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Another week
It’s been a hectic couple of weeks for this struggling little reporter having being diverted away from my main role in life – writing this column. So I do apologise for missing last week, I know its slack as it only takes about an hour to write and if you can’t find an hour a week there is something dramatically wrong. Anyway back into it........
Big show
I had the privilege of attending Paula Duxson’s 40th birthday on Saturday night and boy was that an event to be seen at. A few natives made the journey in what was an unforgettable night (unless you drank too much). Undoubtedly the highlight of the night was the pole dancing (moment of madness) episode by Pistols Tavern proprietor Glen “Wally” Brear. A study of the actual pole on Sunday made the gig even more impressive because Wally isn’t what you would call “small” and the supports would have been stretched. I might even be able to print photos next week.
In the rush to the bar
Cock sparrow Andrew “Upstart” Nisbet made a wrong decision the other day in his “usual” rush to the bar. He was attending his Grandmother’s funeral in Yarram when he decided to disperse of his newly acquired suit jacket. So on his way to the bar piffed the jacket through the window of John and Joys blue Magna. That was fine, the night went to plan but when young Nisbet got up in the morning and asked Joy before they left could she get his jacket out of the back seat of the car. Joy said “but Andrew we didn’t take our car to the funeral”. Oh f@#*who’s car did I throw my new jacket in. Soon Fruity arrives back from the golf club, Upstart relayed the story and Fruity said he spotted a Magna like theirs out at the golf club. So Young Nisbet jumped in his car and went out for a look and sure enough here was the blue Magna still with its windows down and yes the jacket was present. End of message
Cricketers off to a slow start
The MCC boys are off to a bit of a slow start having lost the first two games but hopefully a turnaround is not too far away. Ably led by Gary “Councillor Larry” Cameron and his combination of age and youth, I’m sure they will get going soon.
Guru’s arrives home
Local Gurus, Norm “Guru” Duxson and his lovely wife “Guru Margie” arrived back in the country from their sojourn to Africa. I am looking forward to a rundown on how the trip went. Local funny man Stewart “Smacka” MacPherson is adamant Guru was heading to his native country and would be swinging from the trees with his cousins.
Did they swill on the hill?
I’m not sure how the swill-on-the-hill went as my spies have been a bit slack lately. I only want to know if anyone swilled once too often!!
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Monday, October 27, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
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Welcome again
Hello all and welcome to another week of the SLF, this weeks will be short and sweet because I have to catch a plane to WA, so here we go......
And the winner is...........Marnoo
Marnoo has taken out the Victorian Tidy Towns Zero Waste Award for 2008. Details are sketchy at the time of writing but I am told it’s a highly rated award and one “Chips” Fearon is a very happy chappie. I’m told his contribution to this award has been huge and we congratulated him on a wonderful effort.
Sale week a winner
It was a chance for the local ram breeders to line their pockets with some much needed funds and they duly did just that, the sales this year were well supported with some very big results recorded considering the less than favourable seasonal conditions in most areas. The Navy Blues Supporter group maintained there squeaky clean image with another top catering performance, so well done to all involved there.
Next stop Mt Bolangum
The next show for the active Navy Blues supporter group is the “Swill on the hill” atop our favourite mountain Mt Bolangum, this event wasn’t heavily patronised last year so the group is looking to increase the numbers and they can assure that everyone will have a great day.
Herbie leads the way
Armand “Herbie” Duxson let a team of consumers through the Marnoo pub last Saturday night on the way home from a bucks show at Murtoa races. Details are sketchy but they provided plenty of entertainment for local publican Leigh “Blue Can” Foster, you can sort of imagine what sort of entertainment I am talking about!!!
Smacka still alive
I had a facebook message from Stewart “Smacka” MacPherson who is riding a push bike around Cambodia, he tells me his bottom is like a “worn out old catcher’s mitt”. He says he is having lots of fun with cheap booze and he has even taken to the local cuisine having had fried tarantula!!!!
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Welcome again
Hello all and welcome to another week of the SLF, this weeks will be short and sweet because I have to catch a plane to WA, so here we go......
