After 10 days, the wait for a speeding ticket drags on

Small-scale farmer reckons it is time to go back to supplementary feeding

The poly tub with loose lick on the farm at Greymare. Picture: Gerard Walsh

DRY AS A BONE column in Bush Telegraph by Gerard Walsh - A lighter look at rural life

WE HAVE made a decision to put our cattle on a loose lick supplement.

I like the loose lick we use but there is a problem in that, once it gets wet, the product can be almost wrecked.

About three months ago I spent two hours trying to dry the lick and probably saved $40 of product at the most, so suppose that is $20 an hour.

At times, we use a wet lick, a molasses-based product. Sometimes we use both, just as well I have an off-farm job.

The solution to keeping the loose lick dry is a poly container with a roof but that is for next financial year's budget.

We will pay the rates, the vehicle rego, farm insurance, food and a few days for a family holiday before I buy a poly container with a roof.

There is some natural grass for the cattle on our property at Greymare but I don't need a PhD to tell me the protein level would be next to nothing after so much heat and two months without follow-up rain.

wait AND SEE

FRIDAY marked 10 days since I reckon I got booked speeding down Guy St, Warwick, a 50km/h zone.

The CEO always tells me when I think I might be over the limit that I have not been pinged since I have been under her management (from 2002).

The first person I asked how long a ticket takes to come in the mail said three weeks so I have a while more to wait and hope.

If I did get pinged, that means I had two photographs taken on the one day - one by the speed camera and an X-ray.

At least I passed the X-ray.

I also had about my fifth random breath test in the same spot along Albion St on the way to work on Sunday.

I'm hoping to win the prize for consistently being 0.00.

I don't want to write my own news story on a Sunday after the police tell me they nabbed a drink driver.

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TWO weekends ago, I went to the Southern Cross Bowls Club for the championships and two of the eight players in the competition spoke about this column.

I told them we would follow the rest of the singles championships each week and president Dave Scotney is my informer.

We are now back to a top four: Kev Mooney, Clark Davidson, Bill Lee and Val Gray.

Val is a mad Melbourne Demons supporter. Unfortunately his Melbourne side hasn't won a premiership since I was a student at Greymare State School, which closed in 1966.