Tag: Double Take
Double Take: Bikes, heads, grffll nr ppe wbrf …
SHADES of the 2010 UCI world titles angst over a Geelong race marketed as a Melbourne event emerged this week as wheels were being...
Double Take: Namatjira, keep on trucking, wet sail …
“AS SLOW as a wet week” took on added meaning with the region copping a bucketing with an average of 42.5 mm of rain.
The...
Double Take: Rooftop caravan, feet up, secret boozers ….
THE CARAVAN influx to Geelong and the Surf Coast each summer usually terminates at a beachside resort - not on top of a pub.
For...
Double Take: Cats, heads, Yuletide …
THE Cats appear to have borrowed a play from the black art of politics to announce their $250,000-plus loss.
They revealed the figure by emailed...
Double Take: Desperate times, Christmas critics …
DESPERATE times call for desperate measures, the saying goes, and a looming state election must qualify.
At least, it does when you're lagging in the...
Double Take
DESPITE a looming state election, random outbreaks of violence and other outrageous local misfortunes, the big talking point in Geelong over the past week...
Double take: Re-headed, elephants, solidarity
A GEELONG visitor to the Hills district in western Sydney must be wishing he stopped at a caravan park instead after a recent close...
Double Take
One of the region's oldest footy clubs is battling with, of all things, the prosperity of its home town.
Lorne Football Club, established in 1896,...
Double Take: Nannas, online war, poor kids …
FRESH from battles elsewhere, a band of environmental superheroes descended on the Surf Coast last weekend for their latest challenge.
Who was this force to...
Double Take: Show fines, Gizzard, pier, frack foil
ANYONE wth outstanding fines might like to stay clear of Royal Geelong Show this weekend.
As of 3pm on day one, sheriff's officers had identified...
Double Take: U2, Chappie, number-crunching, deep space
LOCAL lass recently holidayed in old Erin, soaking up the delights of the Emerald Isle and its welcoming pubs and constituents.
In one pub she...
Double Take: Politics, graffiti, Mustangs, Port storm …
LIBS candidate for Geelong Paula Kontelj is out of sorts over a political graffiti artist’s assault on her election billboards.
The board, on the fence...
Helping hand for Cottage
Darren Allbutt’s Sea & Wood exhibition at Cottage by the Sea late last year was so well received that the fifth-generation Queenscliff resident is...
