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N

ot long ago (well, it seems like weeks but it is probably months), I commented that it seems the older we get the faster the years fly by. I recently heard an explanation for this phenomenon and since it seems quite plausible and I haven’t any better ideas, I will share it.

Basically, it’s all about percentages.

In the first year of our life, one year is 100 per cent of our life experience. By our second year, we are already down to 50 per cent. At 15, it’s only 6.66 per cent of our life and after 30, each year is going to be less than 3 per cent.

By 60, one year represents just 1.6 per cent of our total life experience.

So, life is subject to inflation and,

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Contents like money, the more there is the less it’s worth. The more years we have, the less time each takes to pass. That would explain perfectly why a year now seems to pass as quickly as the Christmas holidays did in our teens.

And who would have thought that it is already a year since the first edition of Your Time magazine appeared? Yes, in April 2015, we began presenting news specifically for the 55+ demographic.

Thank you for your support during the past 12 months and thank you for supporting our advertisers who, at a time when digital media is threatening the printed product, have recognised that many readers aged 55+ still prefer to hold a quality magazine in their hands.

The team at Your Time looks forward to bringing you another year of good reads. If you have any suggestions, we would love to hear from you.

Dorothy Whittington, Editor

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Second-wind workers

Increasing the retirement age is firmly on the national agenda but as ANGELA BENSTED discovers, there are already workers who, after making a dramatic career change, choose to remain employed – some long after turning 65 – and are loving every minute of it.

Ian Morgan has relished the shift from classroom to workshop.

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he TV commercial shows a man and a woman driving in a red convertible, smiling and windswept, then zooms wide to reveal they’re behind glass as part of a museum exhibit.

A young boy looking on turns a puzzled face to his grandfather, who wears a crumpled suit and a hangdog look, seeking an explanation.

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“It’s called retirement son. They used to have it when I was a boy.”

The shape of Australia’s workforce is changing.

Once it was a pyramid, the base fat with younger workers contributing tax dollars to support their grandparents at the tip. Now we’re living longer and having fewer children and the pyramid is being squeezed.

There are more people at the top looking to wind down and fewer at the bottom to keep the economy’s fires burning.

These shifting sands are eroding traditional notions of retirement, blurring the once distinct line between working and not working.

But while some might lament these changes, for many people in their 60s and 70s, a job is not a burden. The chance to remain in the workforce is actually a godsend.

Just ask Tony Cox. Tony wasn’t too sure about retiring at 58 to swap his home in Taree, NSW, for the soft climate and gentle pace of Palmwoods.

He was a racing industry stalwart, a track manager with 35 years in the business who loved his job.

But for a man with no hobbies used to being with people all day, retirement came at a cost.

Volunteering at a Bli Bli nursing home with his wife Margaret was no substitute for work and he became “very bored and depressed”.

Everything changed when Tony answered an ad and landed the job of courtesy car driver with Sunshine Coast Mazda.

“Physically and mentally it has been really beneficial,” Tony says.

“It gives me a reason for getting up every morning.”

Now 71 years old, Tony drives an eight-seater van five days a week,

delivering dealership customers to their homes or workplace every morning and afternoon.

“I’m in contact with people every day,” he says. “I don’t feel 71 and I’m sure this job I’ve been doing for the last 11 years has been good for me.”

Ian Morgan’s late-life career change also started from low point.

He found himself in bed one morning, tears spilling down the lines on his face earned through a lifetime of teaching.

Ian had tasted success as a teacher, an education advisor and small business owner. But a divorce, with its financial and emotional aftermath, had taken its toll.

He had to sell his business and found himself drifting through life, moving between regional towns from one teaching job to the next, none of them the spark he needed to get him through the day.

His pilot light flickered.

A chance phone call from an old friend was a lifeline. Huddled over a coffee at McDonalds, the friend listened to Ian’s troubles and urged him to get some professional counselling.

It was just the “kick up the bum” he needed.

“Teaching was getting really difficult. I needed to do something but I couldn’t. I didn’t know where to go. I needed motivation,” Ian says.

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<from previous page him the head space and the confidence to think about how he could go about finding happiness again.

“She was really good. She said ‘What are you going to do, Ian?’ And that was the turning point leading to this little business,” Ian says, gesturing to his tinker’s workshop where tin and copper wares jostle for shelf space.

In between contract teaching jobs, Ian harnessed his creativity and business acumen to make tin buckets, jugs and vases, which he sold at weekend markets.

Since opening a shop front on busy South Pine Road in Alderley in 2014 he’s had constant traffic.

Now in his 60s, Ian doesn’t see himself ever retiring.

“I’d be bored,” he says. “I need this to keep me going. I love being an entrepreneur, seeing where it’s going. I love making new stuff that I’ve never made before.”

He’s expanded the business, offering evening classes in metal work. With students aged from 12 to 80, these classes are now his bread and butter.

He’s landed commissions for heritage buildings such as Newstead House.

Carpenters stop by and ask him to knock things up, looking for metal solutions that don’t require rivets.

Ian says he’s still broke. The difference is that now he doesn’t care.

“If I go bankrupt,” he says, “I’ll still do this.”

Dr Stephen Carbone, a policy research and evaluation leader with the mental health advocacy group

Beyond Blue, says research confirms that there is a link between employment and wellbeing.

“People who are in work tend to report lower levels of psychological distress than those who are unemployed but would like to work,” Dr Carbone says.

fish out of water”.

Just after midday on a Saturday afternoon at the Brookside post office in Brisbane’s northern suburbs, a group of women in their 60s give the counters a final tidy before turning off the lights and disappearing out the back to change.

that it’s time to take it easy.

These ladies like each other and enjoy the job too much to leave just yet.

“It’s like a second family,” says Glenda McLean, 62, who has worked for Australia Post since 1992.

Delayed superannuation saving and a marriage breakup mean she still relies

“A return to work, even just a few hours a week, has made the difficult adjustment to retirement a lot easier” Tony Cox loves being in the driver’s seat.

“Work provides a sense of identity, a sense of purpose, structure. It gives you an opportunity to socialise.”

He says people who have to leave work involuntarily, perhaps becoming unwell or needing to care for a family member, are more likely to experience psychological distress.

For some people their job is their identity Dr Carbone says. For these people, retirement can feel like “being a

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While Glenda loves her job, she could happily live without it, conceding if she won the lotto “I’d be out of here”.

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by her indecision. Now 72, Angie works Saturday mornings and relieves when the shop is short-staffed, usually one or two days a week.

The initial joy of retirement with its freedom from routine, lunchboxes and uniforms, soon wore off. She felt lost.

She found herself looking for excuses to go out “because I just couldn’t stand being at home.”

Angie says her husband is a lovely man but when he retired soon after her, “he nearly drove me crazy”.

“He had nothing to do and he was always at home. Whenever I wanted to go somewhere he would ask me ‘Why do you want to go there’?”

A return to work, even just a few hours a week, has made the difficult adjustment to retirement a lot easier.

“I think it keeps you healthy,” she says. Her colleague and friend Vivienne Read, 68, is considered a minor celebrity by her grandchildren.

Every time they visit her at Brookside they are struck by how many people know her.

“I sit here (BB’s café at Brookside) on my days off and people wave to me – ‘hello, hello, hello’,” she says.

After 30 years with Australia Post she has no plans to retire. She jobshares, week on, week off.

“In my week off my husband (72, retired) and I can do things we want to do with our family or community,” she says. Sometimes she thinks she should consider leaving work.

“But I enjoy the customers,” she says.

“I’m a people person and I love it.”

Australia’s pension age will rise from 65 to 67 by 2023, then to 70 by 2035. The shift starts in 2017, when it rises to 65.5 years.

Despite this, the number of older people in Australia’s workforce is considered low, with only one in three people aged over 55 in paid work.

Grey girlpower embodied in Glenda McLean, Angie Valks and Vivienne Read

For many people over 50, this is not for want of trying.

Following a spike in complaints about discrimination against older people, most relating to employment, in 2015 The Australian Human Rights Commission launched a national inquiry into barriers preventing older people and those with a disability from working.

The Commission will report its findings and recommendations to the Federal Government by July this year.

Some written submissions have been published online already and reveal a recruitment culture where bosses who hire staff such as Tony Cox are rare.

Simon Scanlan, then service manager at the dealership which hired Tony and now Elite Player Development Manager and Recruitment Officer with the Brisbane

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His age actually worked in his favour.

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“We wanted an older person with a bit more stability; someone who’d hang around; someone who could engage with the customers and make them feel comfortable about handing over the keys to their car,” he says.

“Tony was great at building relationships with the customers. He’d get them relaxed and comfortable and talking about the car.

“He’d actually come back (from driving them home) with more information about what was wrong with the car which was helpful to the service team,” Simon says.

Just as retirement is not an antiquated concept just yet, there are plenty of people in their 60s and 70s who are not ready to disappear from the employment landscape.

“We’re still healthy and energetic,” Vivienne says, downing the last of her cappuccino and giving a final wave to a passing customer.

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Barry proves a little Bull goes a long way A veteran of the Australian music industry, Barry Bull is now 73 but he’s still a long way from hanging up his Fender, as ANGELA BENSTED reports.

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arry Bull is still wet from his morning swim at Mooloolaba, buoyant after running into reporters from the Today show.

They chatted and he asked Richard Wilkins, who had interviewed Barry 10 years ago, if he remembered him.

