LOCAL NEWS
We continued the death toll race all week. We had a 13 year old girl killed by a trail bike near Glink's Gully (where Charles goes for his
holidays) and there were arguments over whether that could be a road accident without a road and seeing it was on a beach it could be a drowning. Obviously, it wasn't a drowning. Meanwhile a diver died and a man drowned in Lake Pupuke so the drowning team caught up (we actually know the 20 year old that drowned in Pupuke, he was older brother of a guy that was in Rory's soccer team for about three years). Then, out of nowhere, the mountaineering fraternity made a late start with a death on Mt Cook. It was anybody's race, and it went down to the wire (6am on 3rd January). The road toll won.
A local do-gooder heaved a brick at Helen Clark's electorate office and sped away on a scooter in the early hours on New Year's Day.
A parishioner saved their church from fire using cushions and jugs of water.
Some Aussies are here looking for moa. Good luck to them.
We've had another baby die, of a fractured skull at 11 weeks. The parents are now telling us how they are trying to regain custody of their other child. Given the fact that the injuries did not appear accidental, I am not quite sure how they expect to justify this (except for something like "the other kids is tough cos we haven't killed it yet, eh?").
A German woman kayaked around the South Island, took her 70 days, not sure it was non-stop, don't think it was.
A 46 year old Ngaruawahia man was shot in the head, not fatally I don't think, but he wasn't real happy.
Meanwhile, since the cut off for the road toll for the holiday period we've had more deaths on the roads, a body found at the bottom of a ravine, a boot found somewhere else (with a foot in it), some people injured in a jet boating accident, a train hit a car, a go-karter died, you name it we've had it.
WORLD NEWS
Meanwhile a New Zealand woman was the first road fatality in Victoria for the new year, which is just being greedy.
The Illinois primary didn't go so well for Hillary, but it's a long race.
SPORT
The last ODI against Bangladesh was a farce. They got 93 runs and the opening batsmen got that in less than six overs without losing a wicket. I would be pretty annoyed if I paid to go see it.
The first test against Bangladesh was a little different, although completely thumped in the first innings, the Bangladeshi openers scored more in their opening stand than the entire team did first time around. I think the pitch was becoming very placid. Then, on day three, New Zealand made the breakthrough and they collapsed and it was all over by the end of the day.
A placid pitch was also the problem at the SCG, although Australia were 60 odd runs behind India on the first innings, there were few wickets on the fourth day and they went into the last day looking like it would be an almost certain draw. Then, we had a sporting declaration from Australia and they tried very hard to get the Indians out, I still didn't think it likely but even with two overs left and three wickets remaining I thought a draw was on the cards, but Michael Clarke managed to get all three in the over to clinch their 16 consecutive win.
Man Utd beat Birminginham 1-0, Arsenal beat West Ham 2-0, Chelsea beat Fulham 2-1. Liverpool drew 1-1 with Wigan.
MY SAD LIFE
We spent New Years evening with the Chambers, but did not stick it out until midnight.
The week was relatively quiet until Rory returned from holiday with Maddie on Wednesday (which seemed to have gone well).
We then had a mad rush to be ready to leave for the North. We did manage to leave just before 7am on Friday to avoid the traffic (which although holiday level would have still been a bit nasty being a weekday). We checked out the stone store at Keri Keri for the first time ever, it was interesting. We got to Coopers Beach just after lunch time. We met up with the Goodins and Clares not long afterward.
We've spent a lot of time at the beach itself, lots of boogie boarding and throwing of tennis balls for the dogs. Pippy spent a full two and a half hours chasing the ball yesterday, people went in shifts keeping her going. She must have been knackered. I got some photos of her in full flight on Friday, one caught her completely in the air over the water doing a super dog impression. She enjoyed Rory chasing her, and then yesterday Rory had the ball and made her chase him, which was pretty funny.
One of the activities at the beach was tunnelling under a log. Turns out that this log followed the ice berg principle and two thirds of it was below the sand. It was a bloody big log, but they got under it, but only just as there was rock about three inches below it.
