We've had rain, hail, and further south snow. It has been quite a rough bit of weather, really but I can't see our lake levels being much of a problem.
LOCAL NEWS
There was news that a Christian group has supplied some intelligent design material to 400 high schools. It seems to be being treated with the lack of respect it deserves.
The trimaran Earthrace finally made it around the world, it's been trying and we've been hammered with updates over and over again. It took just under 61 days. Shame it was about 62 days after we lost interest.
Police made an arrest on a seven year old murder case. This wasn't a seven year old that murdered someone or was murdered, but a case that was seven years old. Oh, never mind.
Some guy that is trying to sell an "energy drink" called Cocaine in New Zealand that is sold overseas. Not yet approved because of the caffeine content. Turns out he is a convicted paedophile, not sure what difference that makes, other than proving he is unlikely to be selling this stuff for the public good.
We had a murder in Wanganui, nasty incident where a woman was shot in the head.
A rest home resident had her mouth taped shut by a worker at an Auckland rest home. Not a nice thing to do, but you can easily imagine why.
Despite the weather they still reckon the hydro lakes are low in the south island.
WORLD NEWS
French President and his main squeeze got a shock in Israel when a gunshot went off just as they were boarding their plane. The shot came from a nearby policeman shooting himself in the head. Israeli authorities are now considering changing the rules to stop requiring the use of the fatal salute.
Mugabe had his one horse race in Zimbabwe. Not sure if he's told everyone he won yet, he might wait for it to look like some votes were actually counted.
REAL SPORT
Despite the pretty bad weather this week, Hannah's school soccer team played Avondale on Wednesday in brutally cold conditions with a little bit of wet thrown in. It was my first game solo coaching them, and we had no subs. We really struggled to get out of the box at first but the first time we cleared it we screamed down to the other end and scored. Couldn't score again in the first half. In the second, an opposing player pushed one of ours over, from behind, with both hands, inside the six yard box. It was a penalty from wherever you looked at it but the ref didn't see it that way. We scored from the corner, so wasn't the end of the world. Hannah scored the last goal with a nice little pass back to her and popped it over everyone and in. Now three wins from three and firmly fixed at the top of the table.
Rory found out he won $10 from his swim meet, which he got when he finally went to swim squad.
All soccer on Saturday was cancelled, there was no training all week.
Hannah's club polo team had a warm up game on Sunday. I didn't really want her to play (see below for reason). She didn't play much, team was 1-3 when she came one. She helped tidy things up and they came back to draw 3-3.
SPORT
Paul Chambers rightly pointed out that I neglected to mention Euro last week. We saw Holland knocked out over that weekend and Spain beat Italy on penalties last Monday morning. We've had problems with video feed but was world wide in Turkey v Germany semi-final, which Germany won 3-2 about 1 minute from full time. The Spain v Russia semi-final was close until Spain started to establish their position, winning 3-0 in the end. I thought Russia might have had a chance.
The Black Caps won again, putting them ahead 2-1 in the series with one game left. That weather shortened abandoned game may yet haunt them, but good on them so far. The last game was at Lords on Saturday night, our time, and they managed to win that even more convincingly to take the series 3-1.
This morning, Spain beat Germany in a replay of the war in the 1930's, except there were less tanks. Spain won 1-0, good result, feel a little sorry for the Germans but they have won it a lot already.
MY SAD LIFE
Diana enjoyed her birthday. We had lunch at Prego, for a change. We have been going there more than twenty years. The kids and I made dinner. Rory took the junior role, doing little more than grating cheese. Hannah and I did the bulk of it. Nobody was ill, which was a great relief (it was fettuccine with a mushroom sauce), and some other bits, I forget.
In the rain coming back from the supermarket for supplies on Monday night we picked up Karen and her little dog Poppie. I indiscreetly said to her it was so much nicer seeing her while I was wearing underpants (because on Sunday, after swimming I had to go commando, which was really bad given that we had to go shopping and we bumped into so many people we knew, including Karen). The good news is that I did remember them this week, all three times that I went swimming.
Hannah hurt her finger again at training on Thursday night. We checked it out Friday, it wasn't broken, but pretty sore. We are getting quite a collection of x-rays, we are thinking of decorating her room with them.
We moved the new chest of drawers into her room during the week, rearranged things, and Hannah did a lot of very overdue cleaning. I wouldn't say it is a massive improvement, but it is an improvement, the floordrobe is smaller than it was.
Bit of a funny weekend, weather sucked, no soccer, but a few other things happening around the place.
Mum is in Sydney at the moment, staying with Penny and family.
Seeing Euro 2008 is now finished, I think Paul Chambers must be having his 25th birthday this Wednesday. A quarter of a century, yuck.
Hannah has been a little high-energy this week, had no soccer training (all three trainings cancelled) and only one soccer game. However, she's also had more homework, and had to write a story about being a refugee. It could have been about the suffering of a teenager in the holocaust not having credit on their cellphone but it wasn't. I thought it was a pretty good story, really.
I now have three cellphones. One is work, on Telecom, one is my secret one (the free one that is dying), and one is on Vodafone so the kids can text me. It is also useful for checking the Vodafone networks call routing like over this weekend just gone when we had a big job to do. Yeah, I know, sad.
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