“Of course I do,” the reporter replied, confirming the 73-year-old music industry veteran is not easily forgotten.

Among other achievements, Barry Bull is the name behind Toombul Music, which revolutionised music promotion in the 1980s and ’90s.

Barry was the first retailer in Australia to use shopping centre stage appearances, drawing on 12 years as national marketing director with CBS Records (Sony Music) to entice national and international stars including Neil Diamond, Billy Joel, Olivia NewtonJohn and Michael Crawford to meetand-greet sessions.

Each event inflated the shopping centre crowd by as many as 2000, with a corresponding explosion in music sales. Barry’s business flourished and industry awards followed.

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Retail success gave Barry a national profile and led to a parallel career as a motivational speaker and author.

But music has always been his real love. Like a lot of kids growing up in the ’50s and ’60s, Barry knocked around in a backyard band. He spent £250 importing a Fender guitar, an investment which “made an indelible impact” on his younger self and now plays a pivotal role in his retirement.

The Toombul Music fairytale ended when Barry sold the business in 2008.

“I didn’t see any future in music,” he says, but he hadn’t planned on retiring and “fell into a real hole”.

Salvation came from doing favours for friends. Barry often sourced obscure songs for special events and was struck by how many came in lacklustre compilation albums. He figured he could do better and started his own record label, Music for Cruizin’.

“I knew people of my generation would enjoy this. I knew the music that they like,” he says. “That was exciting. It was moving on from the hole that I fell into after closing my business.”

He moved to Mooloolaba 10 years ago, converting his longtime holiday pad to a permanent home. Two years ago, at the launch of his fourth book, the Fender reappeared. The seasoned promoter figured music would add spice to the launch, and he was right.

The positive crowd reaction led Barry to start playing again and he recently wrote a one-man show using music, video and his trademark yarn-spinning to tell his life story.

It includes surfing songs from the

’60s, James Bond themes and Neil Diamond and Willie Nelson songs.

Peter Rigby, who recently worked on the history of the Maroochydore Surf Club, says Barry was part of the club’s centenary program “to remind folk how we operated Christmas concerts in the late 1950s and ’60s as both entertainment and fundraisers.”

“I appreciate his zest for life and desire to inspire others to simply have a go,” he says.

Barry’s life has come full circle.

From the boy in the backyard band to a one-man memoir show, the promoter has morphed into a celebrity, signing copies of his own compilation CDs and motivational books for fans.

But he wants his show to be more, hoping it will inspire other people to find a passion in retirement, musing “as you get older there’s no reason there has to be a finishing line in your life”.

A little Bull Goes a Long Way is at Mooloolaba Surf Club, Sunday, May 15, 1.30pm for 2pm. Tickets $20 at barrybull.com or call 5477 7704.

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David Hamill – life after politics In 1989, he helped Wayne Goss usher in the first Labor government in 33 years and went on to oversee transport, education and the state treasury.

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avid Hamill has ditched his trademark moustache, picked up a doctorate and joined the Order of Australia. Your Time catches up with the former politician turned company director.

You were Queensland Parliament’s member for Ipswich for 18 years from ages 26 to 43, nine of those as a minister with the Goss and Beattie Labor Governments. Why did you retire? I always wanted to get out of Parliament while I was still young with time for another career. I’d seen some people stay there a very, very long time who came out bitter and twisted. I didn’t want that.

How did you adjust to life on the outside? For me, getting out was on my terms. It’s different when people get defeated in their seat. I didn’t have the grieving often associated with that. I did miss my staff though. There’s a camaraderie that comes from banding together to face the common foe.

Since leaving politics life does not appear to have slowed down. Your signature block is less a job title than a

rap sheet. How do all those roles translate into a weekly schedule? No week is quite like another. I’ve just concluded a nine-year term as Chairman of the Australian Red Cross Blood Service. I have a number of company commitments and I’ve just flown in from a meeting in New York. I also chair the board at Gladstone airport so head up there once a month.

Is it just about being busy? No, I quite enjoy it. I didn’t want to simply immerse myself in corporate life. I wanted to keep community and charitable activities going. I’ve done that through my work with the Red

Cross and a stint on the University of Queensland Senate. I also chaired the Queensland Museum board for a while.

Does that schedule leave time for any hobbies? One of my simple joys is my garden. I’m allowed to do certain menial tasks when it comes to the roses, shovelling the poo and so on.

And the hedging, the edging and the mowing are my domain. I’m also learning Spanish. My daughter-in-law is from Buenos Aires and I told her I hope my grandchildren will be bilingual, so I thought I should put my money where my mouth is.

You were pulled back into the limelight to manage flood relief for the Bligh Government in 2011. How did you find that? It was a challenging time. We never really knew how much money we had to distribute or how many people were affected. We were constantly redoing the maths. I think we achieved what we set out to do which was not sit on a pile of money.

We ended up distributing more than $280 million over nine months.

You left politics before social media

became a force. Do you think you might have saved some shoe leather if you’d been on Twitter in the 1980s?

Social media has some concerns for me.

There’s no filter on what goes up and all sorts of outrageous stuff swirls around. It’s also accelerated the news cycle and heightened people’s expectations.

I think for government it’s taking away some of the thinking time. The issues of today are complicated and they need to be thought through, not just get a seat-of-the-pants, immediate reaction.

You are a Rhodes Scholar and completed a PhD after politics. Is there anything you have difficulty learning? I’m having fun with my Spanish verbs – the irregular ones.

You still call Ipswich home. Why? My mum lives nearby. She’s in her late 80s. Also, I grew up and went to school here. My family’s been here for six generations so this is really home.

What’s your next big challenge?

Grandchildren. We’re at the beginning of a run and I’m looking forward to it.

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Recently, I helped Mrs Jones sell her family home and make the transition to retirement living.

I first met her when she was in her late 70s and we discussed downsizing options. It took more than a decade and a fall to finally convince her that it was time to take action.

By then, because of her age and health, her children had no choice but to take control and make all of her decisions for her – decisions such as where she would live, what belongings would be kept and what would be done with the remainder, the price of her home, who would sell her home and what would happen to her beloved pet.

Sadly, what happened to Mrs Jones is not uncommon but there are some things you can do now to take control, while you still have control: 1. Decide on where you want to go: Do you want to downsize or move into

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5. Interview real estate agents. Contact at least three local real estate agents and invite them to give you an appraisal and discuss the sale process of your current property.

As we move towards retirement age, we need to acknowledge that this is a new and exciting chapter in our lives.

We must continue to move forward and keep control.

Remember, memories will go with you no matter where you choose to live.

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Marketers sent 1.7 million letters to the deceased between October and December last year, causing heartache to families and also at a cost to the environment.

“On average, a deceased person receives 68 items of direct mail during the first year following their death,” TABR managing director Glenn Harrison said.

With more than 140,000 people dying in Australia each year, this amounts to 9.5 million pieces of unnecessary direct mail ending up in suburban bins.

TABR was founded in order to stop bereaved families being bombarded with unwanted mail.

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Businesses and charity organisations with high volume direct marketing are being encourages to get on board and reduce the waste.

Freya Paterson of Planet Ark said registering could help cut the waste of resources while easing the stress on grieving families.

“The bereavement register makes it much easier for marketers to avoid causing unnecessary pain for grieving families,” Mr Harrison said. “It will also help reduce waste of print and paper costs, and the huge amounts of money and energy used in postage.”

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ANZAC DAY

Anzac Day means all kinds of memories Many stories of bravery and adventure are told at Anzac Day but for ALAN LANDER it’s a very personal journey.

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s each Anzac Day approaches, my thoughts travel across the oceans to remember Richard and Margerita. Richard only once had the chance to step upon this wide, brown land, while “Rita” never had the opportunity to make it here at all.

Richard’s life was scarred from an early age, as his father lost his life to septicaemia, fighting with the 38th London Regiment during World War I, in March 1917. Richard was four.

An adventurous life was clearly in the blood, however, as he signed up to the Royal Navy at an early age, joined World War II and survived the Blitz while stationed in London.

By early 1942 he was based in the War Room at the Admiralty as a senior wireless officer, engulfed in the first unsuccessful attempt to sink the German battleship Tirpitz that skulked in a Norwegian fjord. Churchill himself frequently watched over the action. It was there that he met Rita, a WREN and fellow wireless operator.

Richard’s love for music but his

Rita and Richard

inability to play was seamlessly balanced by Rita’s in-depth knowledge of all music, her mother being a classical pianist and her father leader of Scotland’s Reid Orchestra.

They became inseparable, taking in the countless plays, shows and concerts that maintained London’s fragile morale, and danced at clubs like there was no tomorrow. They married in 1943, although after the war Rita returned to her native Edinburgh to stay with her parents.

Richard remained in various onshore and offshore naval roles, including serving on HMS Magpie

under Prince Philip, the future Queen’s husband, in 1951, and on aircraft carrier HMS Bulwark during the ’56 Suez Crisis. He became a sought-after radar specialist and commuted from Edinburgh to a secret Admiralty station near Blackpool to continue research.

They began raising three children from 1949, and the future looked full of clear skies and great fortune.

It was late 1961 when the cancer was detected on Rita’s breast. Her ageing parents did what they could to shoulder the parental load while Richard continued his essential commutes and sought to spend as much time at home as he could.

