Talk about acatona hot tin roof

IT’S nice to know your pets miss you when you’re not around, but one Cabarlah kitty took things a little far this week.

The poor beleaguered kitty had been abandoned by her mum for the best part of two weeks, so was ecstatic upon her owner’s return.

So when it looked like her human was set for departure again, she did what any loving kitty would do: sat on the roof of the rather large four-wheel drive her human was getting into.

The neighbour was sitting outdoors at the time entertaining a visitor when he noticed this kitty’s owner heading out.

He did the double take and said to his guest, "Was that a cat on the roof of the car?" just as the vehicle dropped out of sight over the hill.

He quickly got on the phone to his neighbour and said, "Hi, there’s a cat on your roof."

She breezily replied that the cat was often on the roof and would get herself down. "Ah, no, on your car roof." The shocked owner pulled over about 2km down the New England Highway, a 100kmh zone, and sure enough, the poor cat was still clinging to the roof, luckily unharmed.

Tom does it again

FORMER Member for Groom (then Darling Downs) and baker extraordinaire Tom McVeigh has cleaned up again at the Ekka’s baking competition.

Tom scored a second in the boiled rich dark and plumb pudding classes, and, using his Aunt Nell’s recipe, won the home baked loaf white bread as well as the home baked grain bread and scored third in the white cob loaf.

His secret to success was the right choice of flour, he said.

“Over many years I’ve been guided by long time Defiance Flour employee Paul Hardwick who sources my flour,” Tom explained.

“Over the years I’ve always used Defiance Flour and Paul always sources top quality Darling Downs wheat flour.”

Curtain call

PHOTOGRAPHER with a certain Toowoomba newspaper has been the envy of many this week, in particular those of the female persuasion who hark back to the days of 1970s music.

Our man received a personal call from one of Australia’s all-time leading rock ’n roll performers who left a message on the photographer’s private mobile phone which included the legendary rocker’s mobile number.

It was a call many a teenage girl of the 1970s craved but, then again, there were no mobile phones back in those days so how could Daryl Braithwaite have called them?

One lady remembered seeing Mr Braithwaite and his band Sherbet at the Harristown High School Hall in the early 1970s, figuring his career had gone full circle with his performance in Toowoomba last Sunday.