AUSTRALIAN cricketer Josh Hazlewood and a few of his mates called into the Longyard for a round of golf last week and before they hit off, club trainee professional and 2016 Walcha Club champion Andrew Brennan was in charge of getting golf carts for them. While doing so, AJ spotted a piece of sandpaper in the car room and placed it on the seat of the cart Josh was about to use.
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ANYONE who is wondering about what that’s all about must have been living under a rock after weeks ago when the Aussies ran into a few sandpaper dramas in South Africa. By all accounts, the big fast bowler did have a sense of humour about the golf cart episode though.
ON his way home from work at the “Pinnacle” recently, Brad Partridge suffered a flat tyre at the Tia Diggings Road telephone exchange, and because he thought he didn’t have a spare tyre, realised he was in a spot of bother.
UNLUCKILY for Brad, his boss James Norton was travelling in front of him and didn’t get the phone message until he reached town. Back out Jimmy goes to pick up Brad then, to cut a long story short, took Brad back to his stranded three-wheeled Jumbuck a couple of days later with the repaired tyre.
ON arrival, “Norto” was giving Bradley a hand to put the wheel back on the Jumbuck when he glanced over and noticed a spare tyre in place under the ute. When Jim asked Brad about the spare, Brad just shook his head and said he didn’t know he had a spare.
APPARENTLY there was a Facebook post last week where someone was on the lookout for a left-handed hockey stick. Wonder how long it was before Sally Munday was informed there is no such thing. Don’t worry, Sal. I played indoor hockey and know what it is like when you are a “mollydooker”. Former English wrestler and local builder Malcolm Ballard also played indoor hockey and is left-handed, but he found a solution. Mal reckons he shaved the back off his stick so it was flat on both sides.
THE “butcher boys” at Prime Meats have been known to pull the odd prank or three from time to time, and it was no different not long back. Just as Todd Cross was about to enter the building, “Stirrer’s” relative Jonathon Cross sprung out of nowhere and scared him. “Stirrer” commenced a soft shoe shuffle around the shop while murmuring a few choice words.
BECAUSE the letters “S” and “D” are next to each other on the keyboard, that may explain the typo in the second paragraph of last week’s column when I was sending a cheerio out to my across-the-road neighbour “Blue” Hoy, who is currently in Tamworth Hospital.
JUST before “Blue” was about to have an MRI scan recently, he was asked if he had been in any wars (not ward as printed last week), to which he replied, “two – Wee Waa and Merriwa”. Hope that clears things up for the people who were wondering what it was all about.
GOLF club groundsman Owen Presnell is concerned about the number of large patches of ground that need repairing after sizeable divots have been taken on the 7th or 17th fairways or just on the edge of the rough. Those players involved are requested to cease such activities.
