I was at the Rattler Cafe Imbil last Monday in search of a take away carton of their incredible home made pumpkin soup, well it was raining of course and what else do you do on a rainy day but have a steaming bowl of pumpkin soup.

While I was standing at the counter an old man shuffled in, he was well dressed in slacks and a cotton shirt.

I noted that his hair was immaculately combed with what I thought was Bryll creme in it, I wasn’t even sure you could get that any more.

He would have been 75 if he was a day.

He had his money ready and as he approached, the shop assistant said “ice cream cone?” The elderly gentlemen was polite to the extreme – a mark of his era “Yes thank you very much” he replied.

Me being “Jamie Dunn” the friendliest man alive, engaged him in conversation. “Giving yourself a treat on this tropical day?”

I said flippantly. “Oh no, it’s not for me” was his reply, “it’s for my wife, she is in the car, she has Parkinsons and her mouth gets dry, so I get her the ice – cream”

On that note, he turned with his vanilla cone and shuffled back to the car. “Twice a week he comes in without fail and gets the same ice-cream each time” offered the guy behind the counter.

I couldn’t help but think what wonderful devotion this pure gentlemen had and here’s me on to my second marriage and not dealing with that too well either.

BAD LUCK
The other night at about midnight when everyone in the house was asleep, the four foot by three foot Mexican mirror “by Carlos” I bought at the Eumundi markets many years ago snapped it’s wire and fell to the floor with a noise that was akin to a twin engine Cessna landing in your lounge room.

Everyone in the house ran downstairs, everyone that is except for me, I needed to shower and change prior to facing my seven years of really bad luck.

TRUCK STOP TUCKER
If ever you should travel the road to Gympie be sure and turn in to the Gold Nugget Service Station for a feed.

All the truckies go there, which is probably why you need a four wheel drive just to navigate the severely pot holed drive way to get to the counter.

Once there, be sure you order the scram ‘n bits.

I know it’s a breakfast meal but it’s so good I eat it 24 / 7 and just to make sure you understand the power of their truckie attracting cooking, just let me read you the dessert specials straight from the chalk board.

You can have home made chocolate pudding, home made bread and butter pudding, home made sticky date pudding, home made butterscotch pudding or home made apple crumble all served with custard……..OH MY GOD!

KEV’S SORRY SPEECH
I must say that although Kevin Rudd looks to me very much like a character from South Park, his speech to the Nation apologising to the indigenous community was nothing short of brilliant.

It made me feel very proud.

He crafted a heart felt and emotion packed response that touched me to the core.

Brendan Fraser’s response however, made me cringe at times and although he has every right to deliver his opinion completely uninterrupted and heckle free, at the end of it I felt that I should apologise to him for actually voting Liberal a couple of times in my life.

GECKO LOVE
I don’t even think Steve Irwin experienced this.

The other night I turned on my bathroom light and found much to my surprise, and theirs, a pair of gecko’s making mad passionate love.

I know what your question is – do they do it like us?

The answer is a definite no!

He wraps himself around her like a barbers pole, she wraps herself around him like a passionfruit vine and they do it behind a fluorescent light.

The transparent tangle in front of me had two heads, four bulging eyes, which they occasionally licked, and eight feet with suckers on them and two tales that wriggled and twisted constantly.

To put it in technical terms from the medical journal….”eeeewwww!”.