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These simple and delicious biscuits are a nostalgic favourite and impossible to eat only one of. They are perfect for gifting and make a good rainy day project for kids of all ages.

Most of us have seen Magpie parents finally tiring of their whining offspring and driving them out of the family territory.

In the latest installment of Foster and District Historical Society’s column, we finish off the article published in the very first edition of The Foster and Toora Mirror about the Foster township, written by Mr Henry Barnes in March 1890, describing the township at that time.

The world is a beautiful and bizarrely complex place. We in Australia are fortunate in being a biodiversity hotspot for a large number of highly specialised creatures found nowhere else on the globe - including the ones that can sometimes give us bad dreams.

If you’ve ever travelled across India and had a taste of the wide variety of dishes to be found across the land, you’ll know what’s on offer to us further south is a pale imitation of the original.

Most people would be likely to accept that birds play, just for the fun of it. I suspect everyone has seen Galahs hanging upside down from branches and power lines, there are records of Galahs taking turns to walk over each other, and plenty of play fighting goes on.