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Welcome again
Welcome to another week of the SLF. It’s been a tough week for some with the fires and I don’t think you need me to comment as you have probably seen or heard enough. Even though we had the fire close to home at Horsham, grass fires just don’t have the impact as far as loss of life is concerned when compared to the fires in the undulating country North of Melbourne. I think we are lucky in that sense.

Mayor save the day
Our very own Derek “Mayor” Cameron was in the thick of it trying the save his sister and brother in laws house which is a good Mayor 1 wood (300 + metres) from the Horsham clubhouse that was demolished. The good work of the experienced campaigner save the day and the house.....

See our daily comments on Facebook
The Facebook site is becoming popular with about 37 signing up thus far to hear our daily comments. One such person was Pete Leneghan the ABC reporter in Horsham, he wrote “just wanted to send you a quick note to say I'm a big fan of the leg and that I feel like I know each of the regular cast personally keep up the good work”. The regular cast are character’s alright, you only have to look at the Hall of Famers for a start!!

Or nearest offer
I was talking to “Smacka” MacPherson the other day and he reminded me of a story that happened back in the golf season. Smacka was playing with Trent “Irons” Carter and Bernie “Light cans and plenty of them” Walsh when Bernie who now gets around in a cart was talking to Carter about his old buggy and said he had a brand spanker at home he wasn’t using. Walsh said to Carter “I’ll sell it to you for 50” the quick reply came from Carter “how bout 100”, done said Walsh. Well Smacka who was listening in was beside himself and said to Carter “you could have got that for 50”. Carter said “I know, bit silly of me wasn’t it”

What’s this!!!!!!
This has just gone across my desk and it’s from a bloke called K Cranium. It goes on for over a page and must be 400 plus word, anyway I will try and use my journalistic skills to untangle it into some form of sense, here we go: John “Be My” Guest has a knack of shearing in the hottest week of the year and last week wasn’t any exception, it was (according to K Cranium) 55 degrees in the shed, so the lads decided to knock off early. A few beers, a few bourbons, a few more beers and then a few sooper dopers later the cast and crew decided it was that hot that they needed to go for a swim. So off to the dam and off with the kit it was, all these shearers and staff all in the dam starkers. Now Perhaps this could be the start of “Be My’s” very own nudist club!!! Anyway moving on, apparently after even more beers the crew decided to move to the pub, the only thing was that some of the clothing was missing (presumed drowned), so they all wrapped themselves in sarongs and headed to the bar. What happened from there on I’m not real sure but I’m told the games of pool were interesting, especially on those long shots!!!!!

Fire Captain avoids the heat
Wallaloo East fire captain Armand “Herbie” Duxson avoided the bad couple of days as he took off to Bali with the lovely Marcia by his side. I’m told it’s a couple of weeks R & R for the young couple and half their bloody luck I recon. I’m also told the specialist gully fieldsman is having some trouble getting his hands down to ground level to stop the ball. Seems to be a trait that gully fieldsman inherit!!!

First game a sell out
The football folk tell me it’s started already but to me the real action starts on Easter Thursday when Richmond meets Carlton in the clash of the locals. In Marnoo if you don’t follow Essendon well then you either follow Richmond or Carlton and which game do you think has the most rivalry, yep Richmond and Carlton. Last year it was fierce and this year it’s set to move up a notch as the Carlton lads think they are a top 4 certainty already. It wouldn’t surprise me if the Carlton crew lead by supremely confident Bruce “Boofhead” Hendy and Gary “Councillor Larry” Cameron have purchased there finals tickets already. Well I personally think they are in for a mighty big shock. Go Richoman.......

Cricket called off
As you know I’m from up here in Yarrawonga (formally from the Kanya hills though) and the cricket (like most cricket associations) was called off last weekend due to the heat. This means that it’s a slow week for me as I don’t have to write the cricket report. I have been enjoying my “other” role writing the report and sometime the lads make it difficult. You see each week the lads email me a word that I have to fit into the write up. It’s been quite funny fitting in words like ceramic, Van Halen, coxswain, bolognaise just to name a few. I’m sure the 15000 or so readers must think this Square Leg is off with the pixies.


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