Give me dry-armpitted Bendigo any day

By Wayne Gregson
February 16 2018 - 9:00am
Give me dry-pitted Benders any old day
Give me dry-pitted Benders any old day

Oh, how quickly we forget. On Wednesday morning, it took more than half an hour to get from the Tom Flood Centre to Mitchell Street, usually a matter for three or four minutes. I fumed. I smacked the steering wheel. I gave surly looks to about 500 blokes wearing eye-watering orange vests. I muttered obscenities at their STOP lollipop signs. I wanted someone to blow up the pointless lane closures in Barnard Street. Why shut down lanes on the very road you’re trying to use as a detour? Who thinks this stuff up?

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