A busy week.  Work for me and sorting the house out for Ruth. The weekend saw Ruth, Ellie and I heading to North Harbour stadium on Auckland’s North Shore to watch the Auckland Blues v the Natal Sharks (the Blues play home games at Eden Park and North Harbour stadium).

The atmosphere was better than Eden Park (perhaps because he stadium is much smaller, the game was more competitive and there are lots of South African living on the North Shore ) and the Sharks won with plenty of on-field incident.

The game was not without off-field incident too.

Blue Beard, the Blues’ mascot, did a lap of the stadium in his galleon firing his canon as he went. Unfortunately to canon smoke was blow into the main stand setting the alarms off and an evacuation was required just as the referee whistled to start the game. I was surprised given kiwis relative disregard for thing health and safety that they actually bothered to leave their seats. Fortunately we were not in the main stand !

The Sharks won 32-25.