Today is St Patrick's Day. Why we make such a fuss of it compare to other days, I don't know.
LOCAL NEWS
New Zealand made the news about one of our sons, a drug dealer in LA, who kept the body of his dead girlfriend on ice for a year. We are so proud. Who need's Rachel Hunter and Peter Jackson?
Meanwhile the parenting prowess of a woman in Hamilton was under the spotlight after locking her 10yo and 2yo out of the house in the evening, telling them to go to their uncle's house, and then heading off to the pub. She then said she was "getting the bash" from her partner and wanted the kids out of harm's way. Shame the kids didn't know how to get to "uncles" house.
We got news this week about a guy that leapt out of a brothel during the filming of a raid for some reality show about overstayers. The show screened a few weeks ago. Would he have leapt if he wasn't being filmed? We will never know….
Party pills were reclassified as class c drugs on Thursday by Parliament. People selling them are not happy, there's a surprise.
Being a small country, we can't run to airplane hijackings too often, so an escaped prisoner hijacked an airport shuttle bus (being the closest thing, and all, as you do).
A beneficiary made it in to the news for a good thing. He won $5m on Lotto, so he is no longer a beneficiary (although you could consider, given that Lotto is government owned that he just got a lump sum).
A dead partially naked 52yo woman was found on the side of the road in Banks Peninsula on Friday. The next day it was established it was from a traffic accident when they found her car. Not sure how that explains the clothing.
A teenager was shot dead on a hunting expedition in Tarawera. "It's ironic," said his Mum, "He was such a dear, and he was mistaken for one."
Road carnage wasn't so bad this week.
WORLD NEWS
Gold hit USD1000 this week. Petrol prices continue to rise. The USD is dropping. I think something is gonna blow soon. I really can't see how all these inflationary pressures aren't going to hit us hard.
An Australian woman was in court this week for fatally stabbing her partner because he didn't like Bruce Springsteen. Well, that's what the headlines say, there was more to it than that. Moral is, keep your Springsteen view to yourself for safety. Sounds like the partner was a bit of a prick.
The missing English girl was found in a divan bed base. The English do seem to make such a fuss of their missing children, and it happens rather too often.
REAL SPORT
Too many games to list here (thirteen, I think), Rory played six and Hannah played seven games. Was pretty tough, both teams weren't at full strength. Did not do exceedingly well. Hannah scored two goals, which isn't bad when you consider she was goalie a lot, and the team scored about 8 goals in total. Rory scored about 60% of his teams goals.
SPORT
The second test between New Zealand and England began on Thursday, I forgot it was on. Was sort of evenly poised end of first day but slowly drifted in England's favour over the next three days. It's basically all but over today as New Zealand struggle to score the runs on the last day.
Man Utd beat Derby 1-0, Chelsea beat Sunderland 1-0, Liverpool beat Reading 2-1, Arsenal drew 1-1 with Middlesbrough.
Wales beat France to do the grand slam in the six nations rugby.
Blues lost, not sure what else happened. There were some games.
MY SAD LIFE
I have to make a confession. Rory eats Girl Guide biscuits with hummus. It's disgusting. He gets it from his mother, who used to eat fruit toast with vegemite on it. Please don't tell anyone else.
Didn't really get up to much other than take people to polo games. Only person I've seen that isn't work, soccer or polo-related was Sarah (I walked over again for a quick visit, twins were asleep).
Hannah's club soccer team has been named, looks pretty good team, possibly strongest team she's ever played in. I am not coaching, which is probably a good thing.
We managed to go for a small trip as a family on Sunday, just up Mt Eden and walked around the crater. Needed some time outside and was nice day out there.
Gave Pandora a nocturnal surprise the other night. I got up just before I went to sleep, and as I turned on the kitchen light I kicked her just as she was throwing up (not deliberately, it was mid-stride). Now, it's quite an interesting sound that a cat makes when being whacked mid-chunder. I felt awful but I couldn't stop myself from laughing as she took off and then emptied some more just inside the cat door. For my efforts I got to clean it up before returning to bed.
Rory is away at biology camp for a couple of days, left this morning. Just as long as he doesn't do any human biology. It is up near Goat Island, they will be snorkelling there. A few of you foreigners have been there.
I think we are looking forward to Easter but suspect we are going to be utterly bored. Might need to come up with a plan.
Stay tuned (assuming that you are mind bogglingly bored, yourself)
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