DIVER’S JAIL SENTENCE ‘LUDICROUS’ AND ‘EMBARRASSING’
By Amelia Bentley
The Sydney Morning Herald
The family of drowned American bride Christina Watson say her husband’s one-year jail sentence is an embarrassment to Australia.
Tommy Thomas was in the Brisbane Supreme Court today to watch as former son-in-law David Gabriel “Gabe” Watson was sentenced to 12 months behind bars for unlawfully killing Christina, his wife of only 11 days.
Christina, known as Tina, drowned on the couple’s 2003 honeymoon when the pair was scuba diving with a tour boat off the coast of Townsville.
Originally charged with murder, Watson this morning pleaded guilty to a charge of manslaughter, which the Crown accepted.
You probably noticed a lack of updates over the last few day. I apologize for that, but a couple of ailments back to back have me pretty much down for the count. First I experienced one whooper of a migraine headache that forced me to spend most of my time lying down in a darkened room. 
Owning pets can be one of the greatest joys of life and provide endless hours of companionship and unconditional love. We have two German Shepherds, Dagger and Loubelle (and no, I didn’t name them). Dagger is almost 14 years old and Loubelle is 4 years old. They provide countless hours of entertainment, security and on the rare occasion, great irritability. Like when you have the entire family coming over for dinner and you have just spent two days cleaning and cooking then one of them decides that they just have to have a bout of projectile diarrhea a half an hour before the family arrives – in the middle of the living room. Nothing smells quite like the aroma of liquid doggy doo and seven cheese lasagna, mmm mmm good.