NOT long later Marg suddenly remembered she hadn’t put her footy card in at the Bowling Club so off again to get that job done. When she arrived at the club, Deon reminded Margaret she could have quite easily left it to the following day as the club was open for Good Friday, something president Maureen Duck had mentioned while the raffles were being run earlier in the night. No doubt when Margaret made it home it would haven been time for a good lie down.

USUALLY when the council office is closed for an extended period of time due to holidays, a sign is put up in the front window to inform people when council will re-open. That was no different for Easter with office staff member Sarah Rabbitt left in charge this time around. After putting up the sign, Sarah headed off for lunch but was a bit sheepish when she returned a little later to find she had put up a blank sheet in the window instead of one with all the info on it.

LAST week it was reported on the front page of the Walcha News that former Walcha Council director of Environmental Services Gerry Moran spent five years with Broke Council to kick off his Health and Building Inspector career. That wasn’t the case it was in fact Broken Hill and I can’t even blame the girls at the office for the misprint because when I checked out the original, hand written copy that’s exactly what it looked like – Broke. Sorry about that Gerry.

BEFORE Armidale Express manager Lorraine Coffey retired she wanted me to type all my contributions to the Walcha News instead of hand writing them. Considering most weeks there are 10 to 12 A4 writing pad pages written, I politely informed her that it wasn’t going to happen simply because there wouldn’t be enough time between Walcha News editions for me to get that job done. It certainly might help the girls at times when they are sorting out my scribble.

PROBABLY brings back memories for ‘Ivybank’ grazier Allan Green who was left in charge of cooking duties at a New Year’s party a few years ago at the Pakington Street residence of Wayne and Cathy Brennan. That day ‘Greeny’ had half a sheep cooking on a ‘Webber’ barbecue and when Cathy suggested there was fair bit of smoke coming out of it Allan reassured her that was the way the ‘Webber’ worked. Wrong – the people who attended the party didn’t get to eat much lamb; the chicken wings weren’t too bad though.

A COUPLE of weeks back there was a story about ‘Wendouree’ grazier Cecil Dunn losing his new reading glasses into a grain hammer mill and that the eyesight of his stock might improve because of it. When Cecil began to read the story he immediately thought it might have been about another incident that happened around the same time.

AS Cecil was walking down the street from the Walcha General Practise clinic he bumped into Noel Breeze and after a short ‘chin wag’ thanked Noel for pulling him up as he had left his glasses at the surgery and would have to walk back to get them. On investigation Cecil hadn’t left his spectacles and was wearing his sunglasses over the top of his reading glasses saving a stroll back to the surgery.

RUMOUR has it that Manly tragic David Garth Clare had a bit of trouble zipping up his jacket as he left the Bowling Club to walk home the other day. Shortly after commencing his journey, Davie realised his car was parked outside the club and that his much better half Pam was still inside. Put it this way, it didn’t take much convincing before DGC re-entered the Bowling Club. Not sure if the jacket was zipped up or not.

BIG Wigs of the Week - Prime Meats: Willy Wicks 14 points and had the Panthers rounded up the Cowboys on Monday night he would have picked the card; Ex Services: Jayne Dunn 14 points; West End Store: Lisa Swanton, Shauna Hawkins 12 points; Newie: Bicy Bullock, Petra Evans, Kieran all 12 points although 10 players who didn’t put their card in received 14 points; Brackendale Buckjumpers: Kylie Dunn, Harry Marchant, Thomas McAlister 10 points; Vet Supplies: Kyle Goodwin, Bonnie Smith 10 points; Apsley: Neil Dark 10 points; Bowling Club: Holley Bennett, Tom Wicks, Peter Hayes, Mick Steep, Red Hoy, Gerry Moran, Barry Kliendienst, Emma Hillier, Lisa Swanton, Jarryd Bird 10 points.

THE tipping competition with the most players still has a rule that can reward people who don’t put a card in by giving them the away teams for that week. Most competitions give such players the lowest points for the week the fairest way of doing it but the 10 who didn’t put a card in at the Newie and received 14 points are probably happy with the rule. Some punters think the rule is a joke but the bottom line is according to chief organiser Desiree if you don’t like the Newie rules you don’t have to enter the competition.