She is marrying Heath Wells, a former two-time softball world champion. The couple met through his sister Meredith when Boden was doing after-school care with her.

Boden, 25, said she found her dream dress, a classic, elegant Maggie Sottero design, the day she flew into Sydney from the London Olympics.

There were a few heart palpitations when she went back three weeks later and the dress was gone. The designer made her another though, so the day was saved.

The couple will marry at Old Parliament House in the House of Representatives Garden.

They will then enjoy a honeymoon on the South Coast. Boden will next be in action at the Queanbeyan Gift on the weekend of November 23-24 after reaching the semi-finals of the women’s 400m hurdles at the world championships in Moscow in August.

And just to prove how dedicated she is, Boden was on the track training on Friday, careful not to ruin the nails she’d just had done for the wedding.

Fancy a round of golf with retired Wallabies and Brumbies legend George Gregan, former All Blacks star Justin Marshall and Canberra golfer Brendan Jones?

The private round at Royal Canberra Golf Course – and lunch to boot – is being auctioned online until December 17.

The winning bidder and four friends will then take to the greens with the sporting legends on February 6.

The auction is in support of Canberra Grammar School’s Northside Early Childhood campus.

All five players get to play 18 holes and swap between playing with Gregan and Marshall in one group and Jones in the other.

And we couldn’t resist revisiting this pic of Gregan, then playing for the Brumbies, and Marshall, with the Canterbury Crusaders, appearing to have a little dance during the 2004 Super 12 grand final at Canberra Stadium. The Brumbies won that stoush, 47-38, to take their second title. Something to talk about on the fairways. Just don’t mention the 2000 or 2002 grand finals (they beat us).

The auction is now live at www.allbids.com.au

Geez, those judges can be tough.

After winning the Caufield Cup fashions on the field, Carwoola’s Viviana Parish entered the events at Derby Day, the Melbourne Cup and Oaks Day.

She told us she didn’t make it past the first round at Derby Day and Melbourne Cup and was short-listed on Oaks Day but didn’t get into the grand final. We still think she looks pretty swish in her Oaks outfit seen here.

Lifeline Canberra is promoting a campaign that suggests November 11 is not only a day of remembrance but one to “send some love to our troops”.

On Monday from 9am to 3pm, canvases will be placed around the country – including one in Canberra – for the public to write messages of support to Australian troops.

The Canberra canvas will be near The Terrace Cafe at the Australian War Memorial.

The campaign is to raise awareness of the “incredible humanitarian legacy of roads, schools and hospitals our troops are building around the world and the Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) experienced by many during and on their return from deployment due to the extreme conditions under which they work”.

Book it into your diary. Award-winning Australian author Thomas Keneally will talk about his new book, Shame and the Captives, at the Belconnen library on November 21.

He’ll be there from 1pm to 2.30pm.

The new season of the IMB Sunset Cinema starts on Friday in the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra.

It will continue through until December 21, screening four nights a week.

The program includes new flicks Gravity, About Time and Captain Phillips, old-school favourites Top Gun and Dirty Dancing and family films including The Smurfs 2, Planes and Turbo.

For the opening night on Friday, popular local band Julia and the Deep Blue Sirens will be performing and the film to be shown is Diana.

Gates open at 7pm and the films will screen around 8.30pm.

Tickets are on sale now at http://www.sunsetcinema.com.au/canberra

Entry to the cinema will be via the gardens’ main carpark on Clunies Ross Street, Acton.

Who would have thought Shane Rattenbury has a celebrity admirer in The Exorcist star Linda Blair? Yes, it’s enough to make your head spin!

Due in Canberra on November 23 for a 40th anniversary screening of the horror classic at Greater Union Manuka, Blair is an animal welfare campaigner these days, and runs a dog shelter outside of L.A.

Interviewed for Saturday’s Panorama magazine, she was thrilled to hear of the ACT Greens MLA’s recent animal welfare bill – an Australia-first ban on factory farming, such as battery hens and piggeries.

“I’m going to come there and give you guys so many kisses and love because by doing that you are making a stand,” Blair gushed. “Nobody here wanted to believe me when I would speak about veganism, the animals, the environment and the cause and effect of farming practices. With all my heart I applaud Canberra and all of those who have fought to make change because you will be a shining star to the rest of the world.” – James Joyce

Owen Campbell’s new album is appropriately called The Pilgrim. Makes sense for someone who has made his name as a kind of wandering minstrel, albeit of of the hard-guitar-playing, blues-loving variety.

The former Canberra College student is having a big farewell to Canberra, with a concert at The Street Theatre, on November 29 before he leaves for Los Angeles to further his music career.

He says his second album is “more rock and roll”, produced by the legendary Mark Opitz who also worked with bands such as AC/DC and Cold Chisel.

Bookings for the show are at www.thestreet.org.au or 6247 1223.

It’s a kind of guerrilla art movement that is all about spreading goodwill.

They’ve already given out free pillows embroidered with feelgood messages at the Civic bus interchange. Watch out on Saturday (4.30pm-6pm) when the pedestrian underpass under Commonwealth Avenue near Albert Hall becomes a fantasy land with installations and performers.

All down to Changing Places, an arts project of the Mental Health Foundation ACT, about “bringing art into public spaces, to explore the link between mental health and space”.