Ben Makisi and more

Ben Makisi at the Inner Wheel Xmas function

Ben Makisi in a more formal setting

Inner Wheel: Today we went to the Inner Wheel lunch and it was tremendous as they had Ben Makisi (above) singing. He was just incredible. Previously has has sung at many events including the funeral of Sir Ed Hillary as well as performing around the world.The dinner part was held in a huge garage (held about 60 of us) and his effortless voice just echoed around.

Fantastic voice;fantastic bloke.

Xmas: Just around the corner now as we enter the straight. Have been to a couple of functions recently including Probus the other night at the Pines. We didn't go last year and probably won't go again while it is held there. It takes an hour to get home and as they hire a bus we are dependent on the time they finish which means we get home about midnight and with the raffle to look after it is a bit too late.


Quiz: When the General Knowledge section hasn't been available to select for our Bonus Round we have taken Pot Luck. It has taken us several months to work out that it is just that - a round of guessing the answers. In future we will take something different. We haven't done well lately but the questions are still poor and the answers suspect at times.

Anti-Virus: Had a real problem. My Avast anti-virus showed a Trojan and I couldn't repair it or put it in the Chest so I deleted the file. Then it appeared again and this time went into a mode of going through and deleting the offending files. As it was finding even more I looked at the Laptop which also had a Trojan. Now suspicious I went to the Net and Avast had downloaded an update that was falsely saying everything had a virus. What a stuff up as I have lost files which are now causing problems. I have deleted Avast and gone back to AVG - although I think that also has problems. We shall see.

Also a friend had a phishing email from Christine's Hotmail account. Looking on the Net it seems that Yahoo and Hotmail (Microsoft) often have these problems. Again not good enough but they don't care.

Survey: Was phoned Friday night with a 20 minute survey. Covered many things - politics, company's etc. Funny enough seemed to be many questions about Phil Goff.

Car: We had to go to Naenae on Friday and a fool backed into Christine. Insurance company time.

Rugby: Great end to the tour with the demolition of France but a final loss to the Baa- Baas. But I think we must be aware that we only won in Marseilles because France played an open game. If they had played the kicking game it could have been a different story.

Isn't it great to see that the RFU has now admitted that 'maybe' they were wrong about the ELV's. Really!!!

Raffle: The Rotary raffle keeps us both busy as it is every day for us but it is going well. We are in a spot between the main entrance doors and it it seems to help. Although when the wind blows in it is bloody cold.