We went to a vintage car show in Taipa on Saturday. Now, Taipa is a pretty small beach community quite a long way from anyway, and I had a sneaking suspicion the car show would consist of leading people out of the car park back into the car park to look at their own cars. I was pleasantly surprised. The highlights included a three wheeled Morgan, and US army half track, a 1924 Rolls Royce Silver Ghost, and a pink Thunderbird. There must have been nearly 200 cars there. The lowlight was the performances on stage. Three ladies seemed to think that the same dance done to different tunes while wearing different outfits was entertaining (it was, but not in the way they thought). The announcer for the dancing also delighted everyone with his renditions of a variety of songs. He wasn't that bad, but he wasn't that good.
We had a bit of a go at tennis on Saturday, and it wasn't pretty. I suspect tennis isn't my game any more, I was complete rubbish. Given the aches I have sustained I suspect it may be time to hang up my racket.
We are spending a couple more days here in Coopers before heading to a place called Teal Bay until Sunday.
31 December 2007
Fatal cricket in Western Australia, while the Pakistanis work on their fatal politics and New Zealand plays death toll racing - 31/12/07
Farewell, goodbye, and amen, 2007 is basically knackered and we have to get used to a new date. I hate this interim period where you talk about "this year" and nobody knows whether you mean this year we are in or this coming year. We handle tomorrow and yesterday okay, you’d think we'd be able to cope.
LOCAL NEWS
It was a white Boxing Day in Upper Hutt, one person reckoned the hail was knee-deep. That's a heck of a lot of hail.
We seemed to have more drownings that road fatalities, meanwhile people seemed to get more carried away overseas (see below).
Four men tried to drown themselves in an over full IRB with a 2hp motor that conked out as the Waikato river was pushing them towards the bar. They had no life jackets or anything. One of their rescuers thought they were the stupidest people he'd seen in 30 years of rescuing. They were so embarrassed they failed to collect their sick boat, although it was probably stolen.
A clever 25 year old woman climbed a 1.8 metre fence, jumped in a covered swimming pool, and drowned herself. I think that makes the seventh drowning since Christmas Day. The road toll is slightly ahead at eight. Could be an interesting contest.
The New Years honours have been handed out. They are dull as ever, and all the sort of people you'd think had already got one. It seems that you get one if you were a politician or have been in the public eye for some other reason. Stupid concept.
A security review has revealed that Helen Clark's house has been tagged while under observation from the secret service and burglars hid on her section when being chased after being caught in the act. Good stuff.
Novovirus has hit 30 scouts at a jamboree in Christchurch. That would be a lot of fun. Camping AND rampaging disease. Wouldn't want to be on latrine duty there. Meanwhile, Legionella has been detected at a couple of Auckland buildings.
WORLD NEWS
A beach cricket game in Perth got pretty serious when someone murdered another player.
In Seattle, Washington, someone went postal and took out six people. Well, technically, one of the victims was a postal worker so the murderer went for A postal and took out a few others on the way.
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Friday could spell chaos in Pakistan. It gave us plenty of news for a few days.
SPORT
Well, the Black Caps won the first ODI against Bangladesh and then did so again in the second, although Duckworth Lewis got involved I don't think it really changed the result. Last game today.
Meanwhile, the boxing day test in Melbourne was over in four days and the Aussies showed that they are the best and 2nd is daylight. India didn't stand a chance. It has to be pretty boring for Australians if they know they are going to win (15 in a row now).
Chelsea had a 4-4 draw with Villa on Boxing Day, three players were red-carded, Chelsea won 2-1 on red cards. Man Utd beat Sunderland 4-0, Wigan beat Newcastle 1-0, Spurs beat Fulham 5-1 and Liverpool scraped home 2-1 over Derby. Arsenal had a 0-0 draw with Portsmouth (think it was Portsmouth).
Over the weekend, Spurs continued their high scoring theme with a whopping 6-4 win over Reading. Man Utd shocked everyone (who cared) by losing 1-2 to West Ham, after being 1-0 up, Chelsea beat Newcastle 2-1, and Arsenal beat Everton 4-1 in a game with ten men on each side.
MY SAD LIFE
Christmas passed pretty quietly around our place. In fact the whole week has been pretty quiet. Rory disappeared to Coromandel with Maddie on Thursday. Diana sent him a text saying "you having fun? You eaten all their food yet? Been on a blo-cart? Missing us?". The reply was "Yes. No. No. Naaah." Such eloquence. I am sure food is lasting longer around here. There was discussion of him sleeping in tent with Maddie. I am pretty surprised her parents allowed it but realistically I am not sure I would want to share a room with him, and he's my son.
