Congratulations to last week’s winners

Find Pinny - Gaynor Gibson

Loony Lotto - Laslo Rochas

Mini Golf - Bailey B and Cassie Gray

Argonuts: Owen Murray

Call into the OCLife o ce to collect your prize

Volunteer of the Month

We have a $100 gift voucher to give away each month from Ashcroft’s Supa IGA and their charity Let’s Make Better.

To enter, simply nominate a person you deem worthy of the award, along with details of their good deed, and they will be in the running to be rewarded with a $100 gift voucher from IGA. Send their contact details to the address below, or email us on reception@oclife.com.au

“subject line - Volunteer of the Month”.

Find Pinny

We have a voucher for Orange Tenpin Bowl valued at $60 to give away each week, so the family can go bowling!

Each week we’ll hide a small version of “Pinny” (pictured) somewhere in OCLife. It could be anywhere. To enter, simply find him, write your name and phone number on the back of an envelope, along with the page number you found him on, and send in...

Looney Lotto

Win a voucher to the value of $20, to use at Coco’s Cafe or Paul’s @ Coco’s

TO WIN: If you have a personal or business phone number with these 4 numbers appearing in any order within it, put in an entry and we’ll draw a winner from among all correct entries each week.

“Many a mickle makes a muckle”, “a penny saved is a penny earned”, “take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves” and “a stitch in time saves nine.”

These sayings were often used in our household as I was growing up in the 30s. This Scottish frugality meant never being short of a quid. Of course, on the other hand, there was McTavish who dropped a 50-pence coin and it hit him on the back of his head. I had always known of my Scottish and Irish ancestry, but recently it was confirmed with a DNA profile: Scottish and Irish with a touch of German way back.

These thousands of years of Scottish and Irish culture gives me carte blanche to tell Irish and Scottish stories without fear or favour. It also makes me proud of our wonderful wordsmiths past and present. It allows me to tell you of Murphy who was so strong he could hold himself out at arm’s length. Or of the young Irish girl who confided in her Grandmother, “Grandma, I think I’m pregnant.” To which Grandma replied, “I wouldn’t worry too much my darlin’, it may not be yours.” And Padric O’Shaunessy, in gaol for supplying guns to the IRA, who wrote to his wife, “Whatever you do Maeve, don’t go near the back paddock.” On her next visit she told him, “Paddy the Police came with bulldozers and dug up the whole back paddock. What shall I do?” To which Padrich replied, “Plants potatoes.”

I have always had a liking for witty one-liners. Like the lady politician who was given a hard time by a member of the opposition and she told him, “I would love to engage in a battle of wits with you but I see you are unarmed.” Or the American classic, “Candy’s dandy but Liquor’s quicker.” Recently a bombastic fellow was telling a group of ladies that “God created Adam first because he did not wish to be told how to do it.” To which one lovely, quiet old lady replied, “That’s incorrect, when God created Adam first she was only practising.”

Of course, we all know the German sense of humour is no laughing matter and Wagner’s music is better than it sounds. There is nothing more enjoyable than a good German Oktoberfest, qua ng beer and singing ‘In München steht ein Ho räuhaus’at the top of one’s voice to a good Bavarian band!

I doubt I shall ever see that green and pleasant land of my forebears but maybe, just maybe, I’ll come back as a leprechaun and wander hills, dales and byways and make a little mischief.