MIDDLE Ridge man was directed by lady of the house to clip the hedges around the home.

This is a regular chore for our man but the weather being as warm as it has been of late he decided to hire the services of a good mate who has a gardening business.

However, he was quick to advise his mate that he had to trim the hedges on the man of the home's day off so the lady of the house would assume he had done the job.

To date the good lady is none the wiser that man of the house had the job done at "mates rates" by gardener friend and hadn't done it himself.

He has form

IT'S NOT the first time our man has pulled a swifty on his house mate.

On a day off not long ago he was instructed to mow the lawn while good lady was at work.

Having made other plans for his day off, he got the garden hose and put some water into the backyard rain gauge and later told the good lady that Middle Ridge had copped an unexpected shower that afternoon and the grass had been too wet to mow.

Skippy in town?

IT APPEARS the scenic views and relaxed life on Picnic Point was just not enough for a kangaroo seen closer to Toowoomba's CBD (central bounding district?) this week.

Whispers operative said she was relaxing in her front garden just off Hume St in South Toowoomba when she looked up to see a 'roo (or maybe wallaby) bounding down South St heading toward Ruthven St.

"Maybe Picnic Point has become too boring and he was 'living on the edge'," our operative told Whispers.

With CBD traffic as heavy as ever it's just hoped that the furry friend doesn't "roo" the day he ventured down-town and came into contact with a vehicle.

Court out

MOBILE phone rings going off in Toowoomba's courts always receive the judicial frown and often offending phones are confiscated with the owner unable to retrieve the device until late in the afternoon.

However, visiting magistrate was left with a judicial red face when in the Magistrates Court a ring tone rang out across the courtroom.

"Whoever has that phone, turn it off or go outside," the magistrate warned.

However, the offending ring tone was not from a phone but from the T-shirt worn by a five-year-old boy sitting with his mother in the public gallery.

"Should his shirt be confiscated?" a cheeky solicitor put to the smiling magistrate.

Playing possum

WHO is the Toowoomba Regional Councillor who turns out to be a champion possum trapper.

The latest count is seven possums relocated from their yard, courtesy of a council possum trap.

Right neighbourly

FORMER Toowoomba man has found his move to Brisbane quite neighbourly.

His new home suburb of Kedron was subjected to a particularly heavy hail storm in recent times to the point residential roofs took a pounding.

He wandered outside recently to find his next door neighbour's roof under reconstruction by some roofers.

One of the roofers called to him, saying his roof looked like it needed repair as well.

Our man thought little more about it until he received a notice in the mail from an insurance company saying it had agreed to cover the repair of the roof of his home and adjacent entertainment area to the quoted price of $40,000.