And the winner is...........Marnoo
Marnoo has taken out the Victorian Tidy Towns Zero Waste Award for 2008. Details are sketchy at the time of writing but I am told it’s a highly rated award and one “Chips” Fearon is a very happy chappie. I’m told his contribution to this award has been huge and we congratulated him on a wonderful effort.
Sale week a winner
It was a chance for the local ram breeders to line their pockets with some much needed funds and they duly did just that, the sales this year were well supported with some very big results recorded considering the less than favourable seasonal conditions in most areas. The Navy Blues Supporter group maintained there squeaky clean image with another top catering performance, so well done to all involved there.
Next stop Mt Bolangum
The next show for the active Navy Blues supporter group is the “Swill on the hill” atop our favourite mountain Mt Bolangum, this event wasn’t heavily patronised last year so the group is looking to increase the numbers and they can assure that everyone will have a great day.
Herbie leads the way
Armand “Herbie” Duxson let a team of consumers through the Marnoo pub last Saturday night on the way home from a bucks show at Murtoa races. Details are sketchy but they provided plenty of entertainment for local publican Leigh “Blue Can” Foster, you can sort of imagine what sort of entertainment I am talking about!!!
Smacka still alive
I had a facebook message from Stewart “Smacka” MacPherson who is riding a push bike around Cambodia, he tells me his bottom is like a “worn out old catcher’s mitt”. He says he is having lots of fun with cheap booze and he has even taken to the local cuisine having had fried tarantula!!!!
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Monday, October 6, 2008
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Here we go again
Welcome to another week of the Ausfarm Online SLF, if you haven’t ventured online to look at what Ausfarm Online has to offer then do so, I am tipping this type of business model will be the model of the future for 2 main reasons. 1) Its low cost. 2) It can reach a nationwide audience. Anyway enough about that, let’s get on with the real stuff.
Corporate Cup
Well what and event, this event just keeps getting better and better and do you want to know why it works, because it’s unique. With that in mind I want to make a point or two (take it or leave it) to the people in charge of the event. My suggestions are: 1) don’t worry about all the individual trophy’s, that happens at every other golf day. 2) Have a trophy for the winning team that they get to keep for the year, like a premiership cup and celebrate it in some way. 3) Keep all of the action on that decking, that was fantastic and worked really well (especially the heaters). 4) Keep thinking of new ideas that make the event unique, remember what people are going to remember the event for, if it’s the same as every other golf day then it is going to get boring and loose it uniqueness. 5) Because it’s the major fund raiser promote it as such, promote it as though people are missing out if they don’t attend.
Corporate Cup results
The team that won this year event was Barham Insurance, they are a company who not only know how to sell insurance but they also went out of their way to pick a top team, all with the aim of winning. All I can say is well done, smart work.
Unique bush tucker
Talking about unique, the lunch time meal and dinner time finger food was once again fantastic and a credit to the ladies once again. It was interesting to note that when I was travelling in the car from Yarra one of the blokes said “can we pull up here I’m hungry, oh no I remember last year we go this big roast for lunch, let save up for that”
Eighteen teams
I think it was 18 teams that graced the Royal turf over the weekend and many travelled a long way. It was a little disappointing that one local team pulled out at the last minute and at this particular business most locals spend plenty of money. It’s not that I want to bag this particular company it’s just I (and others) thought they could have made a greater effort.
Councillor Cameron wows the crowd
Gary “Councillor Larry” Cameron’s reputation is building as an entertainer and he didn’t do his cause any harm on Saturday night when Mr President Graeme “Grey skies above” Ellen announced that Larry had turned 40 on the weekend. Not one to pass up an opportunity Councillor Larry did a little Irish jig to the applause of the gallery, he then bowed and dropped his “Terry Towling” hat to the ground and the crowd started throwing coins. It was a “had-to-be-there” moment but let me tell you it was gold.