Richard had visited Italy in 1932 while on shore leave and again, with Rita, in 1952, to stare awe-struck, like so many, at Raphael’s The Transfiguration in Pinacoteca Vaticana, and they earnestly hoped to re-visit the masterpiece in 1962.

But the insidious cancer stripped away that final opportunity. Rita

succumbed in mid-1963, five months before Lee Harvey Oswald’s bullets in Dallas, Texas, would rip apart another fairy-tale romance.

Richard managed to make the pilgrimage to The Transfiguration in 1972 and 1982 – and also made a short visit to Australia in 1983. In 1992, he proved to be a late casualty of World War II “friendly fire” of sorts – he fell victim to mesothelioma, contracted from the asbestos-laden handrails and pipes of the warships upon which he served. He died at age 80.

And so, on April 25 each year, as I watch the old soldiers gather for their annual pilgrimage, I feel the great distance, yet close bonds that endured these many years ago – and am honoured and proud to turn my thoughts to my father, Lt Cmdr Richard Harcourt Lander, RN, and my mother, former WREN, singer, pianist, actor, and poet, Margerita Watt-Jupp, and thank them for all they did to find me here, safe, well and complete.

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READER STORY

When home is where your caravan is...

The dream of buying a caravan and heading off into the sunset sounds like a grand plan but ROBERT WEBBER learnt some valuable lessons.

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fter three years of deliberation we decided to buy a caravan. Within an hour of picking up the caravan, it seemed the biggest financial mistake of our lives.

We had come a long way to get to this point as it was easier to buy a house than choose a caravan or camper.

After staying in a cabin in a Broken Hill caravan park we decided not to buy anything.

After all, for around $120 a night we enjoyed a large TV, a spacious kitchen, a separate toilet and a bathroom with a bath.

It seemed to be financial madness to commit tens of thousands of dollars to a caravan. But one month later we paid a deposit on a new van.

What happened? And why did it seem to go so wrong?

Robert and Jenny Webber with their home away from home.

After Broken Hill we stayed in another caravan park, this time in a vintage van, freshly spray painted for our visit. (We found the empty paint cans in the bin).

It may have been cleaned prior to our visit but there were still spider webs next to the bed.

The power lead for the electric oven did not reach the power point. The heater made

a lot of noise but no warmth.

The TV had no aerial. Unless the door handle was turned a particular way the door would not open, and the less said about the shower and toilet block the better.

It was time to rethink.

As we wanted to go to the Outback we decided to get an off-road caravan with an ensuite, solar panels and an island queen size bed - 2500kg

of toughness could go and stay anywhere we wanted to go.

Or so we hoped.

After three years of mind-boggling caravan and camping shows, reading magazines, talking to friends, spreadsheets and budgeting, we finally made a decision.

On the day we picked up the van we chose a long but relatively easy route home from the dealer, avoiding tight corners and narrow lanes. The car and the front half of the caravan made it through our gate before we heard a crunch.

The vent covers for the fridge and water heater lay on the ground.

This was the time to remind myself of why we really wanted this van because just at that moment it seemed like a stupid idea.

But it did teach us some valuable new lessons.

Lesson No. 1: Always have someone outside spotting for trouble when you are navigating a tight spot.

Lesson No. 2: Caravans are easily fixed. Your pride and joy is a box of bits and a good

“As soon as it was obvious I had a problem blokes arrived quicker than mosquitoes at a barbecue.” caravan repairer can do wonders.

This second lesson is closely related to the third.

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READER STORY camper or motorhome who has not had something go wrong at some stage.

It doesn’t matter how much you have spent or how new your chosen recreational vehicle is - you may be able to get an extended warranty for your car, but the typical warranty of a recreational vehicle is for one year only, and you will be lucky if you avoid trouble in that year - we didn’t.

On our first major trip all the electrics failed. This was a surprise to us as we had sufficient battery power to last a week off the grid but we found we did not run our LED lights even after a full day of charging while we drove. A component in the electrical system had failed.

On our second major trip, it failed again. Of course this happens thousands of kilometres from home.

Sit around a campfire and everyone will share a similar, or worse, story.

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always help. Muddle around all you like but as soon as you put up the bonnet of your car, people will come from everywhere to help.

I have no mechanical ability at all. When our electrics failed I was quickly at the end of my wits but as soon as it was obvious I had a problem blokes arrived quicker than mosquitoes at a barbecue, and they had all the experience and skill I needed.

This expertise will often come in the form of advice.

It is very likely caravanning will not help your relationship until you sort out some matters. For example, I am a night owl, my wife is a morning person. This has to be sorted out in a tiny space where two people cannot walk at the same time.

The real relationship test comes with reversing and I must thank an elderly couple for their advice.

After watching us struggle to reverse into a space, even though we had a reversing

camera, an elderly couple came over and shared their relationship advice: Lesson No. 5: help the driver reverse by giving directions, gently, from the front passenger window. It is remarkable what a difference this makes.

If only this had happened 10,000km earlier!

We never had any intention of going off-road with our van but after travelling in the Outback we wanted a sturdy caravan that could go anywhere we wanted. Except, we found that we could not, or would not!

The best parts of Kakadu, for example, can only be accessed by a 4WD car. Our van could go on these tracks but only if we were prepared to have overhanging trees remove the air conditioner, solar panels and TV/radio aerial from the roof.

I also dread to think what would have happened if we had met a vehicle coming the other way if we were towing our van on these narrow tracks.

Lesson No. 6: Think carefully before you buy anything to tow that is wider or higher than your car.

This is a corollary of No. 7: Whatever you buy will be a compromise. No vehicle will do everything you want it to, whether it is a motorhome, caravan or camper.

I am saving the most important lesson of all and it came as advice from a longtime caravanner.

We thought we had bought our dream vehicle. It had enough bells and whistles to be a long-term investment, as we knew many people who were on to their third, fourth or even fifth camping vehicle.

When Max ambled over to our camp to look at our van he told us that the first van should not be what you really want, but a very cheap one, and if you are still married or with your partner after a trip away in it, go get the van of your dreams.

That is my lesson No. 8 and the most valuable lesson of all.

We no longer have a van – we decided to stay happily married instead.

The Webber rig on the road out of Burketown.

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HISTORY

Grand old homes have a story to tell Moray St, New Farm was the prestige address for anyone who valued their social standing in 1880s Brisbane. Author and historian GERARD BENJAMIN continues his guided tour.

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FS House was built on the corner with Sydney St in 1888 WANT TO know more? by wealthy merchant Leopold Benjamin and, now being faithfully restored, is an easily recognisable point to start this week’s journey.

On the corner diagonally opposite resided, from 1911, one of the suburb’s more eccentric figures, the doctor, scientist and author, Thomas Lucas (1843-1917).

The house was known as the Vera Papaw Hospital and Dr Lucas was so enthusiastic about the fruit’s merits that in 1914, he wrote the book, The Most Wonderful Tree in the World: Papaw House is gone but its outline still features on the ointment packaging.

The Papaw.

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NEW FARM HISTORICAL Benjamin features more than 20 Lucas’ original formula, is still made in The two-storied timber home SOCIETY homes and focuses on the people Brisbane.

Glenugie at 186 Moray St, dates from The New Farm & Districts who designed, built and lived in Its packaging features a line 1885 and is heritage listed.

Historical Society is one of them. drawing of the original Vera Papaw It had several owners before being Brisbane’s most popular, Homes with History is available Hospital. purchased in 1902 by the Hon. John regularly attracting attendances in soft and hardcover from Mary After the doctor’s death in 1917, his Archibald. of up to 100 at its monthly Ryan’s New Farm bookshop 3254 widow sold the hospital to William The son of a Scottish coal mine meetings.

0444 and New Farm Editions 3254 Bramwell Booth, the eldest son of manager, Archibald came to Because of the Easter long 2122, as well as from State Library General William Booth, founder of the Queensland as an 18-year-old and weekend, the next meeting will of Queensland Bookshop Salvation Army. steadily prospered. be on April 2, at the Uniting 3840 7576.

The house became a Salvation He became a Member of the Church Centre, 52 Merthyr Road, Army hostel but was dismantled in Legislative Council and proprietor of New Farm, starting 2pm. Topic is 1991, and flats were built on the site. the Dominion (Flour) Milling Co Ltd. local private hospitals and The remaining Sydney-Moray St In May 1929, the Archibald family nursing homes and guest speaker corner, once part of the old Merthyr gave Glenugie to the Presbyterian and will be former nurse Cluny The pleasure of viewing property, was not built on until 1930.

Methodist Churches for use as a hostel Seager, who is president of Royal New Farm’s historical gems That was when Mrs Sarah Balls for girls which became known as Brisbane Hospitals Nurses is best enjoyed on foot. Gerard commissioned leading Brisbane Archibald House.

Association and Nursing Benjamin will be leading a walk architect Eric Trewern to build the The home is now in private hands.

Museum. Admission $5 includes of New Farm for 2½ hours on dramatic Spanish Mission-style A recent resident recalls, “We afternoon tea. Meetings are May 21. For more information residence, Santa Barbara. created quite a lot of our own history usually on the fourth Saturday of and bookings, contact Bright One of Brisbane’s most expensive while the house was under our care, each month, so there will be Learning 3666 0924 or visit homes at the time (£4000), the most notably hosting the Dalai Lama’s another on April 23. brightlearning.com.au. residence, with its cordoba terracotta nine Gyuto monks and minders. Grace Call 0409 498 402. tiled roof and curvaceous and bell-like before meals never sounded more chimney, still turns heads. amazing!”

