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- Written by May Green
I am a prolific reader - my life is surrounded by books. I am the custodian of a Little Street Library, and a member of two Book Clubs. I also help run a Book Swap table, and have recently written my first book.
Interestingly, I have never owned many books and since downsizing at retirement, the book shelves hold more wine glasses than literary standards!
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- Written by Bruno Lord
She wants the house. She wants the lawn mower. And she’s taking the dog’s Microchip out too!!
I should’ve known something was wrong when the vacuum cleaner started avoiding me.
Then the fridge stopped recommending my favourite snacks.
But the real giveaway? - She changed the Wi-Fi password!!
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- Written by Bruno Lord
Welcome to the future!
She cooks, cleans, does the dishes, mows the lawn and even fixes the car. She’s cute, sexy and looks after me.
She doesn’t argue, doesn’t forget birthdays, and doesn’t mind watching Top Gear re-runs for the fifth time. Meet my AI housewife — the ultimate blend of domestic goddess and advanced neural net. You could say she’s the dream partner… if you can afford the charging bill…!
In a world where AI runs stock markets, writes novels, and teaches your kids better than you ever could, it was only a matter of time before she arrived.
No nagging. No complaints. Just perfectly sautéed mushrooms and a sparkling clean floor.
But let’s break it down, what does she actually do?...
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- Written by May Green
The Spring Racing Carnival has received much media attention of late, probably more for its fashions on the field than its horse flesh. All the colour and frivolity to me signifies the beginning of our "party season" and although I no longer participate as I once did, it is still a busy time of the year.
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- Written by Brian Lee
This old world of ours goes cheerfully on its way doesn’t it, changing very little about itself, apart from a few unimportant issues imposed by a race of beings who think themselves very clever, but really have very little to offer these days in the way of dynamic progress!
Which is what made me think a bit, when I was lying in bed at two o’clock this morning, trying to get off to sleep.
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- Written by May Green
I'm a huge supporter of Seniors Month, an annual Queensland wide celebration held in October that aims to promote social connections for the more mature members within the community. Throughout the month of October community groups and organisations are hosting inclusive events and activities throughout the state. Many of these events are either no or low cost. Who wouldn't be up for that?
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- Written by Brian Lee
Had a BIT of a scare about a month ago, when I, (or rather my body), decided it would be fun to have a heart-attack quite a serious one too, by all accounts.
I was rushed two hundred kilometres to a specialist hospital, known imaginatively as The Victorian Heart Hospital; only been open for about a year, has 206 beds and numerous operating theatres all specifically for matters of the heart, near Melbourne. I was taken, on my stretcher, up and straight into, one of their operating theatres, where the most wonderful thing happened!
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- Written by May Green
I am a self funded retiree and recently celebrated my 65th birthday (with a fall on the wet tiles in the hallway.)
Oddly, I'de been hanging out for this birthday on the basis that I was fed up paying the full fare into the city by train and return which was costing me $19.20 for the round trip. But the joke was on me. Two weeks after my birthday the Government announced a plan to encourage more users to take advantage of public transport with rail travel reduced to 50 cents each trip as from August.
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- Written by Brian Pickering
It’s a fact that we all look in the mirror at least once a day, right?
So what do YOU see? Some say “wrinkles’ – “ugly chin” – “crappy hair” … of course all those things tend to make those people feel uncertain or unhappy with themselves which can and often does lead into depression even if only mildly so or for a short period of time just not being happy with themselves.
But just looking at our faces is not really a ‘true reflection’ of who we are.
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- Written by Brian Pickering
But is there a way to deal with those emotions? Sadly, some people end up depending on drugs or alcohol to deal with the stresses of life. Others have a different approach like joining a gym to keep up the socialising or the reverse, hit the road travelling, often solo – a sort of grown up version of ‘running away!’
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- Written by Brian Pickering
I recently saw a Facebook comment that literally said, “we are all just here for a holiday… enjoy each day and stop worrying about stuff”.
Sounds about right to me!... And while it’s easy to say that, I know there are many MANY people in this world that have ‘problems’ … whether domestic violence related, work or lack of housing, general health, mental or other issues, treating our life ‘as a holiday’ might just be a way to deal with some of the problems we can often have!
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