Teams progress to the next round
AFTER another great win, our senior footy team and A and B Grade netball teams get to play another week.
Our netball girls play our neighbours, Hay, in both games.
Our footy team goes up against Ultima.
Unfortunately, I cannot get there because of our September Classic Bowls Tournament.
Hooker had better be quick on the text at every break to update me on the scores.
When I signed up to play bowls, we were second last on the ladder.
Restocking the rivers
OUR Moulmein Men’s Shed is on the hunt for old batteries to raise funds for the purchase of fingerlings.
The New South Wales Fisheries match their fundraising, providing $2 for every $1 they raise.
I worked it out roughly.
For the bigger tractor batteries, it comes to about 40 fingerlings.
It’s well worth giving your old batteries to the men’s shed.
They can come and pick them up, or you can drop them off at the front of the men’s shed in town.
If you have a heap at your place, members would appreciate them being placed on a pallet for easy loading.
2025 photo competition
OUR gallery girls have their annual photo competition on the go again.
There’s generous prize money of $700 up for grabs, across various categories, including alphabet shapes in landscape.
This year’s black and white theme is wind.
Entries close at 3pm on Thursday, October 2, with judging to take place the following day.
Good luck, get snapping.
Tennis season fast approaching
THE Moulamein Tennis Club now play pennant tennis.
The new season is fast approaching, and they are fielding senior and junior players once again this year.
If there’s enough players, they could enter a second team.
Whether you would like a game of tennis every week, or just now and again, the club would love to have you onboard.
For more information, please contact Darcy on 0437 794 723.
New moon on its back
THERE was always two theories about this from the old timers.
The first is that it’s full of water so it’s going to rain.
The second theory was that the moon was holding all of the water in, so it will not rain.
At the time of writing, we are forecast to get up to 10ml or so before the weekend.
Another old timer’s theory was that once the barley grass goes to head, the season is over.
Most of the barley grass in our paddocks has put up the white flag and called it a year.
Let’s see what happens.
September classic live
I AM sure all our wives will tune into our live telecast of the last two games as well as the finals this Sunday.
I do not know much about this, but if you go to www.youtube.com/@thebowlsbroadcast you will be able to tune in.
I will try it while I’m watching someone else play in the finals.
Pigeon update
WE’VE got to the pointy end of our Moulamein Bowling Club pigeon racing group.
We have had a few trials, and now the real racing has started.
We had a bonus as they checked all of the pigeons before the first race.
Sir Flapalot went off the electric clock at the start of the trial races, so we declared him gone.
His electric leg band stopped working, so we had nine of our original 12.
We did not win the first race, but Needles came in about 50th – only two minutes behind the winner.
Unfortunately, one of our team members went missing, with Jagger choosing to poop on statues instead of coming home.
So, we are back down to eight of our original 12 once again.
River levels
THE Edward has started to drop.
It’s now at 1.2 metres, and just over 800 megs a day.
It will continue to drop slowly this week.
The cod are still going up in the Murrumbidgee at Hay and Maude – not quite like they were but there’s still a bit of fun to be had.
There was a 60cm cod caught and released just down from the bridge in Moulamein on Saturday.
It was caught on chicken soaked in soy sauce for bait.
The days of digging up a few worms to go fishing seem to be just a memory.
You almost have to be a chief to catch cod these days.
