MY Facebook feed lit up last week with speculation that Buck’s Bakery at Landsborough was selling to CJ’s. The idea that the owners would want to retire after 26 years seemed to take a few people by surprise. Of course the question is, what would CJ’s want with Buck’s when it has its own store just up the road. I know what I’d do if I was running CJ’s.
Surely the big winner out of the sale is the owner of the next door French patisserie, which could now have half as much competition as it did when it opened up a few weeks ago.
GOLF IS FUN
THOUGHT it would be a great idea for a friend and I to take our teenage sons for a round of golf during the school holidays. What could go wrong? A lot. Firstly, you can’t share your golfing demons with others, so that was a pile-on even before unleashing two loose and lippy teenagers into the mix.
From my first tee off out of bounds to copping a direct hit from a stray ball despite standing 20 metres away at right angles to the direction the kid was aiming, it was hard to find a highlight.
Trying to explain the long-accepted use of the word ‘fore’ was met with blank looks. My personal low was barking to ‘stop asking stupid questions’ when my teen asked what he was doing wrong with the putter.
He mentioned later on the round didn’t seem a very healthy outing for any of us. Golf is fun!
COURT RULES
HOW many millions of dollars has been spent on the Higgins/Lehrmann saga. It’s been a train wreck for so long here’s hoping that everyone just moves on. As Justice Michael Lee handed down his decision on the Lehrmann v Channel Ten defamation case he used my new favourite word to describe that insanity of the case: It’s an “omnishambles”. A highlight among many lowlights.