Devil Kay fixes trapeze part; sex if yak lived.

The pulling out of fingers, Torana v Tarana and responsible mushrooms

The mystery of Curly Dick Road.

It's raining in Column 8's heart.

My grandfather didn't pump water uphill for his hydro-electric power (as Malcolm has suggested). Grandpa had a dam up the hill, in Tasmania, and the turbine was in the shearing shed. Every evening he would turn an enormous wheel in the house slowly and on would come electric light. One night, it was clearly blocked. Next day, on opening up the pipeline, out slipped a conger eel, and all was well again. Patricia Spooner, North Turramurra.

Could I please add my two waratahs to the list of plants flowering out of season.

Stop Press: Bizarre botanic event caused by crazy weather.

Breaking news from Column 8

Ides and seek

Click go the cheers

A key driver in reducing pollution

“I so often hear the idiom walk the talk corrupted to talk the walk or walk the walk or some other horrid variation that even I am becoming confused as to the correct usage,” writes Steve of Killara.

De-menising the people of NSW

Who can make cents of this?

We expose the great jam jar rip off

Skeletons in the school cupboard

Appropriate TV for a rewarding dental 'experience'.

We, almost, all embrace a good survey

As autumn arrives enjoy the petrichor.

Happy birthday if you were born on February 29.

A promiscuous column today.

Romance is in the air, still.

Duck. Incoming drone.

What you didn't know about Baden-Powell

The catch the fly gesture so favoured by Trump, is a "fake fact" warning, suggests, David Atherfold.

How to get rid of plastic shopping bags.

Best dressed - Graham Creed or Donald Trump?

Penrith tree is proof of global warming

 Today it's (almost) the George Manojlovic column

Dogs really are taking over