When Mrs Balls was widowed TAKE A WALK THROUGH HISTORIC SANDGATE in 1898 with four children, she The Sandgate & District Historical Society and Museum will present a managed hotels, then successfully series of guided walks this month. tendered for the running of All of the walks are rated “easy” and start at 9.30am. railway refreshment rooms the Cost is $25 which includes refreshments. Bookings are essential as length and breadth of the state. numbers are limited.

Her other business ventures • Sunday, April 3: Historical buildings of Sandgate and early Bayside included a fish cannery on Bribie history.

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• Sunday, April 10: Peep into the past – the historic houses of Sandgate In 1944, Mrs Balls’ grandson, • Saturday, April 16: Discovering the secrets of our pioneers at the Bald who had been raised in France, Hills cemetery. was featured in The Courier-Mail.

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Their Story Not long ago, when Kay’s needed new hearing aids set up she of course went to Falls of Sound to have them adjusted. Being in the public eye, she appreciates how inconspicuous the devices are and knew their reputaƟon for quality service.

Apparently, though, she wasn’t quite prepared for the level of workmanship that Nick brings to his job. A few days aŌer her fiƫng he received this email from her.

“Nick I just wanted to thank you for your brilliant adjustment to my new hearing aids.

You are a true professional and I appreciate being able to `hear’!”

Kay Lipton www.artlipton.net And then he received a package.

Kay had taken the Ɵme to do a portrait of Nick and sent it to him as a way of saying, thank you.

Nick, always the gentlemen of course sat down and sent her a note

of thanks.

“Hi Kay, I can’t thank you enough for the gorgeous portrait and your compliments! Its people like you that make this such a rewarding job.

Thanks again, you have made my week already.

Kind regards, Nick Parkyn” To which she replied: “Dear Nick, To be able to `give something back’ for the joy of hearing, besides payment of services, is truly a very saƟsfying thing for me to do! It is only just now that I have had `the pip’ to change baƩeries, by coincidence... I am well stocked. At present I am working on my next aucƟon of my work in Roseberys AucƟon House London. The last one was so successful!”

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personal aƩenƟon and we are very lucky to have him working for us.

The fact that someone of Kay’s stature feels so strongly about him and our company that she would lend her name and work to us is just beyond measure and I hope she realises how much she means to us as a client and accepts our thanks in return.

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MOTORING

Reward yourself with an easy ride The popularity of the SUV is growing with the maturing Australian population and as BRUCE McMAHON writes, they’re easy on old bones.

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he BMWs of Germany have long been aspirational machines and these days there’s a welter of BMWs to reward hard and clever workers of all ages.

The biggest single-selling model in Australia is the good-looking and well-credentialed BMW X5 wagon with 3 litre diesel engine.

That’s a tourer for all seasons, albeit at the sharper end of the price list.

Now, to encourage a fresh lot of customers from baby boomers to young families, BMW have two new cheaper SUVs on offer, the sX1 wagons starting at $49,900.

While the Germans were a little slower than others - such as the Americans and Brits - in tackling the Sports Utility Vehicle market, it’s all action stations these days as SUV sales continue to climb across the western world.

BMW prefers to catalogue their line up as SAVs - Sports Activity Vehicles.

And in some ways this is a more righteous classification, for these machines are not the dual range,

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high-riding four-wheel drives such as the Jeep Wagonner and Range Rover which gave rise to the SUV class.

Many so-called SUVs today, some with only two-wheel drive, are good for riding over kerbs or heading for the snowfields on a miserable winter day or climbing the bank at the footy oval.

Not so handy for bush or beach tracks.

Still, this growing attraction of SUVs and faux-SUVs parallels to some extent the maturing of the Australian population.

These vehicles offer higher driving positions, easier entry and egress, less

concern about those ubiquitous speed bumps plus all the comforts and conveniences of a modern hatchback.

There’s a wealth of choice these days from all corners of the motoring world.

And at a range of sizes and prices and badges.

Despite being one of the pioneers of the premium SUV class with that ever-popular X5 and then the smaller X3, BMW’s mantle had slipped askew at the bottom end of this particular sub-class where the compact BMW X1 was being beaten up by the likes of Audi’s Q3, the handsome Mercedes-Benz GLA and the Lexus NX. So late last year an all-new BMW X1 arrived in showrooms.

Designed by Sydney-born Calvin Luk this is a better-looking wagon than the first generation of X1s; there is more muscle tone, more “SUVness” to a slightly wider body.

Built around a platform used for the Mini and BMW’s 2 Series Active Tourer,

the X1 range for 2016 now also includes two front-wheel drive versions - the sDrive X1s - along with those all-wheel drive versions.

All offer better accommodation and classier cabins than before plus the usual, and quite lengthy, line-up of all manner of premium comfort features, right through to an automatic tailgate.

The latest two-wheel drive X1s should attract more custom from a wider range of folk. There is good room for four Australian-sized adults plus decent luggage space. The X1s use run-flat tyres so there’s no spare wheel taking up room.

The 141kW, 2 litre petrol sX1 at $51,600 offers a more sporting drive than the 1.8 litre diesel version but can’t match the claimed 4.3 litres per 100km of the diesel X1.

Both are comfortable and wellmannered wagons, even if there are sometimes questions about the grip and ride offered by those run-flat tyres.

And best to stick to the bitumen.

These are premium SUVs, not goanywhere machines.

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TECHNOLOGY

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slow because malicious software is slowing it down by running in the background. It might not be full malware but it interferes with your web browsing by tracking it and adding additional advertisements to the webpage. To be safe keep your antivirus up to date and scan your computer regularly. You can also scan it with Malwarebytes, a free malware scanner.

5. GET A PROFESSIONAL TO GIVE YOUR COMPUTER A THOROUGH CLEAN Have your computer regularly serviced. Like taking your car for a service, it pays to have a technician clean up and optimize your computer.

Most of my clients donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t notice how laborious their computer is until itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s serviced. Then they wonder why they persisted for so long. I would suggest a good clean every six months. Not only will it get your computer running at speed it will also extend its life.

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1. RUN DISK CLEANUP Windows has a built-in tool that deletes temporary files and other unimportant data. To access it, go to your Start Menu, then in the search bar type â&#x20AC;&#x153;disk cleanupâ&#x20AC;?. You can also clean up system files, which donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appear in the list here. To do that, click the Clean up system files button if you also want to delete system files.

2. UNINSTALL UNUSED PROGRAMS Over time we all download programs that we use only a couple of times.

They use up memory and hard drive space and ultimately contribute to a slow computer. From the Start Menu type â&#x20AC;&#x153;control panelâ&#x20AC;?, then â&#x20AC;&#x153;Programs and Featuresâ&#x20AC;?. Look for programs that you do not use any more. If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know what itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for then donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t uninstall.

3. USE CCLEANER For a more aggressive temporary and junk file cleaning, try Ccleaner. It is free and simple. Search for Ccleaner then download the free version.

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Mumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the word for a good read Reading on an iPad has its advantages writes COLIN DUNKERLEY, The iPad Man. And there are lots of other smart things to do as well.

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few years ago I gave my Mum an iPad for Motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Day. I must admit she wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t overly excited.

My Mum had never used computers in her life and the one she did end up buying five or six years ago didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see much use.

What a difference a few years makes. When my parents visited last year we were heading out for the day, when I was asked to turn around and go back. Mum had left her iPad behind.

A product that she was barely interested in as a gift had become an indispensable tool that she liked to have with her. What had changed?

Now before you think that her son gives iPad lessons for a living, she didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want them and besides, Mum and Dad at that stage lived in Sydney, so it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t as though I could call around to help. If Mum was going to use an iPad she wanted to figure it out for herself and that she did!

Of course Mum says she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use the iPad that often, an opinion Dad doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t share.

He messaged: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mum doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t use the iPad very often, except for reading books, shopping, playing games, sending messages, Facetime, checking out Facebook, Googling, finding recipes - apart from that not much!â&#x20AC;? I had to laugh! What really impressed me was Mum reading books on the iPad. Her house is full of books so I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think she would give them up.

She pointed out, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have had eye surgery twice, wear reading glasses and sometimes I pick up books where the printed text is so small I just put it back on the shelf. With the iPad I can make the text size whatever size I want and I can be carrying around dozens of books at a time.â&#x20AC;?

She also said that if she ever runs out of anything to read she can download a new book in around 20 seconds. If you would like to see how the iPad can be used to read books plus many other great features come along for a free iPad lesson at Mooloolaba Bowls Club on Friday, April 15 or 22.

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SOCIALS

ST LUKE’S THEATRE SOCIETY At the opening night of St Luke’s Theatre Society’s A Month of Sundays, Roz Dempsey is buzzing around passing trays of food and morsels of information.

“I’m nobody important,” she says, downplaying her role running the society’s front-ofhouse and charity shop. (Last year the group, which donates all of its profits to charity, raised $5000.)

Instead, she steers us towards some of the theatre group’s luminaries, here to celebrate the 68-year-old society’s 200th play.

Margaret Doumany is a veteran, having performed with St Luke’s for 43 years, most recently in 2014 in Travelling North.

