We are still in the finals
“Where are we playing the next final?” I asked. He said, “Wandella”.
It is amazing the difference that hearing aids make. Both our teams had a win at Hay on Saturday (I finally found out where we had to go).
Well done to all those involved.
Both teams get a week off and the we play the loser of this week’s game. We had to call four of the Mighty Magoos team up for our first final due to injury and sickness.
Thank you to those four, you may be still in the team in two weeks. It is finals and no one is safe. The best team has to run out there. Head over to Wandella and cheer them on in two weeks.
Reconnecting rivers
WE had a very well-attended and informative night at the Moulamein Bowling Club this week.
This night was organised by the Western Murray Land Improvement Group and discussed the proposed program, flow options and inundation modelling.
They need feedback from community members and this was a great way to get it started. My professor mates, Dr Dan and Dr John, who are helping with the fish in our Moulamein Lake, were the speakers for the night and did a great job in explaining a very complicated program.
I keep saying, you do not get professors with common sense very often, but these two are just that. And they are on our side. I may also have some good news about catfish in the very near future. Watch this space.
I also met Bill Moar, the mayor of Swan Hill. He may live on the other side of the river, but he farmed over this side for many years and likes to keep an eye on things.
He may be an older fellow, but he sure knows his way around a mobile phone and the apps that I can use.
He guided me through setting up a couple of them to help with my weather forecasting as well as my river watch to check flows and levels for the upcoming floods.
Thanks Bill, much appreciated. I forgot to ask him where the new bridge should go. Bugger. Next time.
R U OK? night
COME on fellows, bring a mate – let’s start the conversation.
We have had some tragedies in our little town over the past few years, so it’s about time we got together and had a yarn after the last one.
Come into the Tatts Hotel on September 6 to get the conversation started. Just come in and listen.
There will be a couple of locals talking about their stories and how they fought off the dreaded Black Dog.
Sometimes daily, sometimes not for years, but once the Black Dog bites you, he can hang around waiting for another bite.
Gadget Guy
HAVE you ever wondered where to get your phone fixed, or to buy a new cover for it when it gets more than a couple of years old and the phone companies stop caring about that model?
We now have the Gadget Guy in Swan Hill. My phone is getting a bit of age about it, but it still does all I want to do except hear phone calls.
Which is pretty important to an old deaf fellow, and my cover was also buggered.
Wandered into the Telstra shop. No covers for that model and the ear piece is probably blocked, so you should go and see the Gadget Guy across the street, they told me.
I thought, “Here we go. This fellow will rip off an old bugger like me.” Nice young fellow he is. Found me a new case that almost fitted my phone. He said, “You will not be able to use your finger print identification. It will do everything else.” Being an old bloke, I didn’t even know it had finger print identification. The police look after my fingerprints for me.
Then he put my phone under his microscope to clean the ear piece out. Every hole was blocked, he said. He gave me my phone back and called me to see if it made any difference.
As soon as I answered it, he said even he could hear it and he was the other side of the counter. Job well done.
He dropped the price of the cover down because it didn’t quite fit. To get the new cover and get the ear piece cleaned out, it cost a whole $20.
Great value. He has been working out of his shed for a few years now he has moved into the Arcade in Campbell Street.
Give him a go, it worked for me. I am sure he can fix more than a blocked ear piece.
River levels
THE Edward at Moulamein is sitting on around 2.8 metres and around 3400 megalitres a day at the time of writing and will continue to rise.
This will change in the next few days as there is around 9500ML below Stevens Weir and still rising.
There are also flood warnings on the Murray River so that will head downstream.
Our Billabong Creek has well over 5000ML coming into it at the top and is still rising. I do not know what 5000ML does in our Billabong by the time it gets here, but we are about to find out.
The water takes about a month to get here, so we will have plenty of warning before anything happens.
There is no need to panic about floods yet as we will get a high river, but not a flood yet.
If you were thinking about topping that bank up, now would be a good time to do it as we are going to get a flood this year.
We just do not know how big it will be. I heard a figure of 500,000ML in the Murray in the 1870s. I think it was over 200,000 in 2016 and over 300,000 in 1956.
They keep talking about the one-in-100-year flood. No one knows what the one-in-500-year flood would do.
Let’s hope we do not find out. No need to worry yet, but start preparing. A ‘for sale’ sign might work if you want to stay dry. I will do some more investigating on flows of the past.
