we need one and if anyone cares. Meanwhile an New Zealander was revealed to have been part of a botnet scam ring that has cost people $26m. We are so proud.
REAL SPORT
We had another weekend with plenty of sport. I won't call it big because that would suggest it was more than the weekend before or after and that might not be true. It started Thursday morning and finished Sunday. We drew our first game, lost the second two, which put us out of contention for the championship and we qualified bottom of our group. We then proved that our group was pretty tough by beating the bottom two of another group then beating the top qualifier from the other side of the draw to make the final against a team we lost to in group play. We managed to reverse the previous result beating them 2-1 to win the A Grade plate. It showed that our group was a pretty tough group to be in if the bottom qualifier could beat everyone else from the bottom half of all four groups. Shame we didn't get a crack at anyone else in top half of the other groups.
So, that's the end of Hannah's intermediate polo career. It is likely Rory will be coaching the top team at Ponsonby next year, so it is not off the radar completely.
Final junior high school games were on Sunday night. Avondale defaulted midweek so the boys didn't have a game. Then MAGS couldn't field a team so the girls won by default as well. Disappointing but low stress.
So, only eight games this weekend, and I think Hannah has about four next weekend which is practically nothing, although two are in Tauranga.
SPORT
The biggest sport this week was the David Beckham led LA Galaxy against the local Phoenix team. Over 31,000 people attended. LA Galaxy won 4-1 but I don't think anyone cared about the result. Becks was in the news all week.
The Black Caps confounded everyone by levelling the series by winning the second ODI quite comfortably. They then lost the third, but not ignominiously.
Liverpool smacked Bolton 4-0, Spurs lost to Birmingham 2-3, with Robbie Keane scoring both goals then getting red carded so he did the classic hero to zero thing. Chelsea and Arsenal had wins, Man Utd play Fulham tonight.
MY SAD LIFE
On Tuesday, we wiped our mortgage. We still have an overdraft, but there is no longer a mortgage being paid all the time. It was pretty cool. About three weeks before the 20th anniversary of us buying our first house. Pretty scary to think it has been hanging over our heads that long. We also expect the OD to grow when we do things like replace the roof, if a contractor ever shows up to give us a quote. We got a letter from the bank, and then two days later they wanted to give us visa cards, which seemed kind of ironic.
Rory sat his NCEA Level 1 Science exam on Wednesday. Who knows how it went. Not sure he is very good at studying. No idea who he gets that from.
Another first for Rory. He cut himself shaving. Although he cut his ear, and I don't think he was actually shaving his ear. The good news is that it's not like anyone could see his ears anyway, they are lost in the hair. Maybe that's how it happened.
Hannah and Diana went to see the show "We Will Rock You" on Thursday night, they seemed to enjoy it. Rory and I stayed home, which was quiet but dull.
In between games on Friday, we took the team to Mission Bay where they frolicked in the fountain and the sea. We then took them to Bastion Point and they frolicked in the pond and then did other random things. They needed to let off a bit of steam, it was good for them.
It is my birthday today, and Charles' birthday tomorrow. It is also the fifth anniversary of toll free portability going live. Not bad for a system we designed a long time ago.
Movember ended on Friday, and on Saturday morning the beast was removed. I am almost back to normal, well, what I call normal.
Been doing a few things around the house in my spare time. Cleaning surfaces ready for spraying to get rid of flies, even painted a couple of things that didn't look any better after cleaning. Very domestic, it's annoying how things get tatty over time and you don't always notice. The problem is the list seems to get longer, rather than shorter.
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