Hannah and I have been swimming pretty regularly, went four times this week. In the heat it is quite nice to cool off, and it has been quite hot.
We have managed to see some people this week, like the Bambis, Goodins, and Coshs. In between we've been doing a few jobs around the house, nothing very inspirational. Diana and I did manage a walk around the Western Springs lake on Thursday. Diana has been trying to fumigate Rory's room so that it doesn't reek like teenage boys armpits. I am not sure that is remotely feasible.
One thing that wasn't humdrum was that we did go explore a large Russian sailing ship Pallada that was in port, it was big (holds passengers and crew of about 180). There wasn't much info about, other than some about the Pacific Fishery in Cyrillic (so, pictures, basically). The Soren Larson was parked next to it and completely dwarfed by it.
Diana and Hannah went to a movie, while I went to the main city library. The Monty Python sketch comes to mind. They have rearranged things and now the novels take up a tiny amount of space and it feels like they have done little more than squeeze them in, afterthought style, after they made room for the teens, kids, computer games, dvds, magazines, and display of native nose rings from upper Gambia. "Funny, you've got a lot of books here"………….
Diana did buy a couch on Boxing Day, two actually, but they are both the same. They arrive later this week. All part of the vicious circle of death that was started by getting the new table, because nothing matches. The next item needing replacing in the coffee table. I am really not looking forward to finding out what else doesn't go.
Hannah bought a bikini this week, which is a bit of a difference from what she wears swimming at the pool (two pairs of togs, it's a polo thing, her and Rory both feel undressed if they wear only one, even for training or just swimming). She is cleaning the cars in it as I write this.
We leave for a holiday on Friday, I am hoping I can get connect to outside world to send next Monday's edition. I may have got around to New Year's resolutions by then.
Haven't heard from Jono yet, where are you, you bugger? Come see the new couches (they are now arriving today).
Paul's still in Singapore, and very quiet.
LOCAL NEWS
It was a white Boxing Day in Upper Hutt, one person reckoned the hail was knee-deep. That's a heck of a lot of hail.
We seemed to have more drownings that road fatalities, meanwhile people seemed to get more carried away overseas (see below).
Four men tried to drown themselves in an over full IRB with a 2hp motor that conked out as the Waikato river was pushing them towards the bar. They had no life jackets or anything. One of their rescuers thought they were the stupidest people he'd seen in 30 years of rescuing. They were so embarrassed they failed to collect their sick boat, although it was probably stolen.
A clever 25 year old woman climbed a 1.8 metre fence, jumped in a covered swimming pool, and drowned herself. I think that makes the seventh drowning since Christmas Day. The road toll is slightly ahead at eight. Could be an interesting contest.
The New Years honours have been handed out. They are dull as ever, and all the sort of people you'd think had already got one. It seems that you get one if you were a politician or have been in the public eye for some other reason. Stupid concept.
A security review has revealed that Helen Clark's house has been tagged while under observation from the secret service and burglars hid on her section when being chased after being caught in the act. Good stuff.
Novovirus has hit 30 scouts at a jamboree in Christchurch. That would be a lot of fun. Camping AND rampaging disease. Wouldn't want to be on latrine duty there. Meanwhile, Legionella has been detected at a couple of Auckland buildings.
WORLD NEWS
A beach cricket game in Perth got pretty serious when someone murdered another player.
In Seattle, Washington, someone went postal and took out six people. Well, technically, one of the victims was a postal worker so the murderer went for A postal and took out a few others on the way.
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto on Friday could spell chaos in Pakistan. It gave us plenty of news for a few days.
SPORT
Well, the Black Caps won the first ODI against Bangladesh and then did so again in the second, although Duckworth Lewis got involved I don't think it really changed the result. Last game today.
Meanwhile, the boxing day test in Melbourne was over in four days and the Aussies showed that they are the best and 2nd is daylight. India didn't stand a chance. It has to be pretty boring for Australians if they know they are going to win (15 in a row now).
Chelsea had a 4-4 draw with Villa on Boxing Day, three players were red-carded, Chelsea won 2-1 on red cards. Man Utd beat Sunderland 4-0, Wigan beat Newcastle 1-0, Spurs beat Fulham 5-1 and Liverpool scraped home 2-1 over Derby. Arsenal had a 0-0 draw with Portsmouth (think it was Portsmouth).
