THE new bowsers at Apsley Motors caught one local tradie out last week when builder Mal Ballard filled his work vehicle up with unleaded petrol instead of diesel. When the former English wrestler realised what he had done, he called on one of the service station employees, Don Brooks, to rectify the problem while he shot across the highway to the Newie for a beer.
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HE may have got away with it, only electrician Luke Notley was on the roof of the "Servo" at the time working and phone Mal as he crossed the road to ask what he was doing, despite knowing full well what had happened.
PRIME Meats butcher Jonathon Cross was slightly concerned last week when he checked the shop's mobile coolroom and it didn't seem to be working properly. After a few phone calls ahd been made, jonny relaised what the problem was - the extension cord which provides power to the coolroom wasn't correctly plugged in.
LAST Friday night, the hooter on the electronic scoreboard at Woodville Oval wouldn't work, so one of the timekeepers improvised by doing his own rendition of the hooter sounding over the PA system when the time came. Let's just say the "phantom siren" I am not.
COUNCIL "Highwayman" Simeon Cross received a little suprise while working near "Mount Pleasant" on the Walcha Road hill last Wednesday, and was very fortunate the incident happened while weather conditions were reasonably comfortable, not cold like some of the other days last week.
TRUCK driver Paul Brown was driving the water cart at the time and, before engaging the spray bar, looked around to make sure his workmates were out of range, which they were - except for one. Unfortunately for "Simone", he was right in the line of fire when Paul hit the switch, and he copped the full spray which drenched him in no time.
AS much as "Browny" attempted to apologise, Simeon was having none of it, simply because he reckoned it was all his own fault and not the operator. "Simone" did dry out, but on most of the other days last week probably would have had to return to town for a change of clothes.
After pulling on his cossies, Kit started to become very uncomfortable before realising his swimmers were full of ants.
THE Walcha council office staff members would like to wish their workmate Nadine Powell a happy 30th birthday this Sunday, April 14. Many happy returns of the day, "Dino".
DURING recent times, "Brackendale" grazier Evan Dunn was looking forward to tucking into some lemon chicken he had ordered from the Chinese restaurant, but forgot to take it home with him when he left the Newie. There was a whisper the tucker was taken to the bowling club for Evan's wife Kylie to deliver after she attended the indoor hockey presentations which were on that night. Evan reckons he has not yet laid eyes on the takeway, but hopes if anyone did get to eat his takeaway dinner, they enjoyed the food as much as he would have liked to.
LAST week, teenager Megan Tisdell headed to Muswellbrook with some other Walcha polocrosse players where she confessed to Trish Donnelly she hadn't brought her saddle with her. What's more, Megan blamed her mum Leanda for not packing the saddle, but luckily alternate arrangements were made and Megan's brother James, who has some sort of interest in that part of the state, was able to deliver the critical saddle on time.
TALK about having ants in your pants! With the Walcha pool now closed for the season, Kit Dawson decided a dip in one of the Tamworth pools was the way to go last weekend, which ended up having quite a devastating effect on the "kitten". After pulling on his cossies, Kit started to become very uncomfortable before realising his swimmers were full of ants.
ACCORDING to his better half Tess, the little black ants got stuck right into Kit, who soon came out in welts the size of 50c pieces. Not sure how the "wedding tackle" fared, but Kit can thank his lucky stars the offenders weren't bull ants.
A BUSLOAD of Walcha Council Social Club members and guests travelled to Bendemeer last Saturday afternoon for lunch, a few beverages, bowls, pool and a bit of punting. Anyone that was there and didn't enjoy themselves certainly wasn't making it evident.
ONE of the highlights was when Lee "Pom" Robertson collected five times on the trot for our nine-person punters' syndicate. After chipping in $20 cash to start proceedings, we received the same amount back at the end of the day after punting all afternoon. Way to go, "Leroy".
SOME of the Bendy locals and the rest of our social club crew did not know how lucky they were when Ronnie Partridge, Chris Garrad and A. J. Cross managed to avoid a "nudie run" by the skin of their teeth after they picked up just one shot to avoid the duck late in our game of bowls. Phew!
BIG Wigs of the Week: Apsley - Lizzie, Jock Abraham, Jamie Wall, D. G. Clare, Wayne Brennan; Newie - Nathan Dennis, D. G. Clare, Kenny "Ross" Green, Philip Chandler, Owen Presnell; BC - Mary Haines, D. G. Clare, Jenny Bowden, Jamie Wall, Cheryl and Di. All of the above tipsters scored 14 points. WVS - Raya Osborne (again), Pete King, both 12 points.
