COUNCIL office employee Sarah “Eric” Rabbitt was heading in a westerly direction down the office hallway on Tuesday morning and as I passed her she mentioned there would be no need to go anywhere near the front office as the girls down there had nothing to talk about. Well I soon found out that wasn’t quite true.
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BY ALL accounts what happened was Sarah’s fellow office worker Liz “Trish” Hobbs had some mudcrabs for here and requested “Eric’”bring in an esky and a brick to collect the crabs. Not only didn’t Sarah have an esky (must be the only person in Australia who doesn't have one). She was wondering about what use a brick would be in the operation until someone informed her they meant an ice brick not house brick.
CHURCHILL Street dweller, Wests Tigers fan and general all round thrill-seeker Denis “Mick” White has just returned from a 4,500 kilometre trip down south to Victoria and South Australia where he did a spot of fishing along with a few other things things over a three-and-a-half week period. He assured me “moderation” was the key to everything he did.
DURING the trip “Mick” set up camp at “Lyrup” near Berry on the Murrumbidgee River and about 3am one morning was woken by the sound of rain, or so he thought, despite none being forecast. Mick quickly jumped out of bed to investigate and soon realised he was being hit with the stream of some automated pop-up sprinklers he didn’t realise were there beforehand.
She was wondering about what use a brick would be
DURING recent times council “Jack of all Trades” Sea Eagles supporter and part time Apsley Arms Hotel barman Dare Abraham was working at the pub about the same time four bikers were enjoying a beverage or three. While they were there one of the bikers mentioned to hotel host Graeme Hislop that he could see the pub operation was a family affair, which didn’t go down too well with Dave because the bloke thought he was Graeme’s father.
STILL at the Apsley, Forestry employee, Derby Street resident and Chooks supporter Graham Marshall was holding court there last week on what was his 51st birthday. “Gutty” was at his story telling best and had several pub patrons in stitches especially when it came to a yarn about Bob Watts teaching a young fellow survival skills at South West Rocks a few years back. Get “Gutty” to tell you about it as only he can.
RUMOUR has it that “West Waterloo” grazier and Walcha Squash Club president Bill Wake is renowned for running a bit late from time to time but he took it to a whole new level last Saturday. After Bill had strolled from town to John Oxley Sportsground to watch the Walcha Roos in action, he was fortunate enough to arrive just in time to hear the final hooter. To celebrate Bill then walked all the way back to town.
EARLIER in the day after both Ashford and Walcha had scored tries Rooster president Dean Beverage enquired about what numbers were required to win the double.
He was disappointed when told he needed homeside 9 and visitors 2, simply because he had the numbers but the opposite way around.
NOT long after when I told Dean he would get something for those numbers he was slightly bemused about what that something would be. When Dean was informed he would get “Experience” he had a bit of a chuckle to himself as did some of the players on the Ashford bench.
HEARD a whisper Moons Nursery “Head Honcho”, Bunnies fan and Urban Works supervisor Stephen John Sweeney was upset by the amount of sledging he received from his three sons Mitchell, Cameron and Hayden during a visit to the Longyard Golf Course over the Easter long weekend.
The story goes that the trio, who certainly have been known to give plenty of cheek from time to time, distracted their old man to the point where he drilled one of his shots into a nearby house.
AROUND Easter time, before and after, “Winterbourne” property owners Stuart and Alex Blake had a trainee vet by the name of Rebecca Baker working for them. Nothing strange about that except Bec swam at the national swimming titles where she finished third behind the Campbell sisters Cate and Bronte a few years back.
BEFORE the nine Walcha Central School swimmers who represented North West at the State Swimming Championships headed off to the “big smoke” they were lucky enough to have Bec give them some helpful hints at their final training session here at the pool. Something that the kids really appreciated. Thanks Bec.
BIG WIGS of the week - Prime Meats - Denis “DY” Yarnold, Newie Dal and Fraser Evans, Apsley Neil Dark, Andrew “Chocolate Frogman” Kerr, (all 14pts) B.C- Murray Rose, Tom Wicks, Ben Smith, “Red” Hoy, Mark Ferguson, Michael Stackman, Jarryd Bird, Sonia O’Hara, Tracey Crisp, Troy Le Strande, Simone Haines (all 12pts) , Vet Supplies - Narelle Dale, Raya Osborn (both 10pts).
WHILE on bar duty at the Golf Club last Sunday I flicked the TV on to check out the score between the Sea Eagles and the Tigers which came straight up on screen with the Eagles getting flogged.
Quick as flash I turned the TV off again which brought plenty of protests from a lot of the golfers.