Over the weekend, Spurs continued their high scoring theme with a whopping 6-4 win over Reading. Man Utd shocked everyone (who cared) by losing 1-2 to West Ham, after being 1-0 up, Chelsea beat Newcastle 2-1, and Arsenal beat Everton 4-1 in a game with ten men on each side.
MY SAD LIFE
Christmas passed pretty quietly around our place. In fact the whole week has been pretty quiet. Rory disappeared to Coromandel with Maddie on Thursday. Diana sent him a text saying "you having fun? You eaten all their food yet? Been on a blo-cart? Missing us?". The reply was "Yes. No. No. Naaah." Such eloquence. I am sure food is lasting longer around here. There was discussion of him sleeping in tent with Maddie. I am pretty surprised her parents allowed it but realistically I am not sure I would want to share a room with him, and he's my son.
Hannah and I have been swimming pretty regularly, went four times this week. In the heat it is quite nice to cool off, and it has been quite hot.
We have managed to see some people this week, like the Bambis, Goodins, and Coshs. In between we've been doing a few jobs around the house, nothing very inspirational. Diana and I did manage a walk around the Western Springs lake on Thursday. Diana has been trying to fumigate Rory's room so that it doesn't reek like teenage boys armpits. I am not sure that is remotely feasible.
One thing that wasn't humdrum was that we did go explore a large Russian sailing ship Pallada that was in port, it was big (holds passengers and crew of about 180). There wasn't much info about, other than some about the Pacific Fishery in Cyrillic (so, pictures, basically). The Soren Larson was parked next to it and completely dwarfed by it.
Diana and Hannah went to a movie, while I went to the main city library. The Monty Python sketch comes to mind. They have rearranged things and now the novels take up a tiny amount of space and it feels like they have done little more than squeeze them in, afterthought style, after they made room for the teens, kids, computer games, dvds, magazines, and display of native nose rings from upper Gambia. "Funny, you've got a lot of books here"………….
Diana did buy a couch on Boxing Day, two actually, but they are both the same. They arrive later this week. All part of the vicious circle of death that was started by getting the new table, because nothing matches. The next item needing replacing in the coffee table.
Hannah bought a bikini this week, which is a bit of a difference from what she wears swimming at the pool (two pairs of togs, it's a polo thing, her and Rory both feel undressed if they wear only one, even for training or just swimming). She is cleaning the cars in it as I write this.
We leave for a holiday on Friday, I am hoping I can get connect to outside world to send next Monday's edition. I may have got around to New Year's resolutions by then.
Haven't heard from Jono yet, where are you, you bugger? Come see the new couches (they are now arriving today).
Paul's still in Singapore, and very quiet.
24 December 2007
Parkinson's sufferers feel at home in Gisborne, Hannah gets surprised - 24/12/07
LOCAL NEWS
Sizable quake near Gisborne on Thursday night was the answer to all the prayers of local news services experiencing pre-Christmas lethargy and a paucity of actual news (which doesn't normally stop them). Couple of buildings collapsed, one elderly lady died. There were a couple of aftershocks over a couple of days, one was big but not that big.
Nasty tourist bus crash up north where a bus load of oldies got rolled by an out of control dune buggy, no fatalities but not a good end to a day out.
The dreaded electoral reform act was passed into law. The Herald continues to say how bad it is. At first impression it doesn't seem to be a biggie, but it's not good.
A survey shows the majority of apprehended felons have dodgy substances in their bloodstream. Hardly surprising. I thought the theory was people mostly did burglary to fund drug habits?
The local Burger King got smacked for showing a ceramic coffee cup in their advertisements but supplying coffee in a paper cup. Good job. Kind of funny, when you think about it. If they never serve it in a proper cup then the ad is a complete misrepresentation.
We've had a flurry of "shame it was at Christmas" stories. Dumping kittens or losing a loved one in a car accident is not worse at Christmas, it's bad regardless. How come nobody cares when it happens at Easter or on Queen's Birthday? It's just vacuous and repetitive.
A gang of badly behaving santas forced a cinema to close in Christchurch. Terrible thing, giving Santa a bad name (remember Santa is an anagram of Satan).
WORLD NEWS
We had a weird story about how the Queen is now the oldest Monarch that England has ever had but she must have started late because she has about eight years to get the longest reign.
