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.
7 July 2008
30 June 2008
Intelligent design battle in New Zealand, Spain are European champions, beware of people without underwear - 30/06/2008
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.
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.
23 June 2008
South Auckland's reputation continues to head south, the status quo returns in Zimbabwe, weird things in our street - 23/06/2008
LOCAL NEWS
Two people were awarded $1000 each for being served dishwashing liquid instead of mulled wine. Sounds rather odd. Pretty sure it wasn't an accident but why do it?
Another nasty incident in Manukau with a woman being hunted in a car park after her handbag was snatched. They hit her with their car, she got pretty serious injuries. South Auckland is getting very bad press at the moment, a nasty place to visit and you wouldn't want to live there. Arrests have since been made.
The same day, a woman was quoted in the news telling us how we needed positive stories about South Auckland. You have to admit the timing wasn't great. We do get plenty of positive stories:
- police made a positive ID of the gunman
- sexual attacks by HIV-positive men
- man dies after being positive he was on the correct side of the motorway
A senior police officer was killed on a bicycle this week, he was an advocate of bicycling.
A week after black Friday, we had a pretty bad one. Two died and one was injured in a boat crash. A man was crushed by a digger. Another man was toasted when a car caught fire in South Auckland (yep, South Auckland again). It think there was another event as well, but who needs it?
Winston Peters, who has managed to play a part in every government since MMP came along, has announced he is going to re-take Tauranga. I would hope that all his elderly supporters have died or got dementure sufficiently to have forgotten who he is and the younger ones coming through have seen enough to be convinced he doesn't need to be voted for.
Been a bit of gang warfare going on this week. It came to a head in Hawke's Bay, after gate crashing a party. This was not South Auckland, which was a good thing.
WORLD NEWS
As the GW presidency commences it's death roll, he now wants to open up offshore drilling for oil again. Let's think, he has about five months left. One awful thing per month should do it. How about:
- free maccas to every house-bound morbidly obese person;
- a scheme to give firearm offenders a course on firearms use and a second chance (should create a whole generation of law-unabiding sharpshooters;
- compulsory intelligent design instruction in schools;
- repeal amendment 21 (which repeals amendment 18, which was abolition);
- allow the use of pets, mannequins, and sacks of hammers in the car pool lane (because anything with a higher IQ than GW is a person too)
An Australian and a New Zealander fell 26 stories when something failed while they were patching walls on a multi-storey building on the Gold Coast. Not nice.
Morgan Tsvangirai has pulled out of the run-off election in Zimbabwe. That can't be a good sign. He says a fair poll was impossible among all the violence. Mugabe wins because he has more goons, eh? Democracy at work. When you think about it, it does basically come down to money. Whether you buy hired muscle, spin doctors, or advertising, is it really any different?
Yet again, boating in the Philippines is proved to be a little x-games like with 800 missing. Must have been a pretty big ferry.
REAL SPORT
Hannah's school soccer team played Lynfield this week. Lynfield looked scary on paper, having scored ten goals in two games and conceding none. We'd only had one game, had no trainings for two weeks, and didn't look convincing in the first game. However we scored reasonably early, then scored again from a penalty when the goalie picked up a ball passed back to them from their own player, and then the floodgates opened. We won 7-0, which would have been a bit of a shock to the Lynfield team. With only two games under their belt, Springs are now top of the table (some have played three), and Lynfield is second.
On Saturday, in pretty ordinary conditions, Hannah's team played another team that came up to div 1 after grading. They weren't bad but didn't really have much of an attack. Hannah's team won 2-0.
Rory played three games of polo over the weekend for his under 16 team. They drew 5-5 with Northsport, beat Marist 7-3, and then drew 6-6 with the New Zealand U15 team which contained four players who came from our club. Rory scored the last goal to equalise with 5 seconds left, great effort, he was pretty happy.
SPORT
The Black Caps are not having a great tour. In an ODI on Wednesday that they were going to win, rain forced abandonment just one over before they could call it a game. Even at that point I think that if England had taken one wicket with every ball in the unplayed over, New Zealand would still have won (not quite true, but not far off).
The All Blacks beat England 44-12 in the second test but key players Richie McCaw and Ali Williams were injured, not sure how bad.
And the same night the Black Caps managed to beat England, finally, to level the ODI series. Wasn't a pretty game though, nobody got a decent score.
New Zealand won the under 20 world rugby title and the NZ team got three golds in the world rowing event in Poland.
MY SAD LIFE
Spent 90 minutes getting from Roskill to Otahuhu on Wednesday. No wonder I avoid going places. I heard the Mad Butcher on the radio while I was in the car (and the same adverts over and over again). He had a conversation about dyslexia, which he has, except he pronounces is "dillexia". It was pretty sad.
Kind of scary on Thursday, the invasion of the babies. Was leaving to go to a meeting and there were four or five pushchairs charging down the road. It was for a coffee morning that Sarah was attending. I just focused on the road and got the heck out of Dodge. It was nearly as bad as the weird chanting going on in the front house when we walked past it on Sunday, which was very "village of the damned".
On Friday, went for a walk with Sarah and the twins. I was pushing them up and down when Sarah was in the post shop. Lots of randoms kept coming and talking to me, it was weird, haven't had that happen for a while.
We seemed to be seeing the Chambers family serially this week. Hannah and I bumped into Jaqui on Friday, Allan popped in on Saturday, and Hannah and I saw Emma on Sunday when we were, um, shopping. We are going looking for Paul today to complete the set.
We had to go see teachers about Rory's performance in exams, it went okay, just made Thursday night kind of busy.
Hannah delivered her presentation on scallops on Friday, and does sharks today. She seems to be really in to seafood subjects at the moment.
