WATERFRONT visitors could have been forgiven for cautiously looking skyward last weekend as a growling rumble echoed through the streets.
But rather than toned-down jet fighters, the sound signalled the start of local bikies’ annual toy run.
The event attracted more hogs than a hillbilly picnic, with 2300 bikes joining the fundraising ride for children’s services at Cottage by the Sea, Bethany and Geelong hospital.
Geelong Harley Davidson’s David O’Brien said the run from Geelong to Queenscliff was still growing in popularity after 22 years.
Ride on, bikers.
DIDN’T take long for the punters of Geelong to decorate the statuesque sconce of central Geelong’s restored Edward VII statue.
We’d been expecting beer cans or worse but it seems the defacers are a little more classically-minded, crowning Ed with a garland of leaves, as pictured.
It certainly gave him a distinctly Roman visage – not unlike some of the robes he wears.
SMART phones can still do some dumb things.
Lock screens aren’t always locked, it seems, with recent interview subjects leaving unintended messages on the Indy’s voicemail.
In recent weeks it has recorded background conversations, the sound of footsteps on gravel and a windblown stroll as the phone owner inadvertently called back at all hours.
Not that The Indy would ever use information so gleaned, of course!
Then again…
ROMANCE ain’t dead people, says Test Pilot Molly singer Matt Baird.
Last weekend he played for a bloke who booked him to crash a picnic with his girlfriend and play their two favourite songs.
What happened next?
“He got on one knee and popped the question,” Matt says.
“There were tears, lots of tears. It was pretty bloody great.”
Must have made an encore redundant.
And finally, the Indy wishes all its readers and advertisers a very merry Christmas.
We’d put something under the tree for you all but unfortunately it’s floating on the bay and we don’t want to get our notepads wet.
Ho, ho, ho!