SPORT
The cricket happened. We don't discuss it. Aussie are good. New Zealand are not. Why have any coverage of it at all? Why even play the game, we know they are crap. Now we have Bangladesh coming. Not surprisingly they beat New Zealand in a 20/20 game. If we lose to them can we stop having so much coverage of the cricket?
Liverpool had a 4-1 win over Portsmouth for Christmas, Arsenal beat Spurs 2-1, Man Utd beat Everton 2-1 and Chelsea snuck past Blackburn 1-0.
MY SAD LIFE
Hannah had her graduation on Wednesday, her last day as an intermediate school kid. They had the graduation dance afterwards, and she got dressed up for the occasion. There were lots of tears, the crocodile was exhausted. I helped her find shoes on Tuesday, but I don't think she liked them.
Speaking of shoes, we also got some shoes for me. They are pretty far out, Nike Air Force Ones in two tone brown and orange. Ten things you can say about them:
- if I walk through vomit, it won't show on the shoes, even if there is diced carrots in there (which is could because they can induce vomiting and are basically a cure for not being bulemic)
- at least nobody will think I am gay, gay people have taste
- the advantage of being tall is I am a long way from the shoes
- they came with free sunglasses, ear plugs, and a health warning
- I can leave my fly undone and nobody will notice
- I did try to donate them to the salvation army, but they turned me down
- Somewhere, there is a blind person that is missing their shoes
- If I leave them in the sun, they should fade sufficiently in 18 months so that I could leave the house in them
- I can leave them anywhere and the risk of them being stolen is zero (although there is a very high risk they could be binned)
- If they were a horse, they would have been shot
- At least when I wear them people know to not ask me for fashion advice
Thursday night, Hannah had a surprise birthday party. What's that, you say? Her birthday was actually three months ago? That's the perfect way to ensure it's a surprise. We've been busy, okay? We took her to Prego, our favourite restaurant, sat down, then her friends popped out of nowhere. We left them to it, they had dinner together. We sat at another table, the other side of a chimney so we weren't hovering (couldn't even see them). The waiter kept us informed, which was exceedingly useful (in terms of how they were going with mains etc) and he passed messages to them (like that they could have hot chocolates with their dessert). He also told us that Hannah had ordered a latte and we got it modified to decaf. I think they really enjoyed it, probably first time any of them had been to dinner without an adult at the table. We left the restaurant about ten minutes before them, bumped into Allan and Jaqui who were celebrating their 32nd wedding anniversary (32 years, crikey). We returned to pick them up and take them home. I think it was unusual enough to be considered a good event. They then stayed over night and proceeded to use each other as Barbie dolls and did each others hair.
Friday night we staggered up to the local garage for the Christmas party. Rory brought Maddie, Raf, and Cassidy, although they were a bit nervous about all the grown ups and disappeared. Then they showed up finally, had three beers each (not large ones, but they inhaled them and they were 6.3%, made by local brewer who we've known for a long time) and disappeared again. Graham Brazier sang some songs, which makes sense because what else do you do with songs? (apart from write them and download them)
We went to another local barbecue on Saturday night with some of the regulars, mostly ex-Rangitoto College people. Went to see some lit up houses on the way home, which were nearly as impressive as the much vaunted Franklin Road in Ponsonby, but less crowded and faster.
It was Jono's birthday on Sunday. I thought it sucked having a birthday in early December, but on Christmas Eve Eve is worse.
Brett is off to Truk for a diving holiday.
Funny how things change. Wrote the bit up top about things happening at Christmas and then Mum's friend Sue Casey died on Sunday. She'd been fighting a losing battle for a while, but it's still pretty sad. Just tricky with Christmas organising funerals.
Sizable quake near Gisborne on Thursday night was the answer to all the prayers of local news services experiencing pre-Christmas lethargy and a paucity of actual news (which doesn't normally stop them). Couple of buildings collapsed, one elderly lady died. There were a couple of aftershocks over a couple of days, one was big but not that big.
Nasty tourist bus crash up north where a bus load of oldies got rolled by an out of control dune buggy, no fatalities but not a good end to a day out.
The dreaded electoral reform act was passed into law. The Herald continues to say how bad it is. At first impression it doesn't seem to be a biggie, but it's not good.
A survey shows the majority of apprehended felons have dodgy substances in their bloodstream. Hardly surprising. I thought the theory was people mostly did burglary to fund drug habits?
