Since my last post spring has come to Wellington. At least it came last week, and we had three warm sunny days, and then it rained a lot, and today was lovely again. But flowers are blooming everywhere and it's definitely warmer. The clocks go forward tomorrow night.
The news at the moment is all rugby and violence. The police in Christchurch shot a guy dead the other night - nobody seems very sure why - but it seems to me they don't really have a leg to stand on. Apparently the officer was in fear of his life and the man had a claw hammer and was behaving oddly, but police are being broadly supportive of the officer's actions. Can't help comparing to the Jean Charles de Menezes shooting post-July 7th. Now that got rightly criticised, but I think the Met had more excuse to fire (on the face of it) than the Chch police did.
Of course both deaths are a tragedy; you have to question sometimes the wisdom of police carrying weapons.
Oh, and Ruapehu erupted on Tuesday night, out of the blue. One injury - the poor guy's lost a leg and is still not out of the woods.
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