LOCAL NEWS
We had a comical escape from Mt Eden prison, with the classic sheet rope from one of the towers. There were photos of it everywhere. The guys was caught a few days later.
An immigration official, Mary Anne Thompson, resigned after some fuss about letting relatives in. Then we found out she had misled people into thinking she had a doctorate from the London School of Economics.
It is becoming more apparent that the best way to get publicity is to have the word "naked" in there somewhere. We had some shop assistants wearing only aprons serving in some shop to protest excessive packaging this week. The naked newsreader continued to make headlines.
A Hindu family caused offence by painting a Hindu symbol meaning good fortune on their roof. It looks like the swastika, which seemed to offend the sensibilities of various people (wimps, to be fair, like someone who was the son of a guy who fought in world war ii. I mean, for pity's sake, we don't get offended by red circles because of the Japanese now, do we?).
The body of a lost Israeli tramper was found this week.
Our budget is due to be delivered this week, I am pretty sure it will be a no-win thing for the Labour government. They have waited too long to blink and are going to look very stupid with any sort of tax cut now when it is patently obvious (at least to thinking voters) that we won't be in a position to afford it. I suspect it is just another step in the path to defeat at the coming election.
Couple of car chases in lower north island, one went up to 140km/hr and it turned out to be a 13yo boy. In Dannevirke, which reached speeds of 30km/hr (yes, 30) they needed road spikes, drove for 15km with no tyres. But, considerately, the car chase pulled over to let mobility scooters pass.
Someone revealed a study that showed that advertisements are 30-50% louder than the programs. This doesn't surprise me, I like to mute the TV in ad breaks anyway so I don't really care.
WORLD NEWS
China didn't want to be outdone by the Myanmar disaster, so they had an earthquake (they just got together and stamped their feet). This meant they were both clamouring to out-do the other's statistics. Of course, percentage wise, China never stood a chance. Interestingly, as a percentage of the population, our river tragedy was 0.0002% of the population, whereas 20,000 dead in China was around 0.002% of theirs and 100,000 in Myanmar is about 0.2% of theirs (gives you a feel for scale).
Austria stayed in the news with an quintuple axe murder, way more impressive than our dodgy chainsaw stuff. He killed his wife, daughter, parents, and father in law but didn't have the decency to finish himself off.
REAL SPORT
Saturday, Hannah returned to soccer, and they had another home win. They were 5-0 up at half time but was 6-1 final score. Hannah was back to taking free kicks and corners.
Rory played Sunday, they should have won, they lost I think 5-7. Rory scored one.
Hannah also played polo, probably shouldn't have (she was not in goal, at least) but she did okay, scored one from half way to make the final score a 3-4 loss. I think she really needed to get in there.
SPORT
Both New Zealand teams that made Super 14 semis failed to win their final round robin match. Highlanders beat the Crusaders, Blues beat the Hurricanes.
First test against the Poms began a couple of days ago, rain impacting play, unlikely to get a result. New Zealand not in a good position, they need to bat out the last day to survive, with all wickets intact (technically they don't as they need 3 more runs to get in the lead so every run they get means the Poms have to get them as well).
Portsmouth won the FA cup for the first time since 1939.
MY SAD LIFE
The mother of a friend of Hannah's, Robin Becht, died on Friday. She had fought breast cancer, and we all thought she'd won, but it came back. Robin and Diana knew each other from the gym, and Hannah has known Hayley since they were about three. Hannah went to Hayley's house on Saturday with some other friends and they distracted her a bit, which I think was really good. Diana and Hannah are going to the funeral on Thursday.
A long time friend of Mum's died on Thursday, Libby Lawson. She has known her for nearly fifty years.
We went to the school show on Wednesday, Little Shop of Horrors. It was done very well, it was a lot of fun, there were about seven or eight people in it that I know.
On Saturday night we went to a local bar with some people (including Koos, Julie, and Heidi). The drinks were even free for a while, but I had to get up at 5am to take Hannah to polo training on Sunday morning so we didn't get too carried away.
The Listener crossword has become a bit of a ritual in our house for me and Diana to do, with us competing over who gets it first, but on Sunday it arrived home (after being partially done in the car on the way home) and was done by me and Rory, we finished it completely before she got inside from getting the washing. Was pretty unfair. We might need to photocopy it like Mum does.
The bread extravaganza continues, with Saturday including three different styles (granny bread, croissants, and baps) and Sunday night was pita bread. Diana reckons that we are saving a lot because we are buying less normal bread. Only problem is the stuff never lasts (as in it is eaten, no risk of going stale).
I was suffering a bit this week, a weird nerve thing on the left hand side of my face. No rash so it wasn't shingles, but it really hurt. Doctor told me to just chew the panadols which did help After a few days it started to improve but it is still there.
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