General News
5 January, 2024
OTF: The post-Christmas offering
BRADLEY from Boort has not been letting the tinsel grow under the Christmas table or forgetting the holly and the ivy and snoozing on the couch this week. Straight from one festive serving to another, he has also found time to erect a new sign on...
BRADLEY from Boort has not been letting the tinsel grow under the Christmas table or forgetting the holly and the ivy and snoozing on the couch this week. Straight from one festive serving to another, he has also found time to erect a new sign on the Treemendous tree out there on the Boort-Durham Ox road. Such fortitude in raiding the jars of chocolates, jubes and mints is clearly the stuff of Christmas legends.
WHILE the flood put a bit of a dampener on Christmas Day for some, the frolics at Wedderburn’s Donaldson Park had some asking whether the North Central league had introduced a new code of sport to sit alongside football, netball and hockey. In jest perhaps, but the hockey pitch underwater was suggested as the ideal arena for the introduction of water polo. Who knows, there was even speculation and video footage to show the five-time football premiership player Adam Postle was in training with a canoe to take on the rapids of the Loddon River and Serpentine Creek. Or was he kicking with the tide?
WHILE Santa had a bit of a break after dodging wind, sleet and all that over the weekend, we reckon the local butchers also caught up on some lost 40 winks. They had hams trotting out the door at break-neck speed right until closing the doors for Christmas.
DURING THE festive coverage in the pages of the Loddon Herald, we tried to capture every bright shirt worn. If it was loud and colourful, the wearer was a sure focus for our photographs.
OVER in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s the jumper that comes in all shapes, styles and colours. You could say they are different to the T. No one really knows who invented the Christmas jumper, however, it has a long history that dates back to the 19th century. Which country did Christmas jumpers originate from? Christmas jumpers can be traced back to Iceland and Scandinavia where they were knitted by hand to keep people warm during the winters. But those 19th century jumpers would have been tame affairs compared with today.
AND then there are boxer shorts. Heard about a few families unwrapping (read, tearing) the wrapping to find matching sets at the weekend.
AND NOW, for Take 2, OTF will be off for a little break.