Shepparton has hosted two new installations over the past few weeks as flood waters recede, Oddie has noticed.
The first was a large galah out the front of the Shepparton Art Museum, designed by Shepparton’s answer to Banksy in Tank.
Aside from the label on the trailer, there was no hint of where the galah was going or what was planned for it.
Oddie, running around after floods, didn’t have too much time to stop and admire it, but he decided he’s a fan, and everyone else should be too.
However, the other Oddie noticed in the past week might annoy a few people.
A piece of election advertising for Nationals candidate for the seat of Shepparton Kim O’Keeffe along the side of Lutfiyes Shish Kebab was obscured by a strategically-placed scissor lift.
The lift, complete with a blackboard covering the face of Ms O’Keeffe and Lutfiyes owner Azem Elmaz, was sitting on the site of a former hotel.
A piece of cardboard sat atop it with a phone number, but when Oddie gave it a call it rang out.
Intriguing.
Alert gone wrong
Last week, Oddie received an alert on his phone saying the Bunbartha sewerage plant had failed, which he then saw later in The News.
However, there was one issue: there is no sewerage plant in Bunbartha.
The alert was quickly rectified, but not before plenty of confused punters were worried about the Shepparton plant — which does exist — had failed instead.
Thankfully, Goulburn Valley Water confirmed the Shepparton plant was still operational, and the Vic Emergency app was updated to say some septic tanks had overflowed.