LOCAL NEWS
Nasty weekend on the roads with eight people dying. All of a sudden we seem to be getting holiday weekend style carnage on a normal weekend on a regular basis. Not sure why, for a few years we seemed to be cutting down the road toll. Perhaps we are going for a high score.
We had a mid-air collision near Paraparaumu airport between a helicopter and a light aircraft which three people.
News this week that half of mothers experience some form of manipulation or bullying at the hands of their children. Good grief. The other half just don't realise that they have. Who pays for this stuff?
Spooky coincidence on Tuesday. First the relatives of people who died in Mt Erebus (like 30 years ago) complained that they weren't able to visit the crash site, then the next day the guy who wrote the royal commission report got hit by a car and died. Coincidence? I think not.
A Blenheim house fire took three lives overnight on Wednesday.
Pretty sad murder suicide in south island, where a 67 year old man took the life of his 27 year old handicapped daughter and then his own. Not a lot of background on it but suspect he knew he didn't have long and didn't think his daughter would be cared for.
A local Scientist put his reputation on the line by predicting that the East Coast would have no earthquakes for the next 7,000 years. I guess he only cares if it happens in the next 50 years or so.
The war medals stolen from Waiouru a while back were returned this week, which surprised me. Very good news, although the circumstances of the return was a little odd. A lawyer negotiated the return, supposedly did his own digging to find them, then getting himself considerable publicity. He also negotiated a reward ($300k was offered, they got less). Meanwhile police say they are still trying to find the perpetrators. This story rated about three pages the day afterwards.
Some loser defied a liquor ban by walking in to a West Coast Police Station drinking beer. He was searched and they found cannabis resin as well. The moron was then charged.
WORLD NEWS
Has there been anything happening? I don't remember anything. Oh, hang on, there was a mass shooting or two in the US but that is BAU (business as usual). I think it is news when they don't have one.
Oh, and Obama has caught Hillary, it seems.
There was a rumour GW said something intelligent and comprehensible but I think he was misquoted.
REAL SPORT
Hannah had her first official high school polo training on Tuesday. There was much glee as they discovered that St Mary's were in the pool before them, which included a number of former team mates and school mates.
Her first school game was due on Friday night but the team they were playing defaulted. At least it was in time for us to organise more people to come and have a friendly game, which was good. The our senior girls played and they got thumped 10-1 by Mt Roskill.
Rory had an actual game against Avondale College. He was tired because he'd had Cassidy stay the weekend and I made him do some swimming two hours before the game (but it wasn't much and not hard). Anyway, they won 6-4 and I think Rory scored five of the six goals.
SPORT
The England cricket team continued to confound my predictions by losing the second ODI even more impressively than the first. They were victim to the vagaries of Duckworth/Lewis but all out for 158 was never going to be enough, the Black Caps made the required runs without losing a wicket, in about half the overs they had available. Let's be honest, unless Duckworth/Lewis doubled the target score I am not sure it would have mattered (although they would have fielded differently defending 300 than 158, I suppose).
Then, after all that, England did behave as expected and won the third one. They are now odds on to win the next one.
Former Black Caps captain Stephen Fleming announced his retirement this week. I never really rated him to be honest.
Fifth round of FA Cup saw Man Utd thump Arsenal 4-0. Barnsley upset Liverpool 2-1, West Bromich Albion thumped Coventry 5-0, and Chelsea managed to beat the great Huddersfield 3-1.
The Super 14 started this weekend, but I am afraid I am not sure anyone really cares. The Blues beat the Chiefs, Crusaders beat Brumbies (I think), Highlanders and Hurricanes both lost.
MY SAD LIFE
Well, Sarah took part in a radical weight loss operation on Tuesday, with the surgical removal of two babies. They are to be called Jack and Samantha (Oddly, Hannah said she wanted the girl to be called Samantha the day before). I don't know the official weights yet but think Jack was 3.06 Kg and Samantha's card had been lost when I was in there.
Most of the weekend was taken up with taking people to swimming pools. Hannah had six separate sessions for her New Zealand U15 trial. Who knows how it went and how she did. She came through okay, that is main thing, we should hear what happens next tomorrow but I am not really sure that we want her to continue beyond this cut. We hung around a bit during it and I really don't know how the coach is going to be able to select people when he didn't seem to be taking any notes at all.
Rory had a plan for Valentine's Day, which seemed to go well. Maddie made a heart shaped pink cake, which tasted very nice. And yes, Diana and I did have gifts for each other (that was for Brett, mostly).
The kids had their school swim sports on Friday. They both did pretty well in their heats. Rory re-set the intermediate record for 25m freestyle, and Hannah beat the existing in same race as two others who also beat it. They both swam in their relays.
Rory is sitting his practical exam for his restricted license this Wednesday.
We had a girl from Wellington, Maxine, staying with us for the weekend for the trial. She was very good, and Hannah got along well with her.
Diana and I watched most of Schindler's List over the weekend, it wasn't as grim as I thought, but not exactly a walk in the park.
Diana starts her new job today, she doesn't seem too worried about it which is a good sign.
Things seem very back to normal. Diana went to three different pools this week and so did I. I think total pool visits numbered fourteen between us this week. That does seem like a lot, should be a little bit less this coming weekend.
SOMETHING I LEARNED ON TUESDAY
Okay, not sure I want to explain how I learned this, but I am pretty sure I had a good reason at the time. Don't drink Worcestershire sauce, okay? Even if you like the taste of it on other food, don't even try it. No. Just don't. It's not a drink.
DID YOU KNOW?
Worcestershire sauce is made from rotten anchovies.
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