The fangs, the fangs
Former milk bar proprietor John “Noisy” Nisbet had a big day out as you would expect but it was nearly cut short on the second hole of the day. The big fella came face to face with an aggressive brown snake which would have taken 10 years of his life. I caught up with him at the next hole and he was still in a state of shock “The fangs, the fangs, he stood up and had his fangs flashing” he said in an animated tone. One of his team members managed to run over the snake and they left him in the middle of the fairway and if Noisy lost 10 years then I lost 15 after I also nearly stepped on the reptile.
Start your engine
Former Mayor Derek “Mayor” Cameron had a great day out and was probably in the running for the belt. He was a little bit wobbly on his feet when his lovely wife Donna came to the rescue and took him home. He managed to get himself to bed and put his sleeping mask on (an aid that helps him sleep better) but failed to start the machine. But it didn’t seem to matter though as he had no trouble sleeping that night.
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Here we go again
Welcome to another week of the Ausfarm Online SLF, if you haven’t ventured online to look at what Ausfarm Online has to offer then do so, I am tipping this type of business model will be the model of the future for 2 main reasons. 1) Its low cost. 2) It can reach a nationwide audience. Anyway enough about that, let’s get on with the real stuff.
Corporate Cup
Well what and event, this event just keeps getting better and better and do you want to know why it works, because it’s unique. With that in mind I want to make a point or two (take it or leave it) to the people in charge of the event. My suggestions are: 1) don’t worry about all the individual trophy’s, that happens at every other golf day. 2) Have a trophy for the winning team that they get to keep for the year, like a premiership cup and celebrate it in some way. 3) Keep all of the action on that decking, that was fantastic and worked really well (especially the heaters). 4) Keep thinking of new ideas that make the event unique, remember what people are going to remember the event for, if it’s the same as every other golf day then it is going to get boring and loose it uniqueness. 5) Because it’s the major fund raiser promote it as such, promote it as though people are missing out if they don’t attend.
Corporate Cup results
The team that won this year event was Barham Insurance, they are a company who not only know how to sell insurance but they also went out of their way to pick a top team, all with the aim of winning. All I can say is well done, smart work.
Unique bush tucker
Talking about unique, the lunch time meal and dinner time finger food was once again fantastic and a credit to the ladies once again. It was interesting to note that when I was travelling in the car from Yarra one of the blokes said “can we pull up here I’m hungry, oh no I remember last year we go this big roast for lunch, let save up for that”
Eighteen teams
I think it was 18 teams that graced the Royal turf over the weekend and many travelled a long way. It was a little disappointing that one local team pulled out at the last minute and at this particular business most locals spend plenty of money. It’s not that I want to bag this particular company it’s just I (and others) thought they could have made a greater effort.
Councillor Cameron wows the crowd
Gary “Councillor Larry” Cameron’s reputation is building as an entertainer and he didn’t do his cause any harm on Saturday night when Mr President Graeme “Grey skies above” Ellen announced that Larry had turned 40 on the weekend. Not one to pass up an opportunity Councillor Larry did a little Irish jig to the applause of the gallery, he then bowed and dropped his “Terry Towling” hat to the ground and the crowd started throwing coins. It was a “had-to-be-there” moment but let me tell you it was gold.
The fangs, the fangs
Former milk bar proprietor John “Noisy” Nisbet had a big day out as you would expect but it was nearly cut short on the second hole of the day. The big fella came face to face with an aggressive brown snake which would have taken 10 years of his life. I caught up with him at the next hole and he was still in a state of shock “The fangs, the fangs, he stood up and had his fangs flashing” he said in an animated tone. One of his team members managed to run over the snake and they left him in the middle of the fairway and if Noisy lost 10 years then I lost 15 after I also nearly stepped on the reptile.
Start your engine
Former Mayor Derek “Mayor” Cameron had a great day out and was probably in the running for the belt. He was a little bit wobbly on his feet when his lovely wife Donna came to the rescue and took him home. He managed to get himself to bed and put his sleeping mask on (an aid that helps him sleep better) but failed to start the machine. But it didn’t seem to matter though as he had no trouble sleeping that night.
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