The Dragons are coming

JUST the announcement of the Titans v Dragons match in Toowoomba next March has put the Garden City on the map.

Facebook has since been aflutter with Sydney-based Dragons fans posting questions on how to make the trek here.

One Wollongong-based Dragons fan “Dave” posted he’d never been to Toowoomba but would like to make the trip and so sought travel advice.

“I have never been there and that’s my biggest problem at the moment but still got time to make plans for it,” Dave wrote.

Going by the responses, not many of Dave’s mates have been to Toowoomba either.

However, here’s a Whispers tip for you Dave, don’t listen to your Facebook friend “Robert” who advised “Fly to Brisbane and get train (to Toowoomba)”.

With advice like that, Dave would probably get as far as Ipswich.

No Dave, now that we have Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport, you can simply drive or bus it into Sydney Airport and jump on a return flight directly to Toowoomba.

50-something

SOME things you can’t plan — even though that’s your profession.

Toowoomba planner who is turning 50 shortly is trying desperately to hide the fact.

Says he doesn’t want to “plan” anything for the big day.

But the secret is out. Close (and some might say unkind) friends say it may be the only half century the sports-mad bloke ever gets.

Slings and arrows

RECENTLY retired public servant was seen walking about Toowoomba with his right arm in a sling this week.

Naturally, he blamed his wife for his predicament.

The couple’s toilet had been leaking and so he had been sent forth to fix the problem.

A former front-rower of some size, he was bending over the toilet and leaned on his elbow when he felt pain and something go in his arm.

In agony, he mentioned to his wife that he might have to go to the hospital but, having known him for 30-plus years, simply told him to stop “sooking it” and get back to the job at hand.

He eventually drove himself to the Accident and Emergency where x-rays confirmed he had torn muscle from the bone.

Well, that’s how he explains it anyway.

Mums the word

AFTER three days off work with a stomach bug, Toowoomba woman returned to the office momentarily accompanied by her mother.

Standing at the front counter before staff and customers, the lass motioned to her mother that they were about to leave, prompting mum to inquire aloud: “Okay, do you need a gastro stop?”