LOCAL NEWS
Our youngest ever convicted murderer, Bailey Junior Kuariki, is now out on bail. Bailey is now a bailee. (sorry, couldn't resist)
The government purchase of the railways prompted breakfast television to come up with the dream team for the board. It included such glitterati as David Benson-Pope (the student basher), Taito Philip Field (the immigration scam minister), and a host of others. It was pretty funny, a list of the Labour Government's embarrassments and failures, an off the cuff thing which deserved a wider audience.
A pub was stolen from south Auckland this week. That's right, a pub was stolen, not burgled. It was a portable pub, obviously a little too portable. The west-coast owners vowed to de-knacker the perpetrators and send the said off cuts to their mums in a lunch box.
We had two retards facing off on a one way bridge down near Queenstown, nobody would back down until the police arrived. So pathetic. Not sure if either was a tourist, but you would suspect they were (not necessarily from overseas, a tourist from outside the area is what I mean).
Big fuss about the New Zealand representative for Miss Universe, a Massey University graduate, when the university displayed a photo of her in a bikini (rather than a gown). Was it that inappropriate? Perhaps. Did it generate publicity, ooooh yes.
A large number a Killer Beez (a local gang) were arrested for manufacture and sale of "P". They had 200k in cash. A replay of an interview with the leader of Killer Beez was shown where he was saying he didn't do drugs, didn't make drugs, didn't sell drugs, and you know he looked like he was lying through his teeth (body language can provide pretty good hints to even a bozo like me, see below for another observation along those lines).
Bit of a fuss about player poaching at high school level again this week. Mt Albert Grammar has been done for two offences. We know they have done it in polo, but that wasn't one of them. Approaching a kid to come to your school so they can play a sport is apparently verboten, but I don't actually see why it should be. A player would be flattered and if the sport is important to them they might want to do it. Why should they not be allowed?
A guy attacked police with a chainsaw. Police hit him with their car. No, they drove it. Would have been cooler if they ripped of the exhaust pipe and slapped him silly with it. After the Tokeroa chainsaw pseudo-massacre, we seem to be favouring the chainsaw as a weapon.
Meanwhile a man took a chainsaw as hand luggage on a plane, because it wasn't in the list of dangerous items (like nail scissors and pocket knives).
WORLD NEWS
The weather in Myanmar seems to have accounted for 22,000 people, the number climbed a couple of times. The regime there seems to be perfect to maximise damage and minimise recovery. Funny how when one person kills another it is murder but when a regime neglects people allowing tens of thousands to die it isn't.
REAL SPORT
Rory's team lost 5-6 in a game they really should have won on Friday night, it was pretty sad. Then Hannah's team, without two of their best three players (see later for why one of them didn't play), lost 0-9 in a game that should have been winnable.
Hannah's soccer team lost 0-2 against a strong team but it could have been better with Hannah playing. Still grading so not the end of the world.
Rory's team won 9-4 against Sacred Heart on Sunday afternoon. Rory scored three for us and one for them (he tried to deflect a shot, but didn't quite work).
Hannah's two school polo teams had games on Sunday but she didn't go (although she was supposed to). Don't know how they went but suspect they struggled.
SPORT
New Zealander Scott Dixon won pole position for the Indy 500, which is pretty cool. Not sure when the race is, possibly this morning.
Only one week of round robin left of Super 14. Teams will make semi-finals, I am sure. Meanwhile, rugby is generally considered to be in trouble as more and more people lose interest.
Last week of premiership this weekend. This is when all the teams play their last game at the same time so nobody knows what they need based on other results. Chelsea needed a win but they drew against Bolton 1-1, Man Utd needed a win and they got a 2-0 win over Wigan. Liverpool beat Spurs 2-0, Middlesbrough beat Man City 8-1 (ouch), Arsenal beat Sunderland 1-0. So Man Utd wins, two points clear of Chelsea, Arsenal third.
MY SAD LIFE
Hannah hurt her right index finger at PE on Monday. Couldn't tell how bad, but she was doing cartwheels at dancing that night (no, don't go there, seriously). She went to get it looked at properly on Tuesday, it was broken but not seriously. The x-ray revealed that there are still growth plates in her bones so she hasn't stopped growing yet. She then went to a variety of people over the next few days (plastic surgeon, hand person, you name it). This included an 8am appointment this morning. She will slowly get back in sport and dancing but goal keeping in polo could be a while off.
It was Ben Grant's birthday on Sunday, he is now four! Mum has her birthday on Wednesday.
Hannah showed me an interesting thing in a TV show she was watching. A woman with quite a large nose was interviewing two people and you could see the female interviewees eyes were going from looking her in the eye to checking out the proboscis, it was pretty funny.
Rory, Maddie, and I worked on rearranging his room, and cleaning as we went. We removed a bit of detritus from my time, recovered some wild socks, plates, and so forth. He now has comfortable seating for six, and he reckons can sleep about 8 in comfort. His definition of comfort is one that I wasn't previously aware of.
Bigger news is that Maddie took Rory off for a hair cut on Saturday (it being an even numbered year and everything). It's a lot shorter but still relatively long. At least he can see in the pool now. And where he is walking, etc.
We had lunch with Granny for Mother's Day. It was Sarah's first Mother's Day, the twins are nearly 13 weeks old.
Judy returned from her island cruise this week. Sounded pretty cruisy, with tough decisions being which restaurant and which show. The boat had 600 passengers, although one died while visiting an island (not on the ship itself).
I've been watching a talk by Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss on YouTube. It's pretty cool being able to see things like that. My favourite line is where they point out that the difference between the age of the earth and the biblical 6,000 year estimate is like saying that the journey from New York to LA is 7.8 yards. I wonder if the internet could result in a generally better educated population? You could have the best people being lecturers for all students in the world at the same time. Perhaps not.
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