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My wife Jacqui and I meet up with friends at our local pub most Friday evenings.
Not the most exciting or adventurous outing you might say, but all nine of us are either into, or close to being, in our eighties, so our idea of an exciting night of debauchery may differ somewhat from the way we might have felt forty years ago!
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Think about this for a moment... life in general has a fairytale gloss about it - for instance reality TV. Probably about as far from reality as we can go right?...
Or what about the beauty business? Not much there that is real either! What you see is not what the person started life with. Too often it cost a few thousand dollars or a trip to Thailand.
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The human body is undoubtedly the most wonderful piece of engineering, designed over billions of trial-and-error years by “Nature”, (I’m using this term, then no one can get offended because their favourite Deity has been left out!), to arrive at what we have today.
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I sat in our living room last night, enjoying the comfort of my automatic lifting chair, the warmth of the air conditioning and playing with my iPad, when it occurred to me what vast changes had taken place in my lifetime, possibly the most fantastic period of progress in the history of the human race!
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The world is full of new ideas these days; there’s something new to please and surprise us virtually every day.
Either it’s a new telephone that will double as a camera, computer, diary, notebook and games machine, or it’s a fridge that knows when you’re running out of something, (and it orders replacements from your local supermarket too!), or a car that is quite capable of parking itself, with little or no help from the owner!
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Australia is dotted with them. In any State in the country, where it is possible to live, where water is freely available, where the soil is fertile, where the climate is pleasant and the view pretty, you can bet someone will put down roots, build a homestead and throw seed onto the patch of earth which has been carefully prepared for the purpose.
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I’ve had a lucky life!
There have been ups and there have been downs of course, what life hasn’t gone through those periods, but generally everything turned out for the best, as far as I’m concerned.
Right from the moment of my birth I was lucky; I was born into a country that was civilised, rich and well governed, unlike many poor individuals who arrived where none of those advantages existed.
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I suppose the joy in having grandchildren can be many things.
At first there is the pure joy of seeing that first baby, the child that brings hope and will take your family into the future, the first cuddles; the wonder at seeing the way they develop.
It's sometimes a journey of pain as well as pleasure. For some there is the tyranny of distance.
Having a grandson or daughter way across the world and only being an occasional part of their lives, can cause immense hurt.
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The first time I gave up smoking, it lasted for about half an hour. I was sitting in a pub with a few mates and in a moment of bravado I said I thought it would be easy to give up.
All that was needed was will power.
Mine lasted the half hour mentioned above, and it also cost me a pint all round, so I decided then that if I ever did try it again, I would be more circumspect, and keep the idea to myself.
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I don’t know about you, but I like to remember life in the fifties sometimes, a time when everything moved at a slower pace and we didn’t rush around eating fast food all the time, as so many of us appear to do now, in fact true ‘fast food’ hadn’t been invented yet, apart from a couple of exceptions as you’ll see below!
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I was just browsing through my weekly TV magazine yesterday, checking on what was upcoming and interesting. We old-timers do this a lot. The magazine is often more interesting than the actual programs these days!!
Any way I digress, and I’ve hardly even got to the end of the first sentence yet!..
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