Has Geelong lost its international icon?
No, Double Take’s not alluding to the Cats, Corio Bay or even a mythical Guggenheim Museum.
This is an icon of fabulous hue and lustrous structure, noted globally for keeping companion with celebrity and haunting the corridors of power.
Yes, Darryn Lyons’s mohawk has disappeared. Worse, it’s been replaced with a tiny ponytail.
The mayor turned heads this week with his new-look noggin, absent the hair-do that became something of a trademark for not only himself but perhaps Geelong as well.
And he was strangely coy when Double Take inquired of his office whether the change was only temporary.
The mayor was “trying something different” came the short response.
A mohawk wasn’t “different”?
A road works speed-limit sign spotted on Western Beach Road this week cautioned motorists to slow down to 50km/h.
Guess what the normal speed limit in Western Beach Road is.
Yep, 50km/h.
Everyone’s having a sale in the silly season lead-up to Christmas. After all, it’s when retailers do their best business.
A menswear retailer in Westfield Geelong joined the trend on Tuesday with a generous 40 per cent off everything in the store sale, marked ‘Today only’.
But shoppers who missed it don’t have to worry.
The today-only sale was back on Wednesday.
And probably tomorrow as well…
Remember those great law firm names like divorce lawyers Ditcher, Quick and Hyde? Or Screwem, Goode and Hart. How about solicitors Bickers and Bickers?
A media release from Australian Security and Investments Commission (ASIC) has involuntarily added to the list.
The ASIC said it accepted voluntary undertakings from three registered liquidators after it discovered they failed to comply with some of their statutory obligations.
The firm they are all from? Bent and Cougle.
