ANOTHER SMILING LASS
Caitlin Smith is one of the friendly staff at a Kilmore pharmacy. She is pictured with her mum Christine who is a pharmacy manager.
Born in Newcastle, Caitlin attended school in Wallan. Part of a large family-she has six brothers and a step-sister-and overall, a happy family. Dad, Norm is a railways electrician and engineer. Caitlin loves any aspect of art and enjoys being creative. She also likes to spend time playing games on her PC and especially with her friends at weekends. Best friends are Michaela, Alinta and Sophie and when together they have really fun times. Caitlins favourite holiday destination is Newcastle where she has family members. She is a proud Novocastrian.
She enjoys her pharmacy work, her colleagues, and loves connecting with community folk. Like many young people in today’s Australia, she hopes the cost of living will come down and taxes don’t continue to be so harsh. An animal lover, Caitlin has two cats and a dog-respectively named Sage, Gunther and Jellybean.
It was good to interview Caitlin, a really nice young lady.
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MAGICAL LORDS
Lords cricket ground is a truly iconic sporting venue, steeped in history and tradition. Like our famous MCG it has hosted international games for just on a century and a half. On test match days when the hallowed field is sun drenched there is no better place for a cricket fan to be. Players from around the globe who have made centuries there, or have taken five or ten wickets, have their names on the honour boards in the majestic pavilion. Don Bradman’s 252 there in 1930 remains one of the greatest innings ever played at Lord’s. The legendary cricket and music writer for the UK Guardian described it; thus, “It was a throne room innings, rich in majesty and robed in purple”. The Saturday of a Lord’s test is the high point of the summer game in England and celebrities are present in force. In the recent England-India test watching from the stands were Mick Jagger, Stephen Fry, Lily Allen, Ed Sheeran and Hugh Grant, to list but a few.
The comparable test “special” days at other world venues are of course Boxing Day at the MCG with ninety thousand present-along with Newlands in Cape Town, and Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
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VARIA
Lilliana Omoroso, who graduated from ACK in 2023 is loving her nursing studies at Bendigo Uni. In her second year, she is currently on four weeks placement with Bendigo Health in the surgical ward. She combines her studies with work at the aged care unit of Heathcote Health. Lilliana also manages to continue dance teaching. A really busy young lady, she describes her life as “full on, but I love it”. From a fine family in Kilmore and Wandong, she is really embracing life, and her future looks bright.
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BRIEF TRIP WEST
A trip with a young relative last week to the western district was a nice interlude, which I’ll write more on later. At Camperdown newsagency I spoke with two fine locals Paul Hewitt, the business owner is a life member of the unique Pomborneit Cricket Club. The proud club fields no less than 14 teams, senior, junior, male and female. Its well appointed “home” is a beacon for cricketers. Pomborneit, on the Princess Highway between Colac and Camperdown, is barley even a village- just some scattered farmhouses. Paul has a long association with the club as player and in various roles. He has played nearly 300 games there.
Peter Grinter is part of a highly respected area family. He told me that my father shore sheep on the property for quite a few years and regaled the family with his legendary yarns of the bush.
