LOCAL NEWS
Weather has continued to be awful. Lots of hail here, snow elsewhere.
Sad news this week that real estate agents are finding economic conditions difficult and 10% have left the profession. Whilst there is one that is older, there are few that have a worse reputation. The flood of sympathy cards and food parcels has been impossible to detect with the human eye.
On July 1, our railways became KiwiRail. This joins the stable of kiwi-named companies run by the government (KiwiBank, KiwiSaver, and Kiwifruit, the gay men's collective).
It's all been happening in Dannevirke. First controversy about a brothel opening in the main street (called Klassi Sheelaz or something, an oxymoron is ever there was one). Second, a man was killed by a plough near Dannevirke. The owner of Klassi Sheelaz wasn't concerned, it was only one less customer. Nothing happened the day after, I looked very hard.
Some Siamese fighting fish were intercepted in the post this week, from Thailand. I think they were alive when detected but not for much longer.
We had a seven year old boy die in Nelson, the step father has been charged, and guess what? He's from South Auckland. So now they are exporting murderers to other places.
National has said they will privatise ACC, not sure why this is so controversial, they had done it last time they were in power and Labour reversed it. Are people's memories that short?
Great bit of guerrilla marketing this week. Some guy put his soul for sale on trademe, it attracted the usual sort of attention that sort of thing does (the media are just sluts, really, for an easy story). Anyway, in a bit of a coup, Hell Pizza bought it for $5000. This generated considerably more than $5k in coverage, so one has to wonder if the whole thing might have been planned.
A DOC (Department of Conservation) worker shot a rare takahe, he thought it was a pukeko (there were 36 on the island, now only 35, he should have known the difference).
A police chase ended in the death of the retarded teenaged chasee. A few more fatal chases might prevent more.
Truckies protested on Friday about a rise in road user charges but clogging main roads. They were pretty sensible, generally, occupying only one lane. Diana went over the harbour bridge which she said was pretty weird with a lane full of trucks coming the other way.
A 14 year old boy was found dead on a sports field near Taupo. They reckon he was drunk, fell asleep, and froze. Is that natural causes?
Asians had a protest march this week, about crimes against Asians. However, the organiser is recruiting help from the triads, which seems to be a little odd. There are rumours that triads are organising local gangs with things like drugs.
A dangerous substance incident where a mystery powder was spread around a park. Wasn't explosive or anthrax, it was cake mix powder.
Sky TV cocked up (literally) when they showed porn on their free to air channel for four minutes during a rugby show. So far the only complaints made have been that it wasn't for longer. No mention of whether the porn channel people got rugby as well.
WORLD NEWS
Nasty incident in Australia where a man killed his wife and two grand daughters with an axe and tried to get his police woman daughter also.
Is it just me or is Gaddafi the Michael Jackson of world leaders? He must have had facelifts, he looks like he always has. He is 66, so I suppose he's not that old.
When the cure is worse than the condition. Two helicopters containing people bound for hospital crashed into each other on the way to the same hospital, and were diverted to the morgue. You'd think choppers were slow enough that you'd see each other, surely?
Nasty incident when lightning struck at a soccer match in Cambodia, which killed three players and injured three others.
A "bulldozer" went amok in Jerusalem. It wasn't really a bulldozer in my book, more like a front end loader, and it was on wheels not tracks. It created mayhem, killing people along the way.
A court in Europe has ruled Pringles are not potato chips. They did stop short of saying they aren't food, which is a shame.
REAL SPORT
Despite all expectations, we did have soccer on Wednesday afternoon. Hannah wasn't in great shape but played. It was against the bottom of the table team, St Dominics, and we won 6-0. I refereed the second half and their coach was trying to spring an offside trap by not defending, it was woeful.
Club soccer was again cancelled on Saturday.
Meanwhile, Rory's Pan Pac tournament started on Friday, with a 9-1 win over North Harbour B and a much tighter 9-8 win over Maranui. Rory scored a goal in both games, generally played pretty well. Then they played Rotorua on Sunday morning, should have been relatively tight as Rotorua lost to Maranui 11-18, so they scored more goals than we did against them (although they let in ten more). It wasn't, ended up being a 22-0 whitewash, Rory scored about four or five.
We play North Harbour today, I think we should win comfortably, and the NSW team ( that our billet is in) tomorrow.
SPORT
Queensland won the deciding state of origin game 16-10. Not really ever interested in that but it is very big in Australia.
The All Blacks beat South Africa in their first Tri-Nations game, 19-10 or so.
Venus won Wimbledon women's, beating Serena, and they won women's doubles together. Federer and Nadal were hammering out a close match, but Nadal won which is quite big news, first time someone has won French and Wimbledon since 1980 (Bjorn Borg).
Lewis Hamilton won British GP.
MY SAD LIFE
We got a call on Wednesday to say that Hannah had actually broken her finger again. Great service, five days after the x-ray. Haven't heard anything yet from who she was referred to.
Sarah and the twins visited this week. I reckon Jack is teething but don't know if any results have appeared yet.
We had a billet staying with us from the Combined NSW High Schools polo team. Cameron, nice kid. Another guy was staying at Rory's friend Cassidy's house, Nathan. They spent a bit of time together as a group. Cameron's parents came over to watch the tournament, their names are Bob and Diana, kind of funny.
It is Heidi's birthday tomorrow.
It is five years today since Dad died, it was also a Monday. Feels like a very long time ago.
Diana has been making a lot of bread to save dough. I think we used 5kg of flour in not much more than a week. The bread is damn good, and it is cheaper than store bought stuff.
My broadband and office phone line failed on Saturday night, about the time of a big lightning strike and is not yet functioning. We found a weird pile of cables poking out of the ground at the end of our street on Sunday, not sure if it is related, they sure looked like phone cables.
Diana took the two billets and Rory and Cass down to Mission Bay where they got some fresh air. I spent a while with them in a mall looking for a Rubik's cube.
We had the opening ceremony last night, there are over 100 teams taking part. I got to climb up inside the pool roof to take photos from above the action in the ceiling of the pool (Paul, you would remember the roof at West Wave, it was quite high).
Diana kind of starts a new job today. Kind of, because she has been doing a little bit of work for them already.
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