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Welcome

Hello and welcome to another edition of the Square Leg Files. Another week just flies on by and boy are we in a little drying period. I can’t see it but this week we will need some rain to keep things “perfect”, might have to wait a bit longer though. Not much news this week, so short it will be, here we go……

Corporate Cup

The Grand Final replay has consequences on other events this Saturday, non more so than our very own Corporate Cup. What do authorities do? Do they change it to or leave it on the Saturday? I’m guessing the powers that be will have some kind of plan.

International visitor

I’m told that the Corporate Cup this year will feature an international visitor. Apparently our very own Gary “Larry” Cameron will be back in the country from his trip to “somewhere in Asia”. We look forward to that.

Field Day success

Another successful Marnoo field days were held but surprisingly numbers were probably back a little. I’m guessing that farmers were very busy at the moment catching up on jobs they missed out on doing during the wet. Its called making hay whilst the sun shines.

Big night at the corner shop

All local and visiting sheep shaggers got to the establishment on Thursday night after the Field Days for a couple of hours of “happy hour”. The sheep shaggers should be happy as all merino ram sales this year have been up and the Marnoo sales spread over 3 days should go well. It’s only a week away now.

Cricket

The whinge I had about the newly formed Donald Cricket Club, well plenty of people agree with me. I’m interested to see what the Bombay (Buloke) Times had to say!!!!

A man before his time

I am an Apple Mac guy and I genuinely feel sorry for anyone who owns one of those slow, virus riddled PC’s. I have been an Apple bloke for about 2 years now but I have it on good authority from Balquidder Rd, resident Murray “Muzza” McGregor that the late Ken “Fawlty” Newall was an Apple Mac guy all those years ago. A man ahead of his time I reckon……

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Hello Hello

Welcome to another edition of the Square Leg Files. It was great to be back in the district last week if it was only for a couple of days. The season is poised to take off and with the forecast of 10 fine days it should. Maybe after that we will be looking for rain again…..

Callawadda angler

Entrepreneurial young Callawadda resident William Phillips is hitting the big time. He has released a book called fishing for kids and he is getting some good publicity appearing on the today show. If you want to watch it go to my (Square Leg) facebook page and watch it there. Good luck with it all William, we hope you are a huge success and become one of many famous Callawaddaians. Also can someone let me know where you get the book? Is it in “all good book stores”!!!!

Julia not on Jack’s xmas car list

Hall of Famer John “Jack” Cameron was given the Prime Minister a spray when I caught up with him at “Blue Cans” on Friday night. Fair Dinkum if any news journo had of been present they would have filled at least 3 pages with quotes alone. It would be safe to say that Julia won’t be receiving a Christmas card from the Cameron family. Funny man is our Jack

Action aplenty

Trucking magnate turned grain guru Bruce “Boofhead” Hendy is officially busy. I went past Mt Bolangum Grain headquarters the other day and I’ll tell you there was more action there than what you would see in Bourke St. There were trucks, tractors, utes, augers, field bins and people everywhere. I suspect that the big fella with big feet is gearing up for this year’s massive harvest.

Parrots down

My team up this way, the Yarrawonga Parrots went down in the Ovens & Murray Grand Final on the weekend. They had their chances but missed in the end by 10 points to Albury Tigers. As I walked down to get the papers early on Monday morning I spotted about 50 of them gathered around a “twiggy” out in front of the local watering hole Pistols Tavern.

Twiggy vs stick burn

You know it’s funny where you go they have a different terminology for something the same. Up this way they call them stick burns, where as around Marnoo they are known as twiggy’s. Mind you Marnoo and twiggy’s go together as there have been some very famous ones held in the Marnoo district over the year, especially in the 80’s.

Corporate Cup soon

My favourite golfing day on the calendar is imminent, the Corporate Cup will be held on the 2^nd of October this year and boy am I looking forward to it. Our sponsor The Farm Trader will have a team and unfortunately this year the Yarrawonga boys can’t come. I have left it in the capable hands of Stewart “Smacka” MacPherson to gather a team together. See you then

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Welcome
Hello again and welcome to another week of the SLF. It was a big week last week for all I’m guessing as people tackle the wash-up (no pun intended) from the floods/rain. It was so exciting to see all the water around and even more exciting is that we are finally odds on to get a great spring.

Jack’s back (although he never was gone)
When you need a strong voice our very own John “Jack” Cameron comes to the rescue and that’s exactly what he did. Last week the ABC rural reporter lady from Horsham was looking for someone to talk to about the flooding and rain. But to her dismay a couple of people turned her down for an interview. One was machinery import guru Nigel “Winebar” Slee, he said he didn’t want to be interviewed (don’t know why) but “I have someone that would”. So down they drive to Jacks farm to conduct the interview on the famous back porch. It all went swimmingly as Jack quoted “we might lose a couple of crops but the benefits far outweigh the negatives”. Well done Jack

Look what I caught
Now this story was relayed to me by one of my spies and he didn’t really know if it was true or not, but it’s that good that we are going to run with it anyway. I’m told that the second best district agronomist Hugh “High Yield” Russell got a little caught in some flood water and his ute went completely under. So he hailed down a farmer and got the tractor to try and fish the vehicle out. High Yield then duck dived down to where the ute was, hitched the tow rope onto the ball pull and the farmer proceed to pull the vehicle out. Once the vehicle was been pulled out of the flood water High Yield realised that the vehicle that was being pulled out wasn’t exactly his, so there must have been two utes in raging torrent. I probably shouldn’t say this but I keep thinking about how you could liken it to a black baby being born to two white parents….

Where’s Larry
I have not heard from our very own Gary “Larry” Cameron since he left for “somewhere in Asia”, although I have been talking to people that have been in touch with him and according to them all is well. I’m just hoping he will be back in time for the cricket season…..

If you can’t win then merge
Speaking of cricket something disturbing happened last week as ANA/Boolite and Rich Avon/Services combined to form the newly named Donald Cricket Club. Now I remember a decade or so ago when Rich Avon and Services combined, which was the combination of two strong clubs in there own right, to form a powerhouse. Now they have gone and done it again, which makes it hard for little town clubs like Marnoo.

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Welcome

Well what a week it has been with the lead up to the big dump and then the actual rain itself that delivered up to 75mm in the district. I saw many a photo on facebook and water where I have never seen it before. One such photo posted by Bern Johnson had half the MCG under water. I have never seen that. See picture above

Hey Jack the Muddy’s running

Some have said they have never seen water rise so quickly as they did on Saturday. Derek “The Mayor” Cameron and his lovely wife “Donna “Mrs Tuppy” Cameron were out and about on Saturday morning and did make a call to the SLF office to report that the Muddy was running more than a banker.

Filling Batyo

The dump over the weekend should ensure that Lake Batyo Catyo fills if it isn’t full already. Last Friday it was at 62% full. Well what a summer the natives have to look forward to out there, it will give the area a new lease of life.

Parrots lose in wet

My team up this way the Yarrawonga Parrots lost in what was about the wettest game I have seen. There were only 5 goals scored for the day with Albury Tigers kicking 3 and the parrots managed 2. Next week they face (in the prelim) the team they beat by more than 100 points in the qualifying final.

Farm Talk

Our sponsor www.thefarmtrader.com.au and the mini blog called “Farm Talk” ran hot on Saturday as many people reported in their rainfall figures that fell on their respective properties. We even had a New Zealander giving us a rundown on the Earthquake that was in his area close to Christchurch. Farm Talk is a mini blog like Twitter where people can add or read small but interesting posts. All you have to do is sign up to The Farm Trader and start talking. Go to http://www.thefarmtrader.com.au/farm-talk

Until next week