AT: Heard Warrnambool horse trainer Bill Wilde had a big 60th birthday party recently before he jetted off to India with wife Karen. Any gossip from the party?
TA: Plenty, but it's best we don't air it here. One of the guests at the 60th was colourful Terang identity David ''Radish'' Drever. Appears Radish had a huge weekend of socialising. Apart from Wilde's 60th he was spotted at Warrnambool jockey Jason Lyon's house-warming party on the same night. He then lined up on Sunday for Ron McDonnell's 80th birthday party at the racecourse before staying at one of the penthouse units in Warrnambool's Victoria Hotel for a well-earned rest. How's the merry Christmas season been going?
AT: Well I thought I was going all right. Had a couple of functions on this week - three in four days which will test out the endurance. Got a very interesting invite last week from left field - to the Kip McGrath tutors party. Thought that was a bit different but didn't have anything on last Friday night and was more than happy to turn up at Cheetah Lee's place. His lad Jack played in a side I coached the other day and I thought it was a lovely gesture inviting me, so I forwarded the Bride the invite for approval. She explained that Cheetah had obviously made a mistake and that the invite wasn't for me. Not to be put off I rang the Lee household and got Sue on the blower, who just cracked up laughing. Apparently there's another Andrew Thompson who does some tutoring who was probably missing an invite. Up shot of that was that I finished at the Hotel Warrnambool with some workmates before kicking on with Basil at the Whalers.
TA: Heard a funny story that relates to Max Holmes, Nev and Dot Grimshaw. The group left Port Fairy to go down to Barwon Heads for a game of golf. Nev was driving while Max was in the passenger side of the car. Dot was reading a book in the back and had been asleep for some of the trip when they got down to Inverleigh. The men said they needed a brief toilet stop and asked Dot if she wished to go. She said she was comfortable and didn't need a rest stop. Apparently, the two men got back in the car and started heading down the highway for Barwon Heads. After 20 minutes Nev's phone started ringing. He put his hand into his pocket and tried to hand the phone over the back to Dot. Max realised Dot was not taking the phone and he thought she must have been asleep on the back seat. Max took the phone call and he got the shock of his life when he heard Dot's voice on the end of the phone. Nev had to bring the car to a screaming halt. It appears Dot thought she'd better go to the toilet after all and the boys never realised Dot was not in the back seat. When Dot came out of the toilet she thought the blokes had taken the car over to the shop to get something to eat. She realised after 20 minutes that the blokes were not in the shop and had left the ace golfer behind in Inverleigh.
AT: The great caged bird saga continues in our household and the only winner so far is the on-lend budgie which now gets out for a fly around the back room. I went out to Margaret's just on the highway side of Pearson's nursery at Allansford the other day and had a look around. She has about 15 different sorts of birds out there. It was a real eye-opener but the Little Princess just finished up confused about a new bird for her birthday and has decided to stick with her budgie.
TA: How's the cricket coaching going?
AT: Gearing up for the under 15 Warrnambool juniors cricketers trip to Horsham in early January and just wanted to thank Brian Stevens from Fresha Fruit Juice for supporting the boys with a bit of product.
TA: The Tiger Woods saga has swept the world. The innocent nice-guy image has been damaged. I wonder where his career will head now.
AT: I think you've only go to go down to John Holland's Mini Golf in Warrnambool to see where Tiger's career is heading. Holland had a life-size image of the great golfer which is in place to greet visitors to the mini-golf complex. Some wag has stuck thick dark sticking plaster around Tiger's head. Holland is in a quandary. He's just had 10,000 hole-in-one certificate's printed with the words "You're a legend mini golfer just like Tiger Woods'' printed and is not sure whether he should throw the certificates out.
TA: Tell him to give them out to the people who get the hole-in-one. The certificates will be great keepsakes when the Tiger hangs up his clubs.
AT: That squeaky-clean image has copped a bit of a hiding but let's face it, he's just a golfer. Hooroo.
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