General News
1 December, 2022
Finish week with a laugh
WHO says telecommunication connectivity is an issue across the Loddon? The way the phone calls and text messages have been flying around the last week, we know for certain there are members of the fantastic farming community well trained in finding...
WHO says telecommunication connectivity is an issue across the Loddon? The way the phone calls and text messages have been flying around the last week, we know for certain there are members of the fantastic farming community well trained in finding that one square inch of land on their patch that delivers service. We’ve had more snippets than campaigning political candidates pass our way.
WE’LL start with the owner of perhaps the best new esky in the Loddon. The Cockerell has taken delivery of a hotel prize that he collected on the farmer junket north a few months back when stopping off for an obligatory rest (and rehydration) break. His mates say the deal is pretty simple: Bring the esky to tennis fully stocked.
HE DID come close when tennis was played a fortnight back up Calivil way. The sight of refreshment was enough for one regular name in OTF to get a little sidetracked and leave his mobile phone behind. Didn’t realise until the next day, according to one well-informed spy who assisted with temporary recruitment of said player from a more sedate form of sporting balls on grass.
IF YOU’RE reading OTF before flicking through to the sports pages, be warned. There was no pennant bowls at the weekend - apparently some biggish event on the state calendar meant a general bye was decreed. Not to worry though, Inglewood put on a skins tournament. Our spy from a neighbouring club was particularly impressed with overall joint winner Steve McLean, not for his bowling but talking. “Steve made a particularly good thank you speech, covering many aspects of the night and congratulating his club, for taking on a different style of tournament,” our diligent rinkside correspondent reported.
A BIT of bad news for followers of the Democracy Sausage. Have been told the Campbells Forest crew will not be out on election day at Bridgewater offering up snags. Voters will perhaps be hoping for fine weather this Saturday, getting their nourishment from morning and afternoon teas at bowls, cricket and tennis instead.
WE’RE not sure if the bus driver saw the signs, but a certain CFA captain in the centre of the Loddon may well have seen red when arriving back from the paddocks on Monday to be greeted with a political candidate corflute hanging from the front fence in colours different to his reported normal leanings. Turns out, said a quick-reporting on-the-ground OTF correspondent, that said captain’s friends conspired and concocted to erect such sign. No information has been provided on where the “gang of four” sourced said sign.
A BIT of speculation, perpetrators of the fence decoration may be deleted from the upcoming Christmas card list.