LOCAL NEWS
Well, it looked like the week for joke truck crashes. First we had a truckload of cornflakes spill near Wellington, and no, there wasn't a milk tanker or a truck full of bananas anywhere in sight. Then, on Wednesday, we had cooking oil in College Hill but no sign of French fries. We spent the rest of the week waiting for something else. It never came, it was pretty disappointing.
A Pukehina woman gave birth in a Shell petrol station on Tuesday in Papamoa. Pathetic. Lived 50ks from hospital, you'd think they would have had a bit of a better plan. Worse, they names the baby Michelle (My Shell, geddit? Good thing it wasn't at a Mobil station).
The National Party managed to dig itself a deeper hole this week. I suspect Helen and her friends are rubbing their hands with delight. The use of digital voice recorders is suddenly very fashionable, despite the fact that dictaphones have been around for years.
Tuatara reproduction became the saucy news of the week, with jokes about geriatric sex everywhere. The protagonist was a 111 year old male that had contributed to 12 eggs laid by a 70 year old female and was then being introduced to a couple of other females. Tuatara live a long time and certainly pace themselves in terms of fertility.
A tourist died in a quad bike accident west of the Waitomo caves.
We had four die on North Island roads. One was on a motor bike, when he ran into a ute carrying a quad bike. Still no truck though.
By about Thursday, the Olympic fever was dominating everything, there was no news about much else. Michael Phelps won more medals than most countries pretty early on, as expected.
A man's leg was saved thanks to a heroic night rescue on Tongariro. Searchers have not yet found the rest of the man.
WORLD NEWS
Georgia and Russia did manage some airtime, despite the Olympics. Not sure what is going on exactly in terms of who should own what, but let's hope it gets sorted before there are more tears.
Tall black comedian Bernie Mac died this week, he was only 50. Pneumonia and sarcoidosis were the culprits. Nasty. Meanwhile tall black actor Morgan Freeman had a car accident that broke his marriage. Naughty man. Tall black singer Isaac Hayes completed the trio by dying at age 65.
The murder of the father in law of the US volleyball team coach in Beijing was big news because the coach is New Zealand born.
REAL SPORT
Well, we had confusion and drama in real sport this week. Hannah's school soccer game was a semi-final against a depleted Avondale College team looked like it would be a default win to us, then they got some more players so we played with ten a side. Then they had another player arrive, didn't tell us, and we were playing a man down. Then another arrived so they played with 12. Like I said, confusion. Anyway, despite them levelling at 1-1, the pressure told in the end and we won 8-1.
Hannah's club game conflicted with a polo game (which she had to miss). They were playing Hibiscus Coast at home, they scored two goals early but couldn't get any more, final score was 2-0.
The team I help coach played nearby straight after. It was nil all at half time, but we managed to score a goal in the second half. Soon after the goal, the coach, Andy, collapsed and had a seizure. I tried to keep the girls focused, but his daughter on the field had no idea what was happening. I had to sub her off, she asked where her Dad was, and I had to tell her what was happening, and ask her whether he was epileptic or diabetic and things while the ambulance was on the way. He came out of it after about 15 minutes, but they took him away in the ambulance. The father of one girl in the team is a physician of some sort which was very handy.
Rory's U16 team had two wins over the weekend without Rory, who is staying away while his shoulder injury recovers.
Hannah's U16 girls polo team played Rotorua on Sunday. Hannah scored the opening goal, and although it was close early on they pulled away to win 9-3.
SPORT
Not sure why there was no tri-nations rugby. Auckland managed to fend off Taranaki. Last week there were some legendary upsets I failed to mention including Northland beating Waikato, Counties-Manukau beating Auckland, and Manawatu beating Canterbury. Wellington and Bay of Plenty are top of table after two weeks.
I am not going to bore you with Olympic stuff, there are plenty of people already doing that. And no, I did not see any of the opening ceremony, live or highlights. I see no relevance of a bunch of idiots dancing as far as a sporting tournament is concerned. Even worse are the idiots commentating for hours on end by basically telling us what we can see.
Man Utd beat Portsmouth 3-1 on penalties in the Charity Shield. UK Football Premier League starts next weekend. Man Utd play Newcastle.
MY SAD LIFE
I crippled myself again on Monday, I keep doing it. Pulling things in my legs, this time calf on right leg. I either need to warm up or do some stretches or both. Too old to learn new tricks. Over it now, mostly.
Ross got a weird text from Diana. I'm sorry, it's the technology Ross.
I got a text from Heidi saying Jan Willem and Janekke got married on Friday (on the 8th of the 8th, so he can remember his anniversary, I bet).
Got an email from Andy yesterday to say he was back home from hospital and nothing serious in cat scan, not even a cat. I was quite relieved, he's not allowed to drive for a little while but otherwise okay.
Not sure that much actually happened this week, it just seemed to fly by. Pretty much the usual combination of physio trips, trainings, and logistical planning and replanning that seems to occupy our weeks.
This coming Wednesday is our 20th wedding anniversary. To celebrate it we are going to probably do pretty much the same thing as every other of the 7,305 days.
Hannah's junior soccer girls play in their final this Wednesday. Should be a bit exciting.
That will do for now.
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