The chooks were finally penned, but were let back out when Mick had some operators drilling for water and after they had struck moisture, and plenty of it, Mick was over the moon. He wasn’t quite as ecstatic when he realised he forgot to pen the chooks after all the action had taken place, and a fox had dined out on them. See Mick for verification of the story.

Reminds me of the time back in the 1980s at 13S Middle Street when I was sharing the abode with a girl by the name of Anne McGuffog. Somehow a chook owned by then Derby Street resident Oscar Steep got locked up in the house at 13S following a pub crawl and didn’t it make a mess much to Anne’s merriment. When released back into her pen the chicken ran down to all her feathered friends to let them know what a marvellous time she had experienced. See Anne for more details.

Council workers Harley Fontanella and Liam Brennan were preparing to lay a slab of concrete at the North Street depot on Monday when they made one sizeable ‘misunderjudgement’ that made it a bit harder on themselves than it should have been. They boys needed some ‘Falls’ gravel from up the backyard to form a good solid base and decided one of the Parks and Gardens tipper utes would be the way to transport it to the job.

There are two parks and gardens tipping utes and another similar ute used by animal control officer Ray Foster, which has a flat, non-tipping tray. Unfortunately for ‘Font’ and ‘Nugget’ they selected ‘Choom’s’ ute and when they went to tip the gravel off soon found out there were no controls. Nothing a bit of shovelling by the Dynamic Duo couldn’t fix which slightly amused urban works supervisor Stevie ‘the golden haired wonder child’ Sweeney.

Former Walcha Central School students from back in the early 1970s Jenny Hung and Dan Gudahl will be in town next week with attending a Rotary meeting on Tuesday night on their agenda. A number of us were in Jenny’s year while Dan was a year or two ahead of us. If you would like to attend the Rotary dinner that evening please contact Kevin Ferrier on 6777 2272.

Big Wigs of the week: Brakendale Buckjumpers – Kylie and Evan Dunn; Ex Services – Josephine Foster and Jamie Wall; Apsley – Wayne Brennan; Newie – Dizzy Eveleigh, Jamie Wall, Jase Latham; BC – Tom Wicks, Jenny Bowden; Prime Meats – Marg Wellings, ‘Kimbo’ Pascoe, Rokie McDonald (all 14 points); Commercial – John Busby, John Byrne, Jules, Suzie Foster, Neil Dunn; Vet Supplies – Kate Lyon, Kyle Goodwin, Peter King (all 12 points); Westend Store – Troy and Chadin Hawkins, Lisa Swanton, Shannon Duck and Ken Martin 10 points.

There is no doubt about my godson, butcher and Panthers supporter, Jonathon Cross being a kind hearted sort of a bloke. Penrith and Manly have played twice this season and we have had a long neck on each result with Jon coming out on top each time. Last Monday afternoon he mentioned before the Sea Eagles and Panthers did battle that if I lost he would chip in the difference so I could by a rack of three long necks because it would be cheaper that way but when I thought about it he was going to get all three bottles of beer anyway.

About a decade ago I had the pleasure of teaching Nick Makeham to swim and at one stage he was swimming with his head out of the water. Each time he did I would tap my head and point to the water, encouraging him to put his head in. Within minutes Nick was doing exactly what I was, tapping himself on the head and pointing to the water which completely cracked me up. Next time you are taking a dip, try the manoeuvre it isn’t as easy as you would think.

Not long back Council gardener Cynthia Morris suggested to her husband Josh that she administer some Fusilade Forte eye drops for him. Probably wouldn’t have done Josh all that much good as Fusilade Forte is one of the poisons Cynthia uses at work not the ‘Fluton’ Josh usually drops into his eyes.

Local trucking company boss Brian Smith had a ball at the Brisbane Truck Show last week to the point where a doorman at the premises where Brian was attempting to enter suggested he may have had enough to drink. ‘Raggy’ agreed he had a few during the day and decided a taxi would be the best way back to the motel for himself and his wife Katie. 

The only problem was when Brian and his much better half Katie were dropped off at the motel they soon realised it was the wrong one. Setting out on foot ‘Raggy’ reckons it would have been a two kilometre walk back to their accommodation while Katie suggests it was nowhere near that far. You know the deal – there are three sides to every story. Mine, yours and the one in the middle that is somewhere near what really happened.