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MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACTLocal man, Simon Boyd (32), was brimming with nostalgia and anticipation as he eagerly rebooted his favorite childhood game, only to swiftly abandon his quest after realizing the daunting time commitments required to actually get to the fun part of the game. With fond memories of the vast lands of Tamriel, Simon dusted off his old gaming console and...

ALISON SCHENK | Entertainment | CONTACTA Flight Path District and child-free woman has been rocked to her fashion core today after bumping into an old high school friend and her toddler outside the local cafe ‘Espresso Yourself’. What started as a regular work-from-home Thursday of deciding if what she wore to bed was decent enough to wear on a coffee run before firing up...

ALISON SCHENK | Entertainment | CONTACTI SURVIVED: Local Admin Assistant turned ‘Small Business Owner’ (heavy on the ‘ ‘) turned Admin Assistant has been forced to look inward today after watching a cult documentary on Netflix and relating just a little bit too hard. A couple of years ago Betoota Heights woman Carly Woodall (34) was surprised to find a Facebook message in her...

MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACTLocal woman and new mother, Sarah Marley (32), was left devastated after discovering that she had been unfollowed on instagram by Petra Dvořák, the Czech girl she shared a fleeting moment of camaraderie with in a London hostel back in 2014. Sarah was taken aback when she stumbled upon Petra's Instagram profile, only to find that she had been...

ALISON SCHENK | Entertainment | CONTACTA Coastal Thursday morning coffee group was rocked today when one of its members arrived at their local Coffee Club meet-up in attire wildly different to the group's regular aesthetic.  The weekly morning catch-up has been a staple in the 8-12 women large group (attendance depending on various trips to Burleigh Heads and/or Mornington Peninsula) for almost 20 years...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactIn some sad news, a Betoota Ponds woman has finally come to accept that she’ll never be able to live out her Pinterest dreams, as long as she continues to live in a city within two hours of her family and friends. Brea Coppola, 31, admits she’d continued to hold out hope that she’d one day be able to...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactA local woman has decided she’s sick to death of her friends finding ‘the one’, after being invited to her seventh wedding this year. Having reached that pivotal age where her friends were either getting married, becoming partying alcoholics, or in the rare case, both, Billie Rhoades, 29, is starting to wish more of her mates were hopeless in...

CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACTA portly local man who gets his barber to trim his dense facial hair into a cropped beard has become the butt of many jokes this week. The fact that his mates are also tier-1 smart arses does not help things for 30-year-old Jacob Webcke, a Betoota-based office worker. As someone whose own razor sharp tongue has meant that he...

EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactA bloke who’s just made the switch to working in public relations has found himself quickly learning a lot about women, including their penchant for drinking out of stupidly sized water bottles, it’s reported. Having worked mostly with blokes over his five year strong marketing career, Graham Stuart was surprised to discover the PR agency he applied to was...

MONTY BENFICA | Amusements | CONTACTIn an act that could only be interpreted as an undercover flex to his povo mates that didn't get hooked up with a good job from a family friend, local high roller Matt Young (26) has flaunted his wealth by purchasing a bag of exorbitantly priced chips that could only sold at a bottle-o. The saga unfolded during a...