Last week
Sorry about last week but time just ran out and I was away at Sheepvention supplementing my paltry journalistic wage. One thing is when you go to Sheepvention you catch up with a few cougars that you haven’t seen for ages, so that was fun. Anyway I have been away from the front line for a while now, so I am not really up with it but we will see how we go.

Boof doing fine in the tropics
Whilst at Sheepvention I caught up at length with my old Footballing mate Paul “Tall Paul from Stawell” Hendy who was keeping me up to date with the ins and outs of Bruce “Boofheads” Hendy’s trip to the Darwin Cup. When I say ins and outs I don’t mean that literally but I’m told that the reports that are coming back via the pigeon are that he’s having a great time and adapting well to the Darwin culture.

Early season footy trip
Word has just come across my desk that some, in the group of No Tillers, who were ably let by group captain Andrew “Clown” Newall (Newag) treated the 6 day junket in WA like a footy trip. Top of the culprit list was none other than Stewart “Smacka” MacPherson, his side kick Rueben “Rostron” Cheesman and leading No Tiller himself, Brian “Farmer” Healy (apologies to anyone I missed out). I’m told that Farmer won the prize for the week.

That’s why we drink....
To all those consumers out there here is a story that will warm the cockles of your heart or should I say, cool you body after a hot and sweaty day in the paddock. Whilst in WA on the No Till tour they visited a farm where the bloke had worked out that he needed to cut the straw to some specific level in order to work out how much stubble he needed to save and how much he needed to mulch. Very scientific and mathematical, so one of the crew asked how he works it out and his reply was “I just cut it off a beer can height”. Farmer Healy got a good giggle out of that and replied to the crowd “that’s why we drink”.

Tricky in WA
The lads found out the hard way that a pot over there is a pint and they seemed to make the mistake every time they walked into the bar. I’m told it fast tracked the inevitable result!!

I bit less of Wally
I caught up with part time Marnoo resident Wally “Goodooga” O’Connor last week and the big fella looks dangerously fit after shedding 20 kg lately. He tells me he is aiming to lose a bit more still.

Wino warming his seat
Marnoo’s new prized recruit and leading Machinery salesman Nigel “Winebar” Slee is warming his seat at the local establishment for when he moves in later next month. But you don’t have to worry about Wino because he’s very responsible when it comes to alcohol and knows when to stop. Credit must go to Juuuuune and Noel for bringing him up in such a fashion.

To use a Don “Fergy” Murphy statement, “end of message”.