NORTH Street resident Julie Bird encountered a slight problem the other day when she went shopping at Foodworks and realised she had taken the TV remote control with her instead of her purse. The story goes Julie approached boss Bob Watts about booking her groceries up because she didn’t want to go all the way home and back just to pay for them. See Julie for more information.

DURING recent times, corner of Hill and Middle streets dweller Suzie Foster drove the vehicle of her daughter Natasha to Tamworth to have a service done on the car. Problem was when Suzie went to reverse the Hyundai Focus in the K Mart car park, she couldn’t find the reverse gear. Nothing that a quick phone call to her husband Ray couldn’t fix. Apparently, the knob on the gear stick has to be pulled up before reverse is engaged.

JILLAROOS player Rachel Green was having a bit of trouble locating her footy shorts last Sunday morning before heading to the Park to play against Guyra. At one stage during an extensive search, “Rach” started blaming her sister and teammate Annabelle for the disappearance of her shorts, something she shouldn’t have been doing really, because she was actually wearing them at the time.

ONE thing you should do at the footy is keep your eye on the ball and that’s whether you are either a player or spectator. Last Sunday, Amber McGuiness didn’t take that advice, even when some fellow spectators were yelling out “heads” as the ball was kicked in her direction just before it hit her in the noggin.

WHEN quizzed about the incident, Amber maintains it wasn’t her fault she got hit, but instead blamed Roos fullback Jayden Knowleson for not catching the ball while he was standing next to her at the time before he headed off to get changed for the main game.

A REMINDER that the Jillaroos will be holding their Charity and Guernsey auction on Saturday, July 21 after Walcha host Uralla here at the Park that day – hopefully after the girls record their first win of the season over the competition leaders.

FORMER Walcha golf champion Andrew Brennan recently competed in a tournament at Stone Cutters Ridge a few weeks back where he experienced a little adventure on a par 4 hole where there was water nearly all the way down the fairway from tee to green.

AFTER drilling his tee shot with his driver into the drink not once, not twice, but three times, A. J. decided it might be a good idea to change clubs to a two iron which he finally negotiated the fairway with, although it was now the seventh shot he had just hit.

FROM around 170m out, the trainee professional caressed a six iron into the hole to give him a miraculous quadruple bogey which he was relieved about because he reckoned he was staring down the barrel of 13 or 14 shots on the hole. A. J. lost the tournament by three strokes.

STILL on the subject of golf, nine players braved very chilly weather conditions last Sunday to play in the monthly Australia Regional Bank stroke medal round. The only player to miss out on some sort of trophy on the day was current club champion Wayne Brennan after Jamie Bowden, his son Andrew, David Sweeney, his wife Simone, Allan Green, Willy Brennan, Michael Stackman and “Golden Haired Wonder Child” Steph Sweeney all collected a prize each.

NOT sure how long Geraldine Road resident Suzie Harrison has been aspiring to be a magician, but she was attempting to pull a cunning little trick as she vacated the Walcha Bowling Club last Friday afternoon. As Suzie strolled outside into the cold, she decided to pull on a jumper to avoid the cool conditions, but was unsuccessful with her first attempt simply because she was trying to pull it over the handbag she had over her shoulder at the same time.

BIG Wigs of the Week: Apsley – Jamie Wall; Prime Meats – Jonathan Cross, Richie Lake; Newie – Barry kliendienst, “Filbert” Green; B.C. – Barry kliendienst, Mark Fergusson (all 14 points); WVS – Kyle Goodwin, Kate Lyon (12 points).

SPECIAL mention for Jonnie Cross who not only went against his beloved Panthers last week with success, but also took Canberra the week before when Penrith halfback Nathan Cleary sealed the deal with a field goal. At least you won’t be able to go against the Mighty Panthers this weekend, Jonnie.

NEVER thought the day would come when Manly Warringah Sea Eagles tragic Stephen “Wilba” Haslem would go against his favourite team, but by all accounts it did happen last weekend when “Wilba” selected the Dragons over the Eagles in the B. C. Tipping Competition.