Welcome again
I just so happened to make it back to the village over the weekend and it was great that it actually rained. It was so nice and so timely. It won’t take long to soak in and then we will be looking for the next rain event. Let’s hope it’s very soon.

Farmer in form
I had a little bit of a “sit in” on Saturday in the corner shop with leading Farmer Brian “Farmer” Healy, who incidentally now has land to the North, South, East and West of Marnoo. He tells me that the country to the North is the area that’s struggling. He defiantly can’t say the same out East as his barley down Dawes Bridge Road (next to Mr & Mrs Hines) is a beauty.

Can’t fool Old Blue Can
Whilst attending the Saturday afternoon sit in with the Farmer I learnt one thing, our friendly barman is switched on when it comes to identify coins. You see the farmer never intended to “sit in” (like myself) but it started raining and he got excited. He only bought $10 with him but had a heap of change in his ute and kept going back and digging deeper each time. So much so that he fronted up to a shout with a couple of washers instead of dollar coins. It didn’t get past “Bluey” though.

Rueben on centre stage
Fresh from his entertaining WA trip Rostron Guru Rueben “Rostron” Cheesman has taken the limelight in the rural papers with his new GM canola out there beyond the Kanya hills (My old place of residence). I and others believe he is turning himself into another Andrew Weideman. Agri politics beckons!!!!

Councillor Larry’s
I was told by a wise owl over the weekend to name current Mayor Gary “Larry” Cameron “Councillor Larry”. Why you ask? Well in that famous family we have “The Mayor” and “The Senator” so it just has a good feel to it, so Councillor Larry it is.

Councillor Larry promises plenty but delivers nothing
Now don’t jump to conclusions, he is doing a great job in his new post as Mayor, I’m talking more about what he gave this little black duck earlier last week. You see he rang from Adelaide asking if I had enough room in this little column for all the stories he was going to pass on. Naturally I said yes plenty of room, I just keep writing, there is now end to this column. He said “right then I will tell all when I see you Friday night in the pub”, fast forward to Friday night and I saddle up beside The Councillor and ask him (with pen ready) what he had that was going to fill this column. Well it was more like Councillor Shultz than Councillor Cameron, I got the “I know notzing”. I think when he rang he was in a much more excited state (no not South Australia) and after giving it some thought over a couple of days he decided against it. I would like to know what took his fancy in Adelaide?

Fair weather golfers
Famous golfing duo Rod “3/8” Reading and his sidekick Christopher “Entanglement” Webb took golf watching to a new level at the Royal last weekend. They abandon their match due to the wet conditions but decided to go around with Ben “Glendemar” Duxson and Anthony “Hank” Erwin who were playing their compulsory knockout in the rain. So they diligently packed the esky, jumped in the ute and listened to the footy whilst watching the golf. Now that’s a great day out in my book.



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