Waynes Writings

28 February 2009

Sleeping Beauty

His dark black hair reminds us of Angela when she was born. Looking back at Kipp's early pictures, although he did not have the amount of hair and was much lighter in colour, he was a a little darker than we first remembered and turned quite blond a few weeks later as his hair grew.

Sport - square eyes and a trigger finger on the Sky remote was the order of the night. From channel 30 up to 31 then down to 19 then up to 30 - but how was the cricket going - so up to 31 - and so on......

With a last hit win in the cricket, after seemingly coasting to victory and the Hurricanes coming through, it was sadly only the Breakers losing in the last few seconds that destroyed the trifecta of wins. The Hurricanes still persist in kicking the ball away but Weepu is looking good at 1st Five.

27 February 2009

Square Eyes

The eyes must be square tonight as simultaneously we have -

20/20 Cricket - NZ and India
Rugby - Hurricanes and Crusaders
Basketball - Breakers and the Melbourne Tigers

Maori TV took a punt and got the Basketball and now I see the other channels are annoyed that they cannot show it. How sad. They didn't want it when the Breakers were not doing well and when they start to win they want it.

Sounds like Wall Street, or it seems business and capitalism in general - or maybe not capitalism so much as human greed - when there are profits to be made they pay themselves sickening amounts. When there are losses they want the tax payer to bail them out. As an example on tonights news -

'Pacific Brands in Australia executives awarded themselves rises up to 170% as they were planning to sack 2000 workers.

The total remuneration for 13 directors more than doubled in 2008, from just over $7 million to $15.5 million.

The bill, which was approved last June, includes chief executive package rising from $685,775 to $1,860,649, including a staggering seven-fold increase in her "incentive payments". Her bonus was approved despite overseeing a 45 per cent fall in the share price in the six months leading up to the pay deals.

The news will come as a hammer blow to the families of the 1850 people who were told that high costs meant their jobs were no longer viable.'

25 February 2009

Monty Cartoon

This is a great cartoon. Probably a bit hard to read so it is best to double click each panel and read it in larger size. Basically it covers two major topics of the moment - Monty and downloading from the internet.

At Home

Kipp looking at the new person in the house.

In somebody's arms!!

24 February 2009

More of the Full Monty and the clever clogs

Saw the new one today and he is now at home and all is well.

Here are some Monty moments -

At the top Field Marshall Montgomery - he of El Alamein fame, of which Churchill said of the victory 'It is not the end, nor even the beginning of the end, but it is the end of the beginning'

Percy 'Monty' Montgomery - the South African fullback - he of the white boots

Monty Python - the famous BBC TV show

and of course a modern expression The Full Monty.

The clever clogs.

What is the meaning of KIPP - Old English; means 'brow of a hill or crown'

What is the meaning of MONTY - Old French; from mont meaning 'hill'

They are not as silly as they look.

(But Blogger is - the fonts are all over the place. I use Arial but Georgia is the default. A problem is that although I change it, it reverts back to Georgia - sometimes - so it gets an untidy look!! Grrrr. I think I will change to Georgia Grrrr again)

23 February 2009

Monthy Jethro

Monty - At 3.20 kgs he is a bit bigger than Kipp who from memory came in at about 2.6. I haven't seen him yet but will tomorrow. However, Christine has (as has Angela) and here are some photos.
What you can see is his BLACK hair; quite different to the BLONDE Kipp.