The local Burger King got smacked for showing a ceramic coffee cup in their advertisements but supplying coffee in a paper cup. Good job. Kind of funny, when you think about it. If they never serve it in a proper cup then the ad is a complete misrepresentation.
We've had a flurry of "shame it was at Christmas" stories. Dumping kittens or losing a loved one in a car accident is not worse at Christmas, it's bad regardless. How come nobody cares when it happens at Easter or on Queen's Birthday? It's just vacuous and repetitive.
A gang of badly behaving santas forced a cinema to close in Christchurch. Terrible thing, giving Santa a bad name (remember Santa is an anagram of Satan).
WORLD NEWS
We had a weird story about how the Queen is now the oldest Monarch that England has ever had but she must have started late because she has about eight years to get the longest reign.
SPORT
The cricket happened. We don't discuss it. Aussie are good. New Zealand are not. Why have any coverage of it at all? Why even play the game, we know they are crap. Now we have Bangladesh coming. Not surprisingly they beat New Zealand in a 20/20 game. If we lose to them can we stop having so much coverage of the cricket?
Liverpool had a 4-1 win over Portsmouth for Christmas, Arsenal beat Spurs 2-1, Man Utd beat Everton 2-1 and Chelsea snuck past Blackburn 1-0.
MY SAD LIFE
Hannah had her graduation on Wednesday, her last day as an intermediate school kid. They had the graduation dance afterwards, and she got dressed up for the occasion. There were lots of tears, the crocodile was exhausted. I helped her find shoes on Tuesday, but I don't think she liked them.
Speaking of shoes, we also got some shoes for me. They are pretty far out, Nike Air Force Ones in two tone brown and orange. Ten things you can say about them:
- if I walk through vomit, it won't show on the shoes, even if there is diced carrots in there (which is could because they can induce vomiting and are basically a cure for not being bulemic)
- at least nobody will think I am gay, gay people have taste
- the advantage of being tall is I am a long way from the shoes
- they came with free sunglasses, ear plugs, and a health warning
- I can leave my fly undone and nobody will notice
- I did try to donate them to the salvation army, but they turned me down
- Somewhere, there is a blind person that is missing their shoes
- If I leave them in the sun, they should fade sufficiently in 18 months so that I could leave the house in them
- I can leave them anywhere and the risk of them being stolen is zero (although there is a very high risk they could be binned)
- If they were a horse, they would have been shot
- At least when I wear them people know to not ask me for fashion advice
Thursday night, Hannah had a surprise birthday party. What's that, you say? Her birthday was actually three months ago? That's the perfect way to ensure it's a surprise. We've been busy, okay? We took her to Prego, our favourite restaurant, sat down, then her friends popped out of nowhere. We left them to it, they had dinner together. We sat at another table, the other side of a chimney so we weren't hovering (couldn't even see them). The waiter kept us informed, which was exceedingly useful (in terms of how they were going with mains etc) and he passed messages to them (like that they could have hot chocolates with their dessert). He also told us that Hannah had ordered a latte and we got it modified to decaf. I think they really enjoyed it, probably first time any of them had been to dinner without an adult at the table. We left the restaurant about ten minutes before them, bumped into Allan and Jaqui who were celebrating their 32nd wedding anniversary (32 years, crikey). We returned to pick them up and take them home. I think it was unusual enough to be considered a good event. They then stayed over night and proceeded to use each other as Barbie dolls and did each others hair.
Friday night we staggered up to the local garage for the Christmas party. Rory brought Maddie, Raf, and Cassidy, although they were a bit nervous about all the grown ups and disappeared. Then they showed up finally, had three beers each (not large ones, but they inhaled them and they were 6.3%, made by local brewer who we've known for a long time) and disappeared again. Graham Brazier sang some songs, which makes sense because what else do you do with songs? (apart from write them and download them)
We went to another local barbecue on Saturday night with some of the regulars, mostly ex-Rangitoto College people. Went to see some lit up houses on the way home, which were nearly as impressive as the much vaunted Franklin Road in Ponsonby, but less crowded and faster.
It was Jono's birthday on Sunday. I thought it sucked having a birthday in early December, but on Christmas Eve Eve is worse.
Brett is off to Truk for a diving holiday.
Funny how things change. Wrote the bit up top about things happening at Christmas and then Mum's friend Sue Casey died on Sunday. She'd been fighting a losing battle for a while, but it's still pretty sad. Just tricky with Christmas organising funerals.
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