“My name appeared in the recent King’s Birthday 2025 Honours List, but it was not me,” says David Pigott of North Parramatta. “However, I received a letter from my local club congratulating me on being awarded an OAM. I intend to frame the letter. Fellow C8-ers, mum’s the word.” Brian Byrne of Flinders can get a little hung up on redundant terminology at times: “The Bride and I had a chuckle when I opined that, in this weather, roofers’ phones would be ‘ringing off the hook’. We had to agree that the only valid word in this statement was ‘the’.” Doing Tuesday’s Superquiz, I learned that death cap mushrooms (very topical) were introduced to Australia,” notes Joe Barry of Lalor Park. “The question is why?” Ian Costley of Belrose gets across the animal pedestrian (C8) discussion: “Some years ago, visiting Tokyo, I noticed a group of police waiting patiently on the side of a six-lane freeway opposite the Imperial Palace with barricades, ready to close the road. My driver explained that it is an annual event when a mother duck and her ducklings decide to cross to the Imperial gardens. Lucky duck.” “Cars and tool sheds are but two of many cane toad (C8) mitigation strategies,” reckons Tim Ingall of Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. “Young lads working in the cane fields were known to play ‘cane toad golf’ at night with a 9-iron after a can or three of XXXX.”