LOCAL NEWS
The dead shopkeeper became quite a controversy this week. It seems the police were reluctant to enter the scene until they were convinced the area was secure. So while friends and family were with him inside, the ambulancemen were there 20 minutes before they went in to assist. This does seem excessive and you wonder why you'd bother using sirens to rush somewhere if you have an extra 20 minutes to get there. Also, while they waited, some others came in and actually stole more stuff from the shop, which is not only incredibly tasteless, but shows that many did not see the risk the police saw.
A quality of living survey has Auckland as fifth, behind Zurich, Vienna, Geneva, and Vancouver. It was the highest placed southern hemisphere city. The bad news is the survey is used to determine how much extra to pay employees that are posted to those places so you don't get much to come live in Auckland.
It was the agricultural field days at Mystery Creek this week. The Goodins were down there for it, as is now the norm. It is traditionally the coldest week of the year but it didn't seem that cold.
Two bodies were found on top of a rail carriage in a shunting yard in Christchurch (funny how we find bodies but don't often lose them). They didn't think it was suspicious, and yet they had not yet determined the cause of death. Later the story unfolded and it sounded like they hitched a ride and maybe met the ceiling of a tunnel on an unplanned basis. Sounds like more accurately there was a rail carriage decorated with an interesting new colour known as "hint of hitchhiker". As for the cause of death, it's not real hard to figure out when the bodies don't appear to have any bones above the C3 vertebra. They have found a footbridge with a matching stain.
We had a car versus bus incident this week, where the car won. It wasn't a proper sized bus, just a mini-bus thing, but the driver ran off the road and down a bank.
A guy found a gold kiwi label pin inside a tin of tuna, he didn't seem to bothered (he found it in his tuna sandwich, actually).
An 80 year old woman died as a result of a home invasion in Manurewa, the place where the liquor store guy was shot. It's getting a bit of bad reputation.
The principal of a Wellington high school has copped flak for naming a girl who killed herself. Apparently it is illegal to say a cause of death before the coroner has done their bit. However, I can imagine that most of the school were already aware and misleading gossip would probably have been more harmful. It is more likely it could be used to put people off the idea than encourage others to do the same thing.
An Avondale man got it wrong on a TAB ticket (ticked the wrong race) and won over $10k, but didn't realise and biffed the ticket in the bin. The TAB noticed the win was not claimed, checked security footage, found the ticket in the bin and tracked him down. Got bit of police work in the name of customer service.
WORLD NEWS
It's bad enough with women's magazines and their headlines of dubious accuracy, but the headline "Bond star slices finger off while shooting" was just bollocks. He sliced the finger-tip off, not even one bone, he was back filming a few hours later. What a crock.
GW met with the Queen. Described (ad nauseum on the breakfast news) as a quiet meeting between old friends. Well, if that is the case, my esteem for the Queen is severely diminished.
REAL SPORT
Hannah's soccer team were missing both their centre backs for the game (Hannah being one of them), but she got there at half time. They were never really in trouble, winning 8-0.
The team I help coach ended up with only seven players, which was woeful, they lost 2-3, which was pretty damn good considering.
SPORT
I watched Netherlands versus Italy, a game with two quite remarkable goals and one more normal one. Holland beating Italy 3-0 was quite a surprise. I also watched Netherlands versus France, yet another game where the Dutch disposed of a world cup finalist, 4-1 this time.
I went with Koos, Julie, Heidi, and others to see the All Blacks play England at Eden Park, they won 37-20.
MY SAD LIFE
Hannah had stage challenge on Wednesday, we saw a version of it on Tuesday evening. She spent 15 1/2 hours at the Aotea Centre, got home at nearly midnight. Unbelievable, when you consider they spent about seven minutes performing.
Rory achieved new heights this week. After a party on Friday night, they went walkabout to Maccas, ordered 20 extra patties and made ridiculous burgers with them. On the walk home they were asked by police if they had been near the weed. The irony is you could smell a ton of it on Bond St walking to and from the rugby.
Rory borrowed a Nintendo Wii off someone this week. It seems quite stupid. People stand there waving their arms about.
Hannah also had her dance show this weekend, which we went to see on Sunday. It went well, I cannot claim to be an expert so won't put a review here.
Once the show was over, Hannah had to do a speech on shark attacks and do two portraits. She did Diana and me. They weren't too bad although I think mine was easier to do.
Hannah and I have just been to the hand clinic for what was the final visit. She's all go, just a couple more weeks of being careful. She did the hand strength thing today and I got to do it too. I got 46 on both hands so I am very well balanced.
Rory is off to Waihi for school today and left early.
It is Diana's birthday next week. I was going to suggest people give me ideas for a present but I think we should save a bit of bother and you just buy the gift and send it directly to her ;-)
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