I have recently researched the best food for brain fog and memory. Avocado, eggs and nuts come up as helpful in nearly every search.
Right now, I am wondering whether a headguard should be on that list as well, after the week I recently had.
I am the patron of Family of League on the Sunshine Coast (FOL). It is part of a broad-reaching charity helping rugby league players, families and volunteers who may need assistance with health problems or other issues.
From time to time, I will MC events for them and also the Moreton Bay FOL, based at Redcliffe.
A month or so ago, I took a call from the Moreton FOL president about MCing its State of Origin lunch and he gave me the date.
The next day, I had a call from our local FOL, which invited me as a guest at its Origin lunch at Maroochy RSL. I said yes to both.
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I put them in my calendar and never gave it another thought until the week of the local one.
Now, I don’t usually drink at these things, but I decided to get a bus to ‘the rissole’ and have a few beers.
The day before the event, I received a message from the Moreton president, asking me for some vouchers for the raffle and I told him I would mail them to him.
He replied to just “bring them on Friday”. My first thought was that it was nice he was supporting other FOL functions. But I rang him to check.
“No, you dickhead. Our function is this Friday,” he said. I argued that I had it in my calendar for two weeks later and started wondering how many head knocks he’d taken playing the greatest game of all.
So, I rang the local boss to say I wouldn’t make his function, only for him to tell me it wasn’t this week, either: it was also in two weeks. Suddenly, everything made sense.
I pictured myself turning up at the RSL with no one there, while Redcliffe Leagues Club had no MC! Thankfully, it all went well.
But there is more. That same Thursday, when it all unfolded, I was on Sea FM talking footy and went through the local games.
I said I was heading up to watch Coolum vs Nambour on the Sunday afternoon. Turns out it was the bye weekend and the games I was talking about were the following week.
If you see a bloke leaving BFresh with cartons of eggs, a bag of avocados and a sack of nuts with a headguard on, that will be me.
Ashley Robinson is Mets Caloundra CEO, chairman of Thunder Netball and a lifetime Sunshine Coast resident.