Across the foyer is Jan Moody who, at 91, is the last surviving foundation member and a proud bearer of an Order of Australia for services to theatre.

And out the front, quietly sipping his second glass of red wine, is director Cameron Gaffney whose link to St Luke’s goes back to his school days when he played violin for the musicals under the direction of his mother, pianist Ann. “I’m not nervous at all,” he says, taking another sip. “It’s all up to the cast now.”

Words: Angela Bensted Pictures: Bridie Devereaux

Richelle Faulkner, Ruth Paterson and Ted Faulkner

Dale Absolon and Sylvia Absolon

Jan Moody and Jan Given Spence

Desley Soden and Beverley Soden

Cameron Gaffney

Jenny Lukowski and Margaret Doumany

Lyle Schwarten and Annabelle Crittall

Lynne Schofield and Maxine McElnea

Moya Pennell and Jan Moody

Roz Dempsey

Sue Johnson and Pat Kratzke

VILLANOVA PLAYERS Patrons of Villanova Players know how to dress up. A sea of satin and tinkling tiaras filled the foyer on opening night of its latest production Five Women Wearing the Same Dress. The theatre group is temporarily homeless, alternating its 2016 season between Yeronga State High School in Annerley and Clearview Village in Seven Hills while its permanent digs are renovated.

Anthony Wade-Cooper and Bruce Stanley

Glenda Jones and Heather Jones

Jan Kennedy and Tony Kennedy

Margaret O’Donnell, a member of Villanova Players for more than 50 years, says her children learned how to paint courtesy of the group.

“They used to paint the flats between plays, cleaning off the scribbled cues that the actors wrote on them,” she says.

Although moving around has its challenges, Margaret says it could be worse, recalling that their original home at St James in Coorparoo had dirt floors in the men’s dressing rooms. Villanova Players’ next show, Seven Little Australians, is May 27-June 19.

Visit villanovaplayers.com Words: Angela Bensted. Pictures: Bridie Devereaux

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SPORT

High speed on the courts If you thought badminton was lazily swatting at a shuttlecock, then ANGELA BENSTED suggests you had better think again.

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ome people hear “badminton” and visualise ladies in long frocks and chaps in straw boaters, languidly batting at feathered shuttles as a picnic pastime.

“I remembered playing shuttlecock on the beach and I thought any fool can do that,” says Joy Iles, convenor of Brisbane’s Midweek Badminton Club, who was introduced to the sport by a neighbour many years ago.

She had played tennis before and didn’t expect this new game to be a challenge.

“But I was so bad,” Joy says, shaking her head. “I was the worst one out there. My neighbour told me to go home and practise in the kitchen.”

An Olympic sport since 1992, there were 46 shots volleyed in one 42-second rally during the mixed doubles semi-final at the 2000 Sydney games.

“That gives you some idea of the speed of the game at the top level,” Joy’s husband Bryan says.

Despite an average age of “retired” and a good smattering of knee and elbow braces among the players, it’s a very fit bunch on the Redlands PCYC courts on Wednesday mornings.

Some of the players slamming the shuttlecock around once played at high level, others have come to it later, perhaps because their children played or they were looking for a sport less demanding than tennis or squash.

Many are surprised to find it’s not an easy transition.

Badminton is trickier – and more aggressive – than it looks.

And while the court may be smaller, players don’t stand still.

“Despite an average age of ‘retired’ and a good smattering of knee and elbow braces among the players, it’s a very fit bunch on the Redlands PCYC courts.”

The sport takes its name from Badminton House, home of the English Duke of Beaufort, who introduced a version of the game, Poona, from India in 1873.

While the rules of the modern game developed in England, Asian countries now dominate the sport and the International Badminton Foundation is headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

“In China, everyone has a badminton racquet,” Joy says. “You’ll

see badminton on the TV there more than you’ll see tennis on the TV here.”

Despite her shaky introduction to the sport, Joy fell in love with the sport and went on to play at a high level, making it as far as A-grade. “I kept the good players honest,” she says.

Bryan, who started playing only to give Joy some hitting practise, served on the board of the Queensland Badminton Association for 20 years, 14 of them as president. He was awarded the Australian Sports Medal in 2000.

The Midweek Badminton Club (midweekbadminton.org ) meets at Capalaba and Shailer Park.

With an average age of 70 and the oldest member just celebrating his 90th birthday, Joy reckons the club is ideal for retirees.

“We believe we can still move enough to get some fitness and camaraderie from a challenging morning of badminton,” she says.

For information on other clubs in Brisbane visit brisbanebadminton.org

DID YOU KNOW? • Badminton has clocked the fastest hit in sport, with a smash

by Malaysian Tan Boon Heong reaching 421 kph to beat golf, tennis, soccer, baseball and hockey • A shuttlecock, also known as a birdie, is made from 16 feathers from the left wing of a goose attached to a piece of goat skin covered cork.

• In competition, badminton players compete for about half the time of a tennis match, but can run twice as far and hit nearly twice as many shots.

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HEART AWARENESS

Step out for Heart Week

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alf of the heart attack victims being admitted to Queensland hospitals have been there before – it will not be their first heart attack but the second or third.

Repeat heart attacks are a major concern for the Heart Foundation and one it believes can addressed by more survivors attending cardiac rehabilitation.

Heart Foundation Queensland CEO, Stephen Vines, said about 55,000 Australians would have a heart attack each year. Unfortunately most of them will leave hospital without a cardiac rehabilitation plan.

“There are many reasons why – not getting a referral, living too far from a hospital or simply not having the time, are some of the reasons we hear,” he said.

“It’s startling that people can survive a heart attack and then walk away from hospital without any program of care to help them reduce their risk of another.

“Without going to cardiac rehabilitation and making the changes they need to reduce their heart attack

Walking the way to a healthy heart.

risk they have a one in three chance of being back through the emergency door of the hospital having another heart attack within 12 months.

“And with each heart attack there is an increased chance that it could be fatal, so it makes good sense to do cardiac rehabilitation and stop the next heart attack before it happens,” Mr Vines said.

Heart Week is May 1-7 and the Heart Foundation is taking the opportunity to shine a light on cardiac rehabilitation and the positive steps heart attack survivors can make for a healthier future.

Walking more is one of the simple changes that can improve health and reduce risk.

BENEFITS OF WALKING “Prevention is always better than cure and I encourage all Queenslanders to look at how they put some activity into their day,” Mr Vines said.

The Heart Foundation Walking program has more than 5000 participants in Queensland and keen for new members.

Joining a walking group is seen as a great way to get motivated and maintain commitment for regular activity.

Heart Foundation Walking is proud to partner with Fitbit as a national sponsor and Queensland Government as a State sponsor.

For more information on Heart Week or Heart Foundation Walking call 3872 2500 or visit heartfoundation.org.au Story Bridge will be a blaze of red on Sunday, May 1, to announce the start of Heart Week. There will be a memorial and thanksgiving service at St Stephen’s Cathedral at 2pm the same day. Everyone is welcome to attend. Heart Week will conclude on Saturday, May 7, with an 8.30am walk in the City Botanic Gardens.

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BENEFITS OF A WALKING GROUP • a great way to socialise • builds strong support networks with family and friends • a way to engage with the community, while having fun and being active • keeps you motivated.

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Heart Foundation Walking is a network of free walking groups that give people an easy way to look after their health. We are looking for volunteer Walk Organisers to establish small groups of walkers in their local areas. We provide free training and resources.

For more information contact 1300 36 27 87 or visit www.heartfoundation.org.au/walking

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AGELESS TIMES

Let go of past grief and enjoy the present Everyone has to let go of something at some time in their lives and as PETER SHIP writes, it is a healthy thing to do.

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t’s difficult for parents when their child learns to walk, watching this little person pull themselves up knowing there is a high probability that they will fall and get hurt.

We cannot always be there to catch them but we must allow them to develop their skills and grow regardless of a few bumps and bruises on the way.

I found it very difficult with our first child to let go and not be overly protective until I realised we learn from both good and not so good experiences throughout our lives.

At some time we will all face the letting-go test, quite likely on numerous occasions. Sometimes it will be letting go of possessions or a driving licence, maybe a home so that we can downsize to something more manageable.

It could be when we retire and have to let go of the security of having a job five days a week. Some folk may have to let go of good health or wealth.

But regardless of who we are, or our circumstances, we have a time of letting go, and no one is immune from the pain of having to let go of a loved one. We

self pity that can lead us to the darkness of depression.

It opens new doors to finding fulfilment as a volunteer or becoming creative or just being a better person to be around.

Letting go allows us to experience new satisfaction with our lives that, although changed, can still be rewarding. We have our memories but that is not where we live right now. are left to cope without them and we have to “let go” if we are going to have a fulfilled life.

Being willing to let go promotes the healing process of grief. It does not mean you must forget who or what you have lost, but it does help you cope with the loss. I have spoken with many grieving people in the past 30 years and death has not always been the cause of their grief.

It can be a lost job, declining social status, health, children and grandchildren moving away, a lost pet, retirement, having to leave the farm.

Being willing to “let go” helps us to grow and mature and sets us free from

We don’t stop living just because we suffer loss.

There is just one question we all must ask ourselves, “do I grasp the past or let it go?”

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RETIREMENT LIVING

THE SECRET – GARDENING

When it comes to wedded bliss, John and Lyn Call are just as in love as when they first met 33 years ago.

