Good morning Bendigo - happy Tuesday!
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Tuesday is my least favourite day of the week and I think it has something to do with where the day is positioned.
You're not fresh from the weekend like on Monday and it does not mark the middle of the week like Wednesday.
I like Thursday, everyone likes Friday and for a large number of people they don't have to work on the weekend.
What is your least favourite day?
Email me on madeleine.wines@fairfaxmedia.com.au and I will post them in tomorrow's Good Morning Bendigo.
Rain and chance of a storm. Max 18.
The Bureau of Meteorology has also issued a severe weather warning for North Central and North East regions with a cold front expected to cross Victoria today. For details and to watch the live weather radar, click here.
TIP OF THE DAY: I recommend not leaving your washing on the line today.
For more detailed weather news click here.
THE Bureau of Meteorology has issued a severe weather warning for people in the North Central and North East regions.
Damaging winds around 60 km/h with peak gusts of 100 km/h are forecast for the North Central and North East regions.
Residents are advised:
- Move vehicles under cover or away from trees
- Secure or put away loose items around your house, yard and balcony
- Keep clear of fallen power lines
There looks to be no reported delays.
A PRANK call was the catalyst for a major police operation in North Bendigo Monday night.
A "VINDICTIVE" hoax call resulted in a major police operation that saw large sections of North Bendigo cordoned off last night.
THE Catholic Church in Bendigo has called for an apology after anti-Catholic booklets were placed on cars outside churches across the city as worshippers prayed inside.
If today is your big day, happy birthday!
You share a birthday with ...
1945 – Bruce Cockburn, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Esquires and The Flying Circus)
1946 – Lewis Collins, English actor
1946 – Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen, Danish bassist
1947 – Marty Kristian, German-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The New Seekers)
1947 – Branko Oblak, Slovenian footballer and coach
1965 - Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.
1967 - Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.
1967 - The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
1968 - The meeting of the Union Nationale des Étudiants de France (National Union of the Students of France) takes place. 30,000 to 50,000 people gather in the Stade Sebastien Charlety.
1968 - Major League Baseball's National League awards Montreal the first franchise in Canada and the first franchise outside the United States. (the Montreal Expos)
1971 - The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.
What do prisoners use to call each other?
ANSWER: Cell phones!
Got a better joke? Any tips on what we should be heading out to today?
Email madeleine.wines@fairfaxmedia.com.au