System change can be costly
Lass switches numbers for Powerball
‘‘ NOT MANY LITTLE BOYS REALISE THEIR DREAM OF BECOMING FIREFIGHTERS BUT THAT HAS PROBABLY BEEN A HIGHLIGHT ....
QUEENSLAND FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICE’S LONGEST SERVING FIREFIGHTER ROD SILVER.
WHEN I PICK PEOPLE UP, ESPECIALLY MY ENDEAVOUR PASSENGERS AND SOME OF THE CHILDREN, I COULD HEAR THEM SAYING ‘IS THAT SANTA?’ I JUST LOVE IT.
TOOWOOMBA CAB DRIVER KEVIN EDEN GETS INTO THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS.
lass took a punt and entered the Lotto this week, picking up a quick pick in the Thursday night draw.
Having previously laboured over choosing numbers - generally resorting to family birthdays and milestone dates - she this week decided to let the computer think for her.
Imagine her, shall we say, “annoyance”, when the Powerball numbers matched all but one of her “lucky” numbers.
BYO CHEESECAKE
LOOKS like one of Toowoomba’s firefighters will be buying the cheesecake for his own retirement party after coverage in a certain city newspaper.
The unwritten rule with fi- refighters, paramedics and police is generally a cheesecake is owed in the crib room if they appear on the front page.
And with a story as great, and a career as long, as that which appeared on page one of yesterday’s Chronicle, Whispers hopes this particular legend doesn’t owe a cake for each decade of service.
Happy retirement, Rod!
WINDY WORRIES
THIS week’s windy blasts affected an inner city resident who had just installed a new water tank.
On checking his gutters he discovered the wind had virtually stripped a nearby neighbour’s tree of leaves and depos- ited about 100 million of them in his gutters, clogging them and preventing any rain from reaching his new tank.
He was last spotted up a shaky ladder with a vacuum cleaner trying to clear the leaves.
His wife said she was surprised he knew how to turn on the vacuum cleaner.
LIGHTS OUT
A POWER outage is every person’s worst nightmare, well, at least for those addicted to devices like a pair of rag-tag Toowoomba housemates.
One of them, who works for a Toowoomba media organisation, was well aware of this week’s power cuts having been present in the city’s best newsroom when winds caused havoc on Alderley St power lines.
On arriving home at 5pm, his housemate informed him the power had been out all day and had been switched off from the mains.
At that point the poor fellow had been reading a book for four hours when he suggested to said reporter the purchase of supplies was in order.
The $40 of torches and candles had gone to waste as the minute they stepped back in the door a neighbour informed them the power never went out in their street.