AT: Managed to call into the Cally for lunch during the week and publican Tommy Baillie had a good tip. Apparently there was a special development school trip to the Melbourne Zoo not too long ago. There was one little bloke who is fascinated by penguins. The kids had a great day at the zoo, especially the little bloke who loved penguins. On the way home the carers asked the little bloke about the day. He said the penguins were even better than he thought and then to the stunned amazement of carers he opened his bag and showed them he had managed to take home a special souvenir home; a penguin.
TA: The carers would have been left shaking their heads.
AT: They got on the phone to the zoo and asked if they had a penguin missing. Apparently zoo staff were a bit dismissive but they went and did a count and found they were one penguin short. The bus did a very quick U-turn, headed back to the zoo and dropped off the missing waddler.
TA: On the footy front, it looks like Hawthorn is going to be a very active trade period and there was a whisper Warrnambool's Jordan Lewis could be trade bait.
AT: I can put everyone's mind at rest, Tim. Jordan signed a new contract last year, along with Buddy Franklin and a couple of others. For taking a bit less than the open market value, those boys had written into their contract that they would not be offered as trade bait.
TA: I'm told Phil ''Possum'' Kelly had a burning ambition to watch the Cats win a grand final having missed the Cats' success in 2007.
AT: The only way would be to purchase a Cats' members ticket.
TA: Possum got a membership at the start of the year and watched four Cats games before putting himself into the ballot for a grand final ticket. He was pleasantly surprised when the money had been deducted from his bank account by Tickettex. Sources tell me Possum even got a bit emotional at the end of the big game.
AT: Any other grand final stories?
TA: I had to feel sorry for the former South Warrnambool footballer who now heads the Saints' former players' group, Kevin ''Cowboy'' Neale. Story goes he was walking into the ground and a Saints fan from Perth asked Cowboy if he knew where he could get a ticket. Luckily, Cowboy had been given a ticket by a friend who could not make the game. He passed it onto the bloke and the next thing that happened was the bloke started crying.
AT: There were plenty of Saints fans crying after the game.
TA: Cowboy's sister Evelyn McKenzie lives in Warrnambool and has plenty of footy memorabilia to give away to a good home. Things like old footy records dating back to the early 1960s and old footy newspapers.
AT: I was a bit surprised to see that two of the Warrnambool and District Cricket Association division one games are scheduled for the high school oval and the Dennington little oval today. That's not the best look for the WDCA playing on those tiny grounds. Makes the argument about turf wickets a bit thin.
TA: It appears Tom Barton got caught up in daylight savings a week before it happened. He told a few bar flies at the Flying Horse that he could not stay around to watch a harness race at Mildura because he was running out of time. A few blokes told him he had plenty of time to watch the race and that's when he revealed he had changed his watch so he would not forget later in the week.
AT: We're gearing up for the big Queensland trip next week to sell a few greyhounds at Ipswich but there's another big trip this weekend.
TA: A group locals headed by Bill Timms, Des Williams, Don Turland, Mal Dyson and Wayne Cashion have made their way up to Murtoa for the annual Murtoa Cup Day which is on today.
AT: They have been going for about 25 years. Undoubtedly the group will remember their old mate Bill Hodges who lost his battle to cancer a couple of years ago with a few quiet beers.
AT: I was interested to see that the lady who held a party with alcohol for underage kids a couple of weeks ago seems to have held her job as a youth worker with Community Connections. I'm told things may have got a bit complicated when it was suggested there was more than one youth worker at the party. Police ended up handing out a $600 fine. Until next week, hooroo.
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