Day Sixty of being Aflickionless...

MY SQUIREL IS CUTER

(well I'd like to think so)

NO NOT THAT SQUIREL...the one below

Maz slept like a retard monkey last night, so has felt like that she should be wearing a neckbrace all day. But it did stop her from painting the doughnuts or going shopping...a fine form corset top for herself and a couple of dvd's (Edward Scissorhands & Nightwatch)...AND two hoodies & a t-shirt for Russell. One of the hoodies reads "SINGLE...ish". Naughty Maz!

JayJay is still finding blue paint on her...surprise, surprise. Today it was blue snot...how I have no idea, especially since she wasn't airbrushed. She must of been snotting smurfs or something.

The winning tender for Auckland's $406 million Victoria Park tunnel project has been announced. It has been won by the consortium 'V Formation, made up of Fletcher Construction, Beca Engineering, Higgins Contractors and Australian consultancy Parsons and Brinckerhoff. Building of the "cut and cover" tunnel will start no later than March 2010 and Fletcher Construction said the whole plan could be completed in time for the 2011 Rugby World Cup.

Bewildered passengers found the platforms unusually green and springy at Britomart Station in Auckland yesterday, after the concrete floor was temporarily transformed into a "meadow". A milk company spent all night laying 1250sq m of grass - ready to greet the first train of travellers that arrived just after 7am. The station remained open throughout the day of filming for eight Meadow Fresh commercials. One train driver spent all day driving in and out of the station amid the actors, buttercups, bushes and grass needed for the advertisements. Northcote Intermediate students will be next to walk on the grass. It will be laid between new classrooms being built at the school.

A 50-year-old Mt Maunganui woman died after lying for hours in a roadside ditch between Tauranga and Te Maunga during heavy rain early yesterday. The woman was a passenger in a car travelling along State Highway 2 towards Te Maunga - or 'The Mount' - when about one kilometre past the Maungatapu bridge from Tauranga she asked to make a toilet stop. She got out, climbed over the metal crash barrier on the roadside and is thought to have fallen, ending up lying in the ditch. It is believed she had been drinking.

Next Magazine announced the winner of the fiction section of the Montana New Zealand Book Awards - before the judges have even made their decision! The magazine published who it believed had won the fiction category in the August edition of its magazine.

The number of people claiming the unemployment benefit has topped 50,000 - almost three times the 17,710 at the same time last year. Aucklanders account for almost half of the increase. About 15,000 more are on the dole than in June last year.

SIDESWIPPING IT
The Most Memorable Kiwi One-Liners: Get a perm (Instant Kiwi ad); Bugger (Toyota ad); You're not in Guatemala now, Dr Ropata (early Shortland Street); Beached as, bro (Australian web animation making fun of the Kiwi accent); That is a moustache on a lady (Paul Henry, Breakfast); Start a group (Paul Henry, Breakfast); That's how John Rowles (Dancing with the Stars); O for awesome (David Tua); Jeez Wayne! (McPhail and Gadsby); Front bums (what John Tamihere calls the ladies).

A reader who went to Moyes in Panmure with his 67-year-old mother wasn't impressed with the service. "She was looking at a Suzuki Swift. I test-drove a car and said I would go away and think about it and the salesman told me and my mother to 'f*** off' and go and waste someone else's time. I complained but heard nothing back. Great service from a so-called reputable car yard. Mother bought a new Suzuki Swift, but not from Moyes."

About 200 pre-teens in London were given pedometers to count how many steps they walked, as part of a study into obesity. The study required 11- and 12-year-olds to clip a pedometer to their waists, with researchers at the Mile End Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine collecting the readings by satellite. Researchers were surprised by the activity levels recorded in some obese children; further investigation revealed some had attached their pedometer to their family pets.

SLIGHTLY TWISTED
Me not silly, me not dumb. Me stick cork up dogs bum!

AUCKLAND FORECAST TODAY
Max: 13 °C
Min: 3°C (overnight)
Humidity: 78%
Fine. Southwesterlies dying away. (Translation: cold, but sunny. So really a nice winters day...)

CURRENT WEIRDNESS
That Maz now has Russell & Tina both doing little bits and pieces in her bid to take over the world...

DAILY FOF MOMENT
Maz slept like a retard monkey, so has a sore neck and back...FAIL!!!