Mortified building. Beware all who are thinking of entering here.
Traumatic rugby countdown
My wife and I were invited to a corporate box for the first time by friends on Saturday night at Eden Park to watch the footy - all was going well and we were feeling very special until I removed the envelope with the tickets in it, and presented the ticket lady with ... two Countdown Dreamworks cards. (wife mortified, I thought it hilarious). In our haste to get away I had picked up the envelope intended to be sent to a friend's kids in Tauranga. To complicate the situation, the footy people said it would be fine as long as someone could take a photo of the tickets and text it through. Unfortunately my 80-year-old babysitting mother-in-law cannot operate a microwave let alone a smartphone. Order was restored after several phone calls, and we watched a great Blues victory while sipping wine and eating lamb shanks.
Is that a ferret down your trousers?
What is ferret legging? According to Wikipedia it is an endurance test or stunt in which ferrets are trapped in trousers worn by a participant. Also known as "put 'em down" and "ferret-down-trousers", it is a sport that seems to have been popular among coal miners in Yorkshire, England. The world record is five hours and 30 minutes. The sport is said to involve very little "native skill", simply an ability to "have your tool bitten and not care".