Now retired and living at Buderim Gardens on the Sunshine Coast, Lyn, 66, and John, 79, say although the secret to a happy union is communication and laughter, their mutual love for gardening is just as important.

“When we moved in here we had our work cut out for us,” John says.

It wasn’t long before the duo created an Asian-inspired yard, transforming the outdoor living area of their spacious two-bedroom home into

IDYLLIC LIFE AT NATURE’S EDGE Picture the scene: You drive through the security gates after a round of golf or a cup of freshly brewed organic coffee down the road, and hear only the birds and breezes stirring in the rainforest.

As you tap the remote control to open your double or single lockup garage, you notice the gardener has trimmed the plants in the front garden.

VOLUNTEER BRINGS JOY TO OUTBACK CHILDREN a tranquil and modern zen garden.

They have used space with vertical wall gardens, potted plants and striking colours.

The stunning garden has given them time together and a beautiful space to relax and entertain.

In fact, it has gained so much attention around the village that the creative couple are now helping others whip their own gardens into shape with private consultations.

“It’s about showing people what you can create,” John says proudly.

He also explains that designing your own backyard paradise can be easy with proper planning and good research.

“We get a real kick out of sharing our love for gardening, which I think is what we’ve done so far at Buderim Gardens,” Lyn says.

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You wave to your neighbours who have just returned from a trip in their RV, which is now parked safely within the retreat.

You walk a few steps into your new, stylish, architect-designed home and take a breath of contentment.

This is life at Natures Edge Resort in the foothills of Buderim.

The key to the first Nature’s Edge home was handed over a year ago and since then, a further 19 home owners

HALCYON COMMUNITY SCORES A DOUBLE CENTURY

RECOGNISED as the fastest selling over 50s community on the northside of Brisbane, Halcyon Glades recently rolled out the red carpet to welcome its 100th home owners.

And in another milestone, Halcyon Glades has become the 100th project nationally to receive EnviroDevelopment certification from the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA).

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second retirement community in Australia to receive full six-leaf EnviroDevelopment certification.

This accredits the project in the areas of ecosystems, waste, energy, materials, water and community.

National EnviroDevelopment Board of Management chairman, Matthew Gross, said Halcyon had demonstrated ongoing commitment to delivering sustainability features for the benefit of its home owners and the wider community.

“Importantly, Halcyon has created a liveable community that delivers a positive contribution to the environment,” he said.

“It is a truly ‘green’ development which acknowledges the importance of achieving sustainability targets that ultimately lead to a reduction in living costs for home owners.”

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KANGAROO Lines Bus Driver Jeff Park devotes his leisure time to collecting and delivering Christmas presents on a 2000km bus trip to children in drought-stricken Outback Queensland.

The Caloundra Power Boat Club, Bunnings and Radio FM104.9 recognised his initiative and hard work with an award last month.

Mr Park started collecting and delivering presents to children in Dulacca in 2014, with a coach provided

by Kangaroo Bus Lines, Burpengary.

“I have driven bus tours to outback Queensland for many years and the current drought is the worst I have ever seen,” Mr Park said. “I started with the aim of giving three presents to each child in the area around and in Dulacca but the generosity of locals meant we had $6500 cash for the local council to provide vouchers to needy families.”

Last year, four state schools, and a

have moved in and another 21 homes are being built.

The latest release in Stage 1, The Summit, is proving to be another winner with its proximity to lush rainforest and works are beginning on Stage 2.

The $2.5 million entertainment centre starts soon and will feature a swimming pool and spa, gymnasium with massage area, games lounge with pool table and darts plus an arts and crafts studio, giant chess area, herb garden and library.

There will be a central kitchen and bar plus an alfresco dining and barbecue area. A dance floor, media

Howard Montgomery of Bunnings, Jeff Park of Kangaroo Bus Lines, Sharon Reid of FM104.9 and Adam Melbourne of the Caloundra Power Boat Club at the presentation.

northside Catholic school, joined in the selection and collection of presents for delivery to children in Dulacca, Quilpie and Charleville. High school students have also helped to distribute the presents, giving them an insight to the impact of the drought on the people of Outback Queensland.

Nominations for the monthly award can be made by emailing FM104.9 at office@sunshinefm.com.au detailing in 25 words the reason for the nomination.

room, floodlit tennis court, bowling green, and golf putting green all add to the huge range of facilities within a short walk of your front door.

Security is of paramount importance at Nature’s Edge, and the new entry gate is only accessible with a pre-programmed key. Each unit is fitted with a security pad which enables you see who is at the gate and to allow friends and relatives in. A caretaker will oversee the day to day running of the retreat and a bus will be available for community events off site.

Visit Nature’s Edge at 25 Owen Creek Rd, Forest Glen or call 1800 218 898

MEET THE NOOSA DOMAIN COUNTRY CLUB LOCALS Noosa Domain, only five minutes from Noosa’s famous Hasting Street and beach at Laguna Bay, offers resort style living in a quality country club exclusively for over 55s.

Independent homes with an abundance of lifestyle choices combine to provide a quality of life, independence and great company in a secure community.

Country Club Villages include an active community centre with entertainment, club bar facilities and village bus.

Village activities are wide and varied and include outdoor and indoor bowls, billiards, gym, heated pools, tennis court and frequent social events.

Cycling, fishing, boat trips (in the Village boat) aqua aerobics, walking groups, dining and theatre events are just a few of the social activities enjoyed by residents.

If you are seeking low maintenance, a quality living environment with security, social companionship, freedom and lifestyle choices, then visit Noosa Domain.

And a good time to do that is on Friday, April 15, when a two-course lunch will be provided before a tour of the country club and a chance to meet residents. It’s at 12.15pm for 12.30pm.

RSVP April 7, to 1800 461 505, visit noosadomain.com.au or meet consultant Brian Williams on site.

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WEALTH

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f a person dies and they have not made adequate provision in their will for the proper maintenance and support of their spouse, children or other dependants then the spouse, children or dependants can apply to the court to have the situation corrected.

The court may, at its discretion, order that such provision as it thinks fit be made from the estate for the benefit of the person or persons who have made the application.

The application which is made under these circumstances is known as a family provision application (FPA).

Have you provided for your family?

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Careful estate planning will minimise the risk of a future family provision claim being made, as JOHN DE GROOT explains.

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The court considers these applications in a two-stage process: 1. Whether or not adequate provision has been made for the applicant’s proper maintenance and support. The applicant must satisfy the court that adequate provision has not been made before the court can consider making any provision in favour of the applicant.

2. If adequate provision has not been made then the court considers whether an order for provision will be made (by the court) and, if so, in what amount. The size of the estate, the provisions under the Will, the applicant’s financial position and the relationship between the applicant and the deceased are all considerations that are taken into account by the court in making a decision.

This is a complicated area of law and its implications need to be borne in mind when planning your estate. It should also be kept in mind that there is certain property to which an FPA may not apply.

Proper legal advice during your estate planning can help to minimise the risk of a family provision claim on your estate in the future.

Only a spouse, child or dependant of the deceased can make a family provision claim.

Each of these terms – spouse, child and dependant – is specifically defined in the legislation governing family provision applications.

The limitation period for the making of a family provision application is nine months in Queensland from the date of death; however, the

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court has discretion to extend this timeframe.

A family provision application can be made either before or after a grant of probate or letters of administration have been issued.

It can be a lengthy and expensive process but the majority of FPAs are settled by negotiated offers between the parties or through a mediation rather than through a trial.

If you think you should have received greater provision under a will or you are an executor of an estate that has been given notice of an intended FPA claim you should seek specialist legal advice.

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ARTS

A community centre by any other name As interesting old buildings rapidly disappear under apartment blocks, a church was rescued and turned into an arts venue. ANGELA BENSTED talks to the man who made it happen.

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emolition and development was threatening St Mary Madgalene church in Boundary Rd, Bardon just over four years ago when Mervyn Langford stepped in to buy the building and reinvent it as a suburban cultural centre.

He set up a not-for-profit incorporated association, Magna Community Artz, a name Mervyn says “is a bit grandiose” but which reflects the venue’s many offerings.

“We’re not a QPAC. We’re not a jazz club. We’re not a folkie hang out. We’re not a theatre restaurant. We’re not a festival of ideas,” Mervyn says. “But we’re a smattering of all of them.”

No-one can doubt Mervyn’s commitment to the performing arts. He has just shaved off a 22-year-old beard for the sake of a role with MATES Theatre Genesis in the play Uncle Jack.

“The last time I shaved it was to perform in Dimboola in 1982,” he says.

But his passion is as much for preserving the building as for promoting the arts.

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Mervyn Langford has turned vision to reality.

“Churches were always a community centre,” he says, frustrated by a perceived inner-city trend to build units where houses once lived and to privatise churches.

“So you’ve got an increasing density of people and even fewer places where people can eyeball each other,” he says.

“And what is a community if you cannot actually meet and talk about things, whatever it is?”

In its new guise, the church

continues to act as a community hub, just offering a different brand of theatre.

“It’s a charming venue. The acoustics are lovely,” Mervyn says. It’s thanks to its sprung, timber floor with a rich amber patina built up over years of polishing.

A small statue of Mary looks on from the back of the hall, a nod to the building’s previous life. The 1964 church replaced the original 1937 mission hall, which was moved to the back of the block and is now Mervyn’s home.

