If anyone said to me that winter in Mackay is a period in which to curl up into a ball and hibernate for a few months, well they’ve got it drastically wrong.
Things are just crazy flat out basically until Christmas time, and I love it.
Take this weekend for an example. I have to play hockey on Saturday night, then I have to get over to the basketball and jump on the mic for the Meteors game. Then I’m up early Sunday to walk up Mt Blackwood and then get some running in after catching the bug last weekend at the Marina Run.
Next thing I’ll know it’ll be Wednesday when we will be doing the 4MK breakfast show out the front of the Lifeblood Centre on Sydney St for our Bloody Oath Day.
It’s going to be World Donor Day and we decided to roll up our sleeves and support the cause by getting the word out there, to see how many people around Mackay would become regular blood and plasma donors. I reckon there will be heaps.
I can’t wait to do the show on Sydney St next week and get heaps of people starting to save lives in their own way.
Fast forward to next weekend and there’s even more action around Mackay. There’s more Meteors and Meteorettes games to be had on Friday, Saturday there will be more hockey and a great night at Moranbah where I’m volunteering on the mic with a Trail to Triumph trivia night with Mat Britton which will be amazing, and then on Sunday the show season starts, with the annual Pioneer Valley Show kicking off in Finch Hatton.
This is arguably Australia’s biggest one day country show and we love it. Sure it’s fresh when you’re heading up the Pioneer Valley at 6 in the morning, but once the sun is out, the horses are smiling and the jackets come off, it’s really the best day out.
Oh, and I’ll be the bloke on the microphone again too, so if you hear someone describing the horses, cattle, wood chopping or the great amount of entertainment, that’s me. Come and say hi too.
When you add it all up this is the best time of the year. The weather is perfect, the events are everywhere, just wait for our Festival of Arts, oh, and the people, well we know how good you are! Just exceptional.
You can join Rob Kidd from 5am weekday mornings on 4MK 1026 AM in Mackay and Proserpine, 91.5FM in Airlie Beach or just ask your smart speaker to play 4MK on iHeartRadio!
