General News
29 January, 2026
Over the Fence: Tales tall and true
Your weekly dose of local wit and humour
BRADLEY of Boort is in the Aussie Day spirit with his Treemendous sign this week. No flip-flopping for him in the lead up to Australia Day. Just hopes he slips, slops, slaps over a few hot days.
WHILE thongs are a real Aussie thing, we don’t believe they would be Queen Carly’s preferred footwear when out training. The marathon runner turned up at the Loddon Herald Sports Star of the Year function on Monday. But not before mum had dropped her 10km out of Wedderburn to run into town (and a shower at the grandparents) before the function.
HOT times over the Australia Day weekend might mean staying inside, keeping cool and perhaps, reading an Aussie book. Some sources say that best-selling Australian book of all time is Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds (1977), a huge international success selling tens of millions of copies.
CLASSICS like PIcnic at Hanging Rock, Robbery Under Arms and Neville Shute’s A Town Like Alice (even though he was a Pom) are good Aussie reading fare.
WE BET a fair few of OTF readers have fond memories of nugglepot and Cuddlepie books written by Australian author May Gibbs. Classic worth revisiting.