Is visitor Pete or Paul Murray?

Visiting rugby teams and social media woes

GOLDEN CHILD

ONE-YEAR-OLD Kearneys Spring resident has worked out a way to counter the heatwave conditions in Toowoomba of late.

He runs about the backyard of the family home stark naked, stopping at regular intervals to splash in water and take on some hydration.

His nudie runs have not gone unnoticed by the young girls, five and sixish, next door who are now referring to him as “Baby Jesus”.

PETE OR PAUL?

CHAP in Toowoomba was more than a little excited when invited to be in the audience when TV news guru Paul Murray visited the Garden City.

“I like that bloke’s music,” he thought, not realising that he hadn’t been invited to a private Pete Murray concert but a night with a television journalist whose Sky News show is screened nationally each week night.

He dialled up one of his clients and invited him along to join him in a night with “Pete Murray”.

It was only later when the pair arrived on set that they got to find out who Paul Murray actually was.

IMPROMPTU GATHERING

CITY tax accountant received a pleasant surprise when attending his local inn to enjoy a Saturday afternoon catch-up with mates over an ale when, one by one, his offspring dropped in to say hello.

Firstly, son number two arrived with his girlfriend, then a little later his daughter, her husband and their first-born and a little later, a nephew.

He wondered what was going on but they all admitted to having been driving past the James St inn when they spot- ted the chap’s car in the car park.

Apparently, his personalised number plates do stand out.

ALL HAPPY BAR ONE

VISITING rugby team from the Sunshine Coast stayed at an inner-city pub when playing trial matches against a Toowoomba club.

By all accounts the young rugby lads were a hit with the pub, not least two young lady bar attendants who volunteered to be their hosts.

Meanwhile, a 21st birthday in the lounge bar had about 30 people in attendance with the half-dozen males outnumbered by a large group of young lasses which soon had the two young barmen of the establishment volunteering to work that bar.

That left the 50-something (single) bar manager floating to serve behind the bar but, seeing as rugby boys drank far more than young ladies at a 21st, he was required in the bar with the noisy young footballers — which certainly wasn’t his bar of choice given the circumstances.

The next morning the rugby manager sent a message of thanks to the pub manager, thanking her for the hospitality and saying what a great night they had enjoyed.

“But does that old bloke behind the bar ever smile?” he wrote.

FORGOTTEN BIRTHDAY

FORMER Toowoomba lass wasn’t feeling the love early on her birthday which fell on the same day as the Great Facebook Outage of 2019.

As reports surfaced of people calling 000 due to the outage, our lass was sitting in Brisbane on Thursday feeling lonely without the little red flag popping up signalling birthday wishes.

But ever the “glass-half-full” kind of gal, she embraced the late flow of birthday blessings which trickled in throughout the day.

For what it’s worth, happy birthday Mini!

After all, it’s better late than never.