WALCHA Council urban works supervisor Steph Sweeney couldn't find some signs he needed to use from the surveyor's shed last week and returned to his office disheartened before declaring to engineer Luke Andrews and rural roads supervisor Wayne Brennan that the signs weren't where they were meant to be.
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THE boys asked the "Golden Haired Wonder Child" if he had a woman's look or a fair dinkum main's peer about before all three headed back to the surveyor's shed. The trio were there about five seconds when "Brenno" pointed to the signs Steph required and asked if they were the ones he wanted to use.
THE immediate response from "Clean Sween", as he sometimes refers to himself, was the signs weren't there when he looked a few minutes earlier, which gained credibility when it was reported a couple of fairies were seen exiting the surveyor's shed around the same time - no doubt after they had delivered the signs back inside the shed.
LAST Friday afternoon, "Brenno" was sampling a few liquid refreshments at the Apsley Arms Hotel. After he received a frothy one from publican Graeme Hislop, "Brenno" said, "thanks, Darl". Wayne reckons he said "thanks, Dave" with reference to Dave Abraham who works there but wasn't present at the time.
THE only problem for "Brenno" was there were witnesses, including his good mate Bradden Jackson, who has confirmed that "thanks, Darl" was exactly what he said. Around the same time, "Jacko" mentioned the government was in the process of introducing a "buy back water pistol scheme" to help ease water use during the drought.
CAUGHT up with long-time larrikin Des Hanna and his bride Jenny while they were in town for the big Bath Reunion. Had the pleasure of running around with the "red-headed one" back in the late 1970s, with plenty of those memories relived last weekend.
Best of luck to the 16 Walcha Central School swimmers who are off to the State Championships at Homebush...
ONE was when the Roos played North Tamworth at Bear Park, where Des played hooker with Ian Cameron and myself as his props. After his opposite number kept using a loose arm in the scrums, which were actually a competition back then, he was warned if he kept it up there would be trouble.
SURE enough, next scrum the veteran bald-headed Bears hooker did it again and, as open side prop, I got a good view of Hanna's boot raking his opponent across the top of his head with his sprigs, which opened the old bloke up causing blood to flow everywhere. Norths Country representative forward Barry Glass came flying through the scrum yelling, "where is that red-headed b.....d?"
BY this time, our mate had disappeared into the backline between "Truck" Laurie and John Lennan, yelling at Glass, "you want to be quicker than that, big boy". My immediate thought was what the next scrum was going to be like. It couldn't have been too bad - Camo and myself are still alive.
BEST of luck to the 16 Walcha Central School swimmers who are off to the State Championships at Homebush next week. Thomas Micallef, Abbey Mackaway, Sarah Morris, Jemma Warden and Sammy Swain have all qualified to represent North West in individual events.
THE remaining 11 swimmers are part of four relay teams which include Murdoc Chawner, Bella Hayton, Bella Mooney, Claudia Kirton, Poppy McLaren, Lulu Thomson, Stephanie Blake, Sienna Cooney, Phoebe Fenwicke, Charlotte mooney and Tahlia Galvin.
BIG Wigs of the Week: Newie - Ray "Choom" Foster, Mick Steep 14 points; Apsley - Neil Dark, Wayne Brennan, Jack O'Hara, A. J. Cross 12 points; Vet Supplies - Raya Osborne, Harry and Pete King, Dion Bird, Jason Scott all 10 points; Bowling Club - round 1, Murray Rose 14; round 2 Mick White, John Mann, Gerry Moran all picked the card.
SHOULD be a fairly big Royal Easter Show coming up for the Scrivener family when all five members will be involved. Father Allan is a log steward at the woodchop. His wife Megan is a showjumping judge, while sons Mitchell and Austin are nominated in a number of woodchop events. Not to be left out, daughter Emily has registered in the crosscut saw competition.
HEARD along the grapevine that a certain Pakington Street resident may have locked himself out of his abode during recent times. Luck had it that nothing had to be broken to gain entry, with the removal of a flyscreen solving the problem. Without giving too much away, let's just say the bloke has been called "Bruce Willis" on the odd occasion.
CHARLIE'S Angels touch footy player Shaun Laurie was somewhat sheepish when I quizzed him about being beaten by his mother Caroly at tennis recently in a doubles match. "Slaughter" changed the subject quite quickly, but it is rumoured that particular information was not to leave the tennis clubhouse. See Shaun for more details, or Caroly could probably inform you as well.
THE Saturday Sevens competition at the "Newie" is building momentum, with the jackpot now up to $1450. All you have to do is select the winner of race 7 in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne and the cash is yours. One entry per person each Saturday.