THE same bloke was concrete grinding the footpath outside the Royal Café last Thursday and when the morning tea adjournment arrived at 9.30am he decided to take a break in the nearby park. After pouring a cup of tea he soon realised that the ‘hot’ water in his thermos was instead ‘warm’ as it hadn’t been filled that morning but the previous day and not used. No one needed to know but after telling Noel Breeze he suggested it probably should make this column - and it has.

ALTHOUGH he was fighting out of his weight division last Saturday afternoon Walcha soccer player Ricky Brown wasn’t taking a backward step against a North’s opponent who was reported to be just under seven feet tall. A few onlookers thought it was quite amusing when the home team monster grabbed Brownie with two hands by the throat and immobilised him periodically.

THE Walcha News girls look after my spelling mistakes each week but a couple of weeks ago I didn’t want them to do a spell check on the word ‘Shampoo’. The story was about the sign at the Recycle Depot, which they changed to shampoo. The sign still invites anyone with ‘Shapmoo’ bottles to put them in that certain bin.

WHEN you play with fire sometimes there will be fingers burnt and Tony Asmus is in line for it to happen a couple of times after playing some little tricks lately. First up at the recent Timber Expo ‘Larry’ ‘assisted’ Peter Norbury in bidding for a $100 voucher from the Apsley Hotel but that’s not where it finished. When Pete took his family for a meal he approached barman Wayne Boyd about cutting out some of the voucher he had paid for entirely instead of paying the bill. ‘Pothole’ informed him that Expo secretary ‘Larry’ had already been in and there was only $47.60 left. Luckily for Peter a little while earlier Tony had been in and teed up ‘Pothole’ to play the game.