70 Plus and Still Kicking

A peaceful space and supportive thoughts.  It's an entire year since the devastating bushfires in Victoria, Australia - when so many families lost their lives and hundreds watched as their p...

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From now on I’ll have piping hot showers courtesy of the bright Australian sunshine, and I’ll rarely need to pay a cent for it. There will always be enough for me and a herd of visitors, exce...

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What did the kookaburras think of this lot? While the world's leaders were ducking and weaving about climate change solutions in New York this week, Australia saw a real live demonstration of wha...

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The pelicans and seagulls think they sell just the best     fish n chips around, and so do I! This small boat harbour restaurant has tables set out on a wharf at Tweed Heads near my hom...

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Bloggy mates, I promise to post something bright and cheery soon - but this won't be it! However, I suggest that this will be an experience you won't forget.   Unless you, your family or you...

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It’s about time the media took seriously their responsibilities towards people with mental illness. A badly worded story can do far reaching damage to sufferers and their families, and yet some...

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Choices are a big deal in my life. Until one learns to recognise that we almost always do have them, choices can slip by unnoticed and are wasted. Once understood, I reckon they can introduce us ...

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I get cranky when I buy household appliances that have features built in to fail.It does seem that manufacturers do this so that we must replace items in the short term, thus adding to their prof...

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GINGER MEGGS, Jimmy Bancks’ brilliant Australian comic strip character, was my hero when I was a little girl.The more I think about it the more I’m convinced that my love of reading and writi...

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I'LL BE 73 NEXT MONTH AND I'M PROUD OF EVERY WRINKLE. There’s been a lot of energy expended getting me here, and a lot learned on the way.Those who visit 70 Plus regularly will have heard me sa...

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A RAGING STORM about health systems has burst on Living on the Other Side of the Hill a blog run by mate Judy in Kentucky, US of A.I'm sure that some of you have noticed that Americans are callin...

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So much is wondrous to little children ...This is my friend Pippi.What could she be looking at? Bubbles ...that's what!Pippi and her big brother Toby had great fun playing with hundreds of bubble...

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Sometimes a plant means more to us than simple beauty. This lovely zygo cactus has been with me for probably eighteen years now, since my son asked me to look after it while he was tripping overs...

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I wrote this story for my daughter and son-in-law who have a garden centre, feel passionately about the environment, and have a policy of encouraging clients to think wisely when planning their g...

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Just what ARE these men doing? It's obviously very serious business.Look closely and we discover that they are actually tending model yachts.These boys play with their toys each Monday afternoon ...

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MURWILLUMBAH is a smallish town in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, not far from where I live. Sugar cane, paddocks dotted with dairy and beef cattle, banana farms and orchards, occasional...

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May I announce the opening of the virtual 70 Plus Art Exhibition, featuring works inspired by friendship, fun, curiosity and the desire for new experiences!This all began with a little tinkering ...

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I would lay a small bet that a good half of my bloggy mates have never bothered to explore the simplest program in the Windows zoo - the little drawing programme called Paint. It can be great fun...

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I really really like the new bicycle I bought just before Christmas.I paid for it with part of the $A1,200 payment the Australian Government issued to pensioners as part of a package to stimulate...

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Dreamtime Beach Fingal todayWe've visited Fingal a lot on 70 Plus, and chatted about the flora of the place and admired the deep torquoise sea, the creamy beaches and the unusual rocks that dot t...

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Source: Mollie Gillen's The Founders of AustraliaThe white settlement of Australia began in the late 18th century because the English wanted to be rid of thousands of people clogging up their gao...

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We continue a look at nature's designs today, as promised before thoughts of the boat people got me onto another track.This time human beings are in the act alongside nature in some of the follow...

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Thirty-one boat people have been injured in an explosion on board a 20m wooden vessel detained off the Australian coast, the latest event in the continuing tragic story of refugees seeking asylum...

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We human beings think we're red hot when it comes to design, but nature will beat us to the post every time. I'm not even talking about the grand design that preoccupied Darwin, but aesthetic des...

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Surfing is such a huge culture among young people in Australia. It's a lifestyle, an economic phenomenon, and mostly good clean fun.This week my photography walk took in the points at Snapper Roc...

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