A day for a grumble

Rod Ham Nam (C8) made a pre-emptive strike on the matter of how long a business can advertise it is 'closing down'.

Geraldine O'Brien, Redfern, writes: "Flyers on smartpoles around Kent and Liverpool streets offering foreign students courses in hospitality and aged-care services from Gallops Eduservices add the reassuring promise that 'WE SPEAKS MANDARINE AND CENTONISE'."

Alligators on Florida golf courses — that's nothing

How to calculate if you are at risk of a snake attack

Now attack birds target golfers as well

Hillary is too 'generalistic'

Censored

How to get a drink before noon - the solution

Hands-free dining for motorists

They're all Kutchabumprovs.

Advice from the late Elizabeth the Queen Mother

Spam, Spam, Spam...

The remarkable retail sector

Why can't Australia produce its own garlic?

How to outlive a stainless steel saucepan

A can of worms

How old is a granny-aged shopper?

Anything else?

Fashion news

Red Carpet Day - Column 8 winners announced

Drugs debate ahead of Column 8 awards on Monday

Column 8 - bigger than Ben Hur

You are never too old for jury duty

Post early for Christmas

Column Eight-gate

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

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'. "  

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.