“There’s an absolute dearth of places for performers,” he says. “We aim at providing a whole range, right across the spectrum, of locally grown artistic talent. But we’ve also had international artists here – opera singers, theatre groups, country singers.”

With its proximity to the city and a bus stop at the front door, Mervyn also

sees the venue filling a niche for community groups currently renting commercial or church buildings for meeting spaces.

A question-and-answer session with Scotland’s first female Muslim magistrate attracted a crowd of 55 people, some from as far as Warwick and Lismore. A benefit concert by 38 of Brisbane’s finest up-and-coming classical musicians last year raised nearly $4000 for relief work in Nepal.

Magda Community Artz is not a gold mine. In fact revenue does not cover costs yet.

But Mervyn is confident it will become self-sustaining one day.

“If the church had succeeded in its application to demolish the building there’d be I don’t know how many units here,” he says. “Music and dance and culture are integral to an interesting and worthwhile life. I want to bring that to the neighbourhood.”

Information on upcoming events at magdacommunityartz.org

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WHAT’S ON

Bush musical as warm as a handshake

The Reedy River cast brings Australian folk music to life.

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eedy River, set in an outback shearing town in the turbulent aftermath of the national shearers’ strike of 1891, is rich in the story of the struggles between the landholders, workers, government and banks.

Written by Dick Diamond, Reedy River has become an icon of Australian theatre and has helped popularise Australian folk music with songs such as Click go the Shears, On the Banks of the Condamine and My Old Black Billy.

In this, Reedy River’s 60th anniversary

year, the MATES Theatre Genesis cast is joined by acclaimed Australian folksinger John Thompson in the role of Joe, a shearer who risked his family fighting for a principle.

Join us for a glimpse of this vital part of our history, enjoy the songs you’re sure to know and meet the colourful characters of Reedy River in this heartwarming bush musical.

Redland Performing Arts Centre.

Friday, April 8, and Saturday 9, 7pm.

Tickets $20, seniors/pensioners $15, Bookings rpac.com.au or 3829 8131.

BOLSHOI BALLET DANCES INTO THE CINEMA ONE of the world’s oldest and most revered ballet companies, the Bolshoi Ballet, will be coming direct from the stage in Moscow to the big screen in Brisbane. Dendy Cinemas will premiere its breathtaking new Bolshoi Ballet Cinema Series at Portside Wharf.

The Bolshoi Ballet was founded in Moscow in 1776 and has achieved international recognition as one of the world’s leading companies. The Bolshoi Ballet Cinema season is recorded live in Moscow and broadcast in high definition and full surround sound.

In a special performance staged exclusively for the cinema series, French choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot’s adaptation of Shakespearian comedy The Taming of the Shrew has been tailored specifically to Bolshoi dancers.

The critically acclaimed Don Quixote was first performed in the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow in 1869. The performance for the Cinema Series features new sets and costumes to accompany the adaptation of Cervantes’ novel.

Dendy Cinema, Portside. The Taming of the Shrew: Saturday, April 16, 10am and Sunday 17, 2pm. Don Quixote:

Sleeping Beauty Bolshoi Zaharova.

Photo by Bausova Saturday, May 7, 10am and Sunday 8, 2pm. Tickets $25, seniors $24. Visit dendy.com.au/Promotion/The-BolshoiBallet.

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WHAT’S ON

Educating Rita – comedy with a life lesson

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wo worlds collide in Willy Russell’s charming and wonderfully entertaining comedy classic Educating Rita, that has been loved by audiences for over 30 years.

This new production from HIT Productions is directed by AFI Award winning director Denny Lawrence and stars Helpmann Award winning actor Colin Moody as Frank and Francesca Bianchi as Rita.

Frank is a cynical, burnt-out English professor who drinks too much whiskey. Rita is a hairdresser and a bit

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naive. She has, however, a wonderful and indeed desperate thirst for knowledge and she chooses Frank to introduce her to culture.

Frank soon discovers that Rita has a lot more common sense than the so-called educated class within which he moves and he begins to fall in love with her.

Funny, serious, social documentary, fairy tale – it’s a modern Pygmalion.

Redland Performing Arts Centre Wednesday, April 20, 7.30pm.

Tickets $48, seniors/pensioners $45 Bookings rpac.com.au or 3829 8131

An unlikely match.

LATEST MUSICA VIVA TOUR BRINGS ACCLAIMED PIANIST ACCLAIMED British-Australian pianist Stephen Hough returns to Australia for his fourth Musica Viva tour, bringing a recital program of great emotion and breathtaking virtuosity.

Hough will open his Australian program with one of Schubert’s late sonatas, a “sonata of sighs”, thought to have been written just after the diagnosis of his final illness.

Hough describes the whole of the first half as a big progression from darkness to

light. Concluding the program are stunning pieces by Liszt.

Sonata No. 3, Trinitas, will make its Australian premiere on this tour.

In the new sonata, commissioned by the Catholic magazine The Tablet and the Barbician Centre, Hough – whose faith is a driving force in his creativity – has been inspired by the symbolism of the number 3 and what he sees as the parallel dogmas of the Trinity in the church and of 12-tone serialism in music.

We look forward to welcoming you at Sunnybank Theatre Group

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Redland Performing Arts Centre presents

FEATURING JOHN THOMPSON AS JOE

Season from April 1 to 16

Sunnybank Thea Theatre Group

Brisbane

Redland Performing Arts Centre in association with MATES Theatre Genesis present

Presented in association with ORiGiN Theatrical.

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Noted detective writer Andrew Wyke, who, on discovering his ƵĜüåűŸ ĜĹĀÚåĬĜƋƼØ ĜĹƴĜƋåŸ Ęåų ĹåƵ lover, Milo Tindle to visit him to discuss the situation. Instead of being upset and saddened by the ĹåƵŸ Ņü ĘĜŸ ƵĜüåűŸ ĜĹĀÚåĬĜƋƼØ ĜƋ seems that Andrew is quite happy to hand her over to Milo, and the pair set about discussing how this might happen.

And so the intrigue begins.

Conservatorium Theatre, 16 Russell St, South Brisbane. Tuesday, April 26, 7pm. Tickets $30-$97.

Visit musicaviva.com.au

CELEBRATE one of Queensland’s most iconic sporting events this Easter, at the Sandgate Bluewater Festival celebrating the 68th QantasLink Brisbane to Gladstone Yacht Race which starts on Good Friday.

Bayfire Night will bring fireworks over the Shorncliffe Pier and live entertainment by moonlight, including an enchanting lantern parade, market stalls and gourmet food.

On Good Friday, spectators can enjoy the best position for the start of the race from Shorncliffe Pier or Moora Park Sandgate.

There will be market stalls, free entertainment on the main stage and roving entertainers. This year’s festival also celebrates the re-opening of the Shorncliffe Pier.

The Brisbane to Gladstone race, the second biggest in Australia, starts 11am Friday.

Entrants will include the natyion’s best race boats from Queensland as well as interstate rivals.

Brisbane City Council buses will be running to the festival which is also just a stroll from Shorncliffe and Sandgate train stations.

Visit bluewaterfestival.org.au

A BUSH MUSICAL 'AS WARM AS A HANDSHAKE' BY DICK DIAMOND This icon of Australian theatre is set in an outback shearing town in the turbulent aftermath of the national shearers’ strike of 1891.

Starring Colin Moody and Francesca Bianchii Two very different worlds collide in Willy Russell’s charming and d wonderfully entertaining ng comedy classic.

Featuring Australian folk favourites including: Click go the Shears, On the Banks of the Condamine and My Old Black Billy.

WED 20 APRIL, 7.30PM

FRI 8 & SAT 9 APRIL, 7PM

Tickets: $35 – $48 Bookings: 3829 8131 or www.rpac.com.au

REDLAND PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE - AUDITORIUM

Tickets: $10 – $20 Bookings: 3829 8131 or www.rpac.com.au Booking fees: $4 per transaction by phone; $3 per ticket online.

Redland Performing Arts Centre – Concert Hall

Booking fees: $4 per transaction by phone; $3 per ticket online.

A production by Christine Harris & HIT Productions Australia’s Premier Theatre Touring Company

Special thanks to New Theatre, Sydney

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the WORLD in Your Hands

Travel in Your Time

Get in touch with essential Australia Some say Kaka-don’t but grey nomad BEVERLEY EVERSON says it’s most definitely Kakadu.

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he World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory covers nearly 20,000sq km and is one of the few places listed for both cultural and natural values.

The exceptional beauty has a variety of landforms, habitats and wildlife. It is home to about one-fifth of Australia’s mammals, more than 2000 plant species, reptiles, frogs, tidal and freshwater fish species, more than 10,000 insect species and it provides habitats for about 290 bird species.

Its wetlands hold international importance as a major staging point for migratory birds and some species are not found anywhere else in the world.

The easiest way to get to Kakadu is by road (about 253km east of Darwin) which is bitumen sealed and excellent for driving.

Kakadu is open year-round and seasons are divided into dry and wet.

The park entry pass is based on two rates - dry season, April 1 to October 31 and tropical summer, November 1 to March 31.

I would recommend a 14-day entry pass which does not include camping sites or accommodation but does include ranger-guided walks and talks.

