We have rain for first time in a while, we need it.
LOCAL NEWS
Grim news this morning with three bodies found in Auckland in last 24 hours in different places. One was a Titirangi woman missing for over a week who was not entirely with it, one was found in a river by a kayaker near Clevedon, and a third found near a boat in the harbour near Kawau.
The Green Party suggested we have a national holiday to commemorate Edmund Hillary, which instantly put me off the idea. We continued to be bombarded with trivia and various weird stories regarding Hillary, which was a shame because it was starting to get a bit much. We've had suggestions that state highway one be renamed Hillary Highway, that we rename a mountain, and many that are just quite bizarre. We would not honour the man in any way if we began calling the kiwifruit the Hairy Hillary.
Then we got news that nobody from the royal family was coming for the Hillary funeral. I am not an expert on protocol and I can understand why the Queen herself might not be able to make the trip, but I think the Royals should have sent at least a B-list royal to represent them for the event. Even the poms think it is a snub. I think they have blown it big time, Republicanism here we come.
Apparently the word "Helengrad" for Wellington has entered an Australasian dictionary. No mentiond of "threetards" making the grade.
Formaldehyde was put in milk in a staff lunch room at a medical research centre as some form of protest, two staff drank it. Subsequent tests on them showed that they were 74% more likely to develop cancer of the ear lobe if they drank nine cups of coffee a day than people who didn't drink the formaldehyde.
Things went a little crazy on the North Shore, with about four separate incidents of violence in two days mid-week. Been quiet since.
Meanwhile, a father decided it would be clever to take his 11 year old son and a friend for a ride in the boot of his car. He reckons they talked him into it. They crashed, his son died, the friend suffered pretty nasty injuries. They were thrown out of the boot, so perhaps it wasn't shut. No mention of the cause of the accident, but another vehicle was involved. If one used the "the father didn't know the accident would happen" defence then nobody would have to ride inside the vehicle or use seat belts when they weren't planning on having an accident.
In the wake of Hillary's departure, local poetry "legend" Hone Tuwhare died on Wednesday. Not sure he was quite as legendary as Hillary, but it gave them something else to cover.
It seemed to be transgender awareness week this week. The media seemed to pelt us with stories about policemen becoming policewomen, kids being outed at new schools by calling them their old name, and greenskeeper Willy became greenskeeper without a willy. It was pretty odd. I mean people don't decide they aren't a size 9 and get their feet made larger or smaller, they don't change hat sizes.
McDonalds has sought an injunction to prevent an ex-employee of blogging about conditions of work. Quite interesting, one assumes there is an army of ex-workers that could do this. They may have quite a fight on their hands.
We had a murder of a 26 year old Scottish tourist. Not good, never looks good overseas when that happens. Looks like she interrupted some morons vandalising a school.
WORLD NEWS
We heard about the Japanese whalers and the wailing protestors all week. They finally were freed about Friday.
Crash landing by BA plane at Heathrow was pretty unusual. Bet the crash unit got the shock of their lives having to do something that wasn't an exercise.
A picture of Madeleine's abductor has been released. What a load of bollocks, this whole thing is quite ridiculous. They aren't ever going to find her in one piece, let it go and move on.
SPORT
The Indians thumped the Aussies in the Third Test, so no new record for Australia. Good in a way, but to get equal and not push on must be annoying. Not sure where to send the sympathy card.
The New Zealand car Black Beauty won the first A1 GP race at Taupo in the morning and did reasonably well in the second race, and is theoretically now leading the competition.
Everton beat Wigan 2-1, Man City drew 1-1 with West Ham. Chelsea, Arsenal, and Man Utd all beat lower teams.
MY SAD LIFE
Began the week with a medical theme. Took Rory to the doctor on Monday to get his ear checked, he had an outer ear infection which wasn't too serious. Then went to a physio with Hannah on Tuesday, to see about her knees (they hurt a lot after exercise). She now is doing exercises to strengthen the muscles around the knee. She's been pretty good with them, going back tomorrow to see how she's doing.
In between work stuff have been doing other little jobs around the house. Hannah and I went to the building supply place and got a couple of things. I think I need to make a list because I always remember what I needed when I get home.
Rory got his NCEA exam result(s) on Friday. He passed, reasonably well I suppose for doing it a year early, but the scoring method is pretty bizarre. We don't have room to explain it properly here. The numbers go like this - he got four merits, two excellents, 21 credits, in two subjects even though he only took one. I told you it was weird.
We did the scotsmans concert when the Police played in Auckland on Saturday night. Parked at Maddie's house and sat on the grass outside the stadium and listened for a while. I am not really a fan of live music to be honest. It was okay, but very okay.
Didn't really see an awful lot of Rory this week. He has slept elsewhere one day in two in last eight days.
Did see Sarah a bit. She's sort of sticking out in front a lot now and the babies are over six pounds each. They have to escape soon, you’d think with two of them they could come up with a plan faster.
Diana is helping Hannah sew a dress. I think Hannah was really enjoying it until there were some hitches.
Diana had her first week back at work at a new location and new regime (now finishing at 1pm, bit earlier than last year, but doesn't really seem noticeable).
Breakfast TV has started again today, it has seemed so quiet the last month or so. Not sure Diana is too happy about it because I turn the TV on at 6:30am.
I ordered a couple of books from Amazon yesterday so I will have something to track for the next week or so.
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