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Harvest now underway
Its official this year’s harvest is underway and the anticipation is building as to who is going to get this year’s best crop. It’s a competition between the no till and the conventional guys and the stakes are getting higher. Who will come out on top? Will it be Brian “Farmer” Healy’s barley crop, will it be one of “Jumping” John Newall’s beauties or maybe you might have to go South for a Reading or one of Guru’s crops and maybe even the Jack’s, Carter or Cameron. All will be revealed.

Cricketers back to earth with a thud
What is going on? With such a great win the week before the cricketers had a day off when they went down to St Mary’s at Warracknabeal’s Anzac Park. I guess that’s cricket but the MCC boys will be now very keen to string a couple of games together to get back in the finals race.

Training all the rage
I attended cricket training the other night just to see what goes on and I came away thinking boy do they do that well. The actual training (the entree) went pretty well with bowlers and batsmen alike putting in the hard yards. It’s after that where it all happens (main course) as they venture down to the pub where they serve up a tasty bbq which is washed down by some of Leigh “Blue Can” Foster’s finest drop. I recon they had 20 there last week.

Food crisis in Africa
You hear stuff in the news about the pending and current food crisis especially in Africa and you don’t really take any notice until it hits you first hand. Well it hit me the other night when Norm “Guru” Duxson walked in the door of the corner shop, you see the Guru and his lovely wife “Guru Margie” have been in Africa and boy has the Guru dropped some kg’s. That jacket he reckoned had shrunk many months ago would well and truly cover the beast at the moment.

I never forget what I remember
I have a saying, “I never forget what I remember” and I guess it something that would ring true with everyone but for the life of me I can’t remember the full story Stewart “Smacka” MacPherson told me but it was something about a visiting Danish bloke, a tractor and his wife. Well it was a very good story at the time.

Young Nisbet disputes the call
Andrew “Upstart” Nisbet sent me an email last week disputing the call of him winning the belt at the Ged “Father” Ryan day at the MCG the weekend last. It went like this, “who decided it was I that should receive "the belt" last weekend???? I will admit that i was fairly loaded and can't remember to much but surely i must have had some blokes who weren't to far behind me..... My reply was, “I’m just relaying what people where telling me and besides you have won it before, so you have to treat it as an honour, it’s a prestigious award that many good people have won” He came back with “ oh well I will take it as a compliment then”

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