BRADLEY of Boort has remembered ... to hop in the paddock and throw a boomerang. He says its his NAIDOC Week sign erected on the Treemendous Tree.
ONE should hope that Bradley has not been out practising at dawn these last few weeks. Frosts have whitened the Loddon landscape and if morning had been any colder, those lakes around Boort would have had the boomerang slip, sliding away.
SPARE  thought on these cold mornings for our local gardeners. Pam told us at the weekend that her winter vegie patch has been harshly treated by the frosts. She was lamenting to loss of broccoli. Broccoli plants can survive temperatures as low as minus five. The green thumbs would know that at this extreme, the leaves may suffer frost burn, but the flower head (the part we eat) can generally still be harvested. In good news, croccoli can be planted up to a month before the last appearance of Jack Frost of the season!
JACK Frost is a personification of frost, ice, snow, sleet, winter, and freezing cold. He is a variant of Old Man Winter who is held responsible for frosty weather, nipping the fingers and toes in such weather, coloring the foliage in autumn, and leaving fern-like patterns on cold windows in winter
DID you know? In Norse mythology, Jack Frost is a minor demi-god called Jokul Frosti meaning “icicle frost”.
WHAT other vegies can survive his chilling morning visits? They say garlic can beat the frost.