I finished reading the God Delusion. Interesting, but a bit overwhelming at times.
Today is Diana's birthday. A dinner is planned, not sure how good it will be. Scurvy could result.
Two people were awarded $1000 each for being served dishwashing liquid instead of mulled wine. Sounds rather odd. Pretty sure it wasn't an accident but why do it?
Another nasty incident in Manukau with a woman being hunted in a car park after her handbag was snatched. They hit her with their car, she got pretty serious injuries. South Auckland is getting very bad press at the moment, a nasty place to visit and you wouldn't want to live there. Arrests have since been made.
The same day, a woman was quoted in the news telling us how we needed positive stories about South Auckland. You have to admit the timing wasn't great. We do get plenty of positive stories:
- police made a positive ID of the gunman
- sexual attacks by HIV-positive men
- man dies after being positive he was on the correct side of the motorway
A senior police officer was killed on a bicycle this week, he was an advocate of bicycling.
A week after black Friday, we had a pretty bad one. Two died and one was injured in a boat crash. A man was crushed by a digger. Another man was toasted when a car caught fire in South Auckland (yep, South Auckland again). It think there was another event as well, but who needs it?
Winston Peters, who has managed to play a part in every government since MMP came along, has announced he is going to re-take Tauranga. I would hope that all his elderly supporters have died or got dementure sufficiently to have forgotten who he is and the younger ones coming through have seen enough to be convinced he doesn't need to be voted for.
Been a bit of gang warfare going on this week. It came to a head in Hawke's Bay, after gate crashing a party. This was not South Auckland, which was a good thing.
WORLD NEWS
As the GW presidency commences it's death roll, he now wants to open up offshore drilling for oil again. Let's think, he has about five months left. One awful thing per month should do it. How about:
- free maccas to every house-bound morbidly obese person;
- a scheme to give firearm offenders a course on firearms use and a second chance (should create a whole generation of law-unabiding sharpshooters;
- compulsory intelligent design instruction in schools;
- repeal amendment 21 (which repeals amendment 18, which was abolition);
- allow the use of pets, mannequins, and sacks of hammers in the car pool lane (because anything with a higher IQ than GW is a person too)
An Australian and a New Zealander fell 26 stories when something failed while they were patching walls on a multi-storey building on the Gold Coast. Not nice.
Morgan Tsvangirai has pulled out of the run-off election in Zimbabwe. That can't be a good sign. He says a fair poll was impossible among all the violence. Mugabe wins because he has more goons, eh? Democracy at work. When you think about it, it does basically come down to money. Whether you buy hired muscle, spin doctors, or advertising, is it really any different?
Yet again, boating in the Philippines is proved to be a little x-games like with 800 missing. Must have been a pretty big ferry.
REAL SPORT
Hannah's school soccer team played Lynfield this week. Lynfield looked scary on paper, having scored ten goals in two games and conceding none. We'd only had one game, had no trainings for two weeks, and didn't look convincing in the first game. However we scored reasonably early, then scored again from a penalty when the goalie picked up a ball passed back to them from their own player, and then the floodgates opened. We won 7-0, which would have been a bit of a shock to the Lynfield team. With only two games under their belt, Springs are now top of the table (some have played three), and Lynfield is second.
On Saturday, in pretty ordinary conditions, Hannah's team played another team that came up to div 1 after grading. They weren't bad but didn't really have much of an attack. Hannah's team won 2-0.
Rory played three games of polo over the weekend for his under 16 team. They drew 5-5 with Northsport, beat Marist 7-3, and then drew 6-6 with the New Zealand U15 team which contained four players who came from our club. Rory scored the last goal to equalise with 5 seconds left, great effort, he was pretty happy.
SPORT
The Black Caps are not having a great tour. In an ODI on Wednesday that they were going to win, rain forced abandonment just one over before they could call it a game. Even at that point I think that if England had taken one wicket with every ball in the unplayed over, New Zealand would still have won (not quite true, but not far off).
The All Blacks beat England 44-12 in the second test but key players Richie McCaw and Ali Williams were injured, not sure how bad.
And the same night the Black Caps managed to beat England, finally, to level the ODI series. Wasn't a pretty game though, nobody got a decent score.
New Zealand won the under 20 world rugby title and the NZ team got three golds in the world rowing event in Poland.
MY SAD LIFE
Spent 90 minutes getting from Roskill to Otahuhu on Wednesday. No wonder I avoid going places. I heard the Mad Butcher on the radio while I was in the car (and the same adverts over and over again). He had a conversation about dyslexia, which he has, except he pronounces is "dillexia". It was pretty sad.
Kind of scary on Thursday, the invasion of the babies. Was leaving to go to a meeting and there were four or five pushchairs charging down the road. It was for a coffee morning that Sarah was attending. I just focused on the road and got the heck out of Dodge. It was nearly as bad as the weird chanting going on in the front house when we walked past it on Sunday, which was very "village of the damned".
On Friday, went for a walk with Sarah and the twins. I was pushing them up and down when Sarah was in the post shop. Lots of randoms kept coming and talking to me, it was weird, haven't had that happen for a while.
We seemed to be seeing the Chambers family serially this week. Hannah and I bumped into Jaqui on Friday, Allan popped in on Saturday, and Hannah and I saw Emma on Sunday when we were, um, shopping. We are going looking for Paul today to complete the set.
We had to go see teachers about Rory's performance in exams, it went okay, just made Thursday night kind of busy.
Hannah delivered her presentation on scallops on Friday, and does sharks today. She seems to be really in to seafood subjects at the moment.
I finished reading the God Delusion. Interesting, but a bit overwhelming at times.
Today is Diana's birthday. A dinner is planned, not sure how good it will be. Scurvy could result.
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