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Advice from the late Elizabeth the Queen Mother

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Why can't Australia produce its own garlic?

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How to outlive a stainless steel saucepan

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Red Carpet Day - Column 8 winners announced

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Drugs debate ahead of Column 8 awards on Monday

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Theories on the whereabouts of the ducks of Victoria Park, Broadway, continue.

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C8's newly generated schools-who-produce-two-or-more-Olympic-gold-medal-winner rivalry has prompted Elisabeth✓ Hawkins to recall "two 17 year old girls from Hornsby Girls' High...".

Rest stops named after Victoria Cross recipients on the Hume can invite a bit of poetry. Richard Stewart of Pearl Beach remembers "on our way to Mittagong to visit family a text message 'where are you' was replied with 'having a pee at Partridge VC'. "

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The recent death of the Duke of Westminster has reminded Newcastle's Roland Millbank that the man reputed to be one of the City of London's biggest landholders (with substantial Australian holdings too) was guest of honour at a recent local Reserve Forces Day March.

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Norfolk Island will perplex no longer.

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There seems to have been an outbreak of alchemy at the games of the XXXI Olympiad with competitors happy to bite gold medals for the cameras. Balmain's Ogden Browne thinks the Rio de Janeiro competitors might be assaying their gold medals to see if they really are more than all that glitters. If so, he has some rather sad news for them: "Can someone inform them that they are 92.5 per cent silver and all this medal-munching is therefore pointless?"