Should you wish to continue on to Arnhem Land a further permit is required from the Northern Land Council. For all information regarding entry passes and permits to Kakadu visit parksaustralia.gov.au/kakadu I visited at the end of the dry season

Across flood plains – the spectacle of the sunburnt country.

so missed out on seeing Jim Jim and Twin Falls flowing and the water holes were low, with burn-off season already underway on the floodplains.

However, this opened up the land in a different light, from floodplains and billabongs to rugged stone country.

Interpretive signs and educational and easy-to-understand talks by park guides, made the introduction and discovery of this ancient culture and the diverse landscape enthralling.

Seasons dictate different attractions, with some closed by flooding during the tropical summer. At the south entrance to the park is the Gaymarr Interpretive Centre at Mary River Roadhouse, where you can purchase park passes. I recommend a visit to the informative Bowali Visitor Centre which is only a short drive from Jabiru, a small township in the middle of the park where you can buy fuel and limited supplies.

It has a hotel, shopping centre

(small), school, pool, bakery, caravan park and lodge and a small airport.

Tourism is the main source of income but Jabiru once serviced the nearby Ranger uranium mine which is totally separate from Kakadu National Park. The open cut mining finished at Ranger in late 2012.

Obviously, due to huge crocodile populations, swimming in the waterways is a bad idea. Signs constantly warn “Don’t risk your life – don’t swim”. Cahills Crossing is at East Alligator Creek where you cross over to Arnhem Land.

From a viewing platform you can see many crocodiles at high tide vigorously swimming across the crossing which again alerts you to the size and power of these ancient creatures that have remained unchanged for 200 million years.

Out of respect, no alcohol can be taken on any of the sacred sites/ walking tracks but you will need to

Enjoy a naturally refreshing escape

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carry lots of water. The camping grounds have excellent modern and clean amenities including hot showers.

Most camp sites at Merl campground are individual.

A sign at one of the stops reads: “Management and staff have no control over the weather, mosquitoes, flies, frogs, cane toads, geckos and all other bugs and insects...”

Rock art sites at Ubirr, Burrunguy (Nourlangie Rock) and Nanguluwur are internationally recognised.

Many stories connected to Aboriginal rock drawings are highly complex and linked to other stories.

Certainly the free ranger activities (included in your park entry pass) help visitors understand what the Manilagarr clan is sharing.

For example some of the programs which run morning, afternoon and on dusk are: “A home through the ages” in the main art gallery, “Creation and Kinship” the Rainbow Serpent area, and “Stories on Stone” at Namarrkan Sisters arena.

One of the signs has the best comment: “Pay attention to stories, get the feeling of peacefulness so that when you leave Ubirr, you will have learnt something. By Jacob Nayinggul, Manilagarr clan.”

Every Australian should visit Kakadu, a unique opportunity to connect with aboriginal culture. Those who say Kakadon’t have not opened up to the essence of this ancient land.

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Walk the Mile in my shoes History abounds, much of it gruesome, along with good food and wine, as RUSSELL HUNTER spends a day exploring Edinburgh’s famous Royal Mile.

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dinburgh – the Athens of the North – has a perfectly serviceable airport. Turnhouse has links to Abu Dhabi and Dubai and on to Australia.

But by far the best way to arrive is by train at the world’s only railway station named after a novel – Waverley. The impressive memorial to its author, Sir Walter Scott, stands conveniently on Princes Street.

We emerge at the Market St entrance directly opposite the art gallery – but a few paces away stands the entrance to The Scotsman steps, named for what was once one of the world’s great newspapers. The steps are each of different hued marble from various parts of the globe.

It’s a stiff climb but worth the effort as the final landing opens to Northbridge in time to consider breakfast options. Hadrian’s brasserie, a wee shoppie proudly advertises its “full Scottish breakfast” which seems to be much the same as the English version with the added temptation of black pudding and haggis.

View down the historic Royal Mile

Fortified against the icy blast that scours the city seemingly at all times of the year, we begin a walk down Northbridge and quickly intersect High St. Now we’re on “the Mile”, stepping through history. Turning left, we’re headed towards the palace of Holyrood, official home to Scottish monarchs and their British successors for six centuries or so.

Ignore the tartan tatt shops along the way to discover Aitchiesons, possibly the last remaining independent bottler of wines and spirits in the land.

Next is John Knox House. Built in 1490, its association with the fire and brimstone preacher so pivotal in the blood-soaked Scottish Reformation is tenuous. Knox may have lodged here at some stage in the 1580s but he lived not far away, a few yards up High St, at Warriston Close. He certainly didn’t have far to travel for his debates with Queen Mary on the true religion while she was still in possession of her head.

Knox would have taken a very jaundiced view of today’s Royal Mile with its countless tourist traps and bars. It’s not too early for a cup of mulled wine (to keep out the cold) at the World’s End. This old pub gets its name from its location at one of the gates of the early mediaeval city which for the city folk of the time marked the end of the known world. All that remains are brass cobbles on the High St marking where the gate stood. The pub occupies the intersection of High St and St Mary St where a small section of the original city wall can still be seen.

Crossing St Mary St, we’re now in

the Canongate which shouldn’t be confused with the World’s End gate. In this case the word “gate” appears to be a reference to “gait” or walk rather than any entry or exit.

It’s downhill now as we pass the old tollbooth on the left and dodge the hot air emanating from the National Parliament on the right.

And suddenly, or so it seems, here’s Holyrood. The end of The Royal Mile.

Not nearly as flash as Buck House, it has an older dignity.

It’s built around the ruins of the 12th century Holyrood Abbey at the other end of the Mile from the scowling castle. See if you can be persuaded that the stains on the wooden floor of the room which were Queen Mary’s quarters, are the blood of David Rizzio, her private secretary dragged from her presence and stabbed to death by a bunch of jealous nobles. Get a feel for a more brutal age. Or just amble around.

It’s easy to be stunned by Holyrood.

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Launching directly from the ship’s fold-out watersports marina, the excursions give guests the rare opportunity to explore Antarctica’s exceptional scenery and wildlife close up and at sea level.

Seabourn guests can paddle amid glistening white-blue icebergs, past penguins, curious seals and other wildlife in specially designed cold climate dry suits.

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Perfect time to discover peaceful Fiji Tourism was left reeling after cyclone Winston, but as DOT WHITTINGTON reports, there are many good reasons to book your flight right now.

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ULA. If you hear it once, you will hear it a thousand times – and that’s just in one day – but the warmth of the greeting is merely a reflection of the friendly, happy people who make a Fijian break something very special.

It seems to be an all-purpose greeting, from a dramatic shout of “welcome” to a passing “hello” from a stranger or a “bless you” if you sneeze.

Bula says it all.

And it also says it all about Fiji, for this warm and enthusiastic greeting literally means “life” , implying a wish for good health.

If you want to go the whole way, try “ni sa bula vinaka” which means “wishing you happiness and good health.”

Get the “bula” right though, and that’s about the only language you will need to relax and enjoy a holiday in this group of Pacific islands 2800km north-east of Brisbane.

There are regular flights to Nadi (pronounced Nandy) Fiji’s major international airport, from Brisbane – a 3½ hour journey to a simpler time and place, a world of coral cays, blue seas, swaying palms and huge smiles.

A Fijian holiday is pure relaxation,

remote from the problems of the world with not a whiff of stress or a word about global politics or war. Even the weather - all blue skies – is not worth talking about. Well, it wasn’t until February when it changed with a vengeance and Tropical Cyclone Winston became the strongest and most savage in the island nation’s history, turning the simple life of these placid people upside down.

Worse, the visitors - tourism is a key driver of the Fijian economy stopped coming. Even though 90 per cent of the tourist areas were unaffected, cancellations and a drop in reservations were as devastating as the winds.

For Australians, it means there couldn’t be a better time to travel and help keep the place ticking. There are plenty of fare bargains and Fiji is open for business.

On the Coral Coast southwest of the airport on the main island of Viti Levu, which was one of the first areas to be developed for tourism, is a string of holiday resorts, all self-contained destinations within themselves.

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It’s 75km from the airport, although

A spa and bar on top of the hill overlooks the resort’s beachfront bures.

Perfect harmony from the choir made up of staff from the Outrigger resort.

the journey takes more than an hour as the road makes its way down the coast and through villages, giving an idea of the lay of the land and the Fijian landscape.

Earlier this year, the Outrigger won a prestigious Deluxe Accommodation award at a presentation ceremony in Fiji and visitors will soon discover why.

There is a big, warm “bula” welcome at the gate and it just gets better from there.

On the edge of a beach, where waters are gentle, there is a choice of beachfront, plantation and ocean breeze bures, each in traditional style blending into the village landscape.

Enter this world and cares disappear. While there is a huge resort swimming pool for families, there is also a big adults-only pool area, a brilliant spot for those who want to read and quietly sip their cocktail.

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The resort has a firewalking arena, fitness centre, tennis courts and golf driving range, bars, a range of restaurants, a huge breakfast buffet and all the other features expected of a resort holiday but above all, it has the people, Fijians who are always singing and greet guests as their new friends.

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BOOK REVIEW

ELIZABETH PASCOE

Opening the book I realised I did not know very much about Pakistan - a country with a history of political turmoil and the rise of the Taliban. I was about to be enlightened – a loving mother, two young sons, a father who believes his daughter has a right to be educated and who owns a school for both girls and boys. In 2007 the Taliban swept into power and mayhem ensued. The army ousted the terrrorists in 2009, and the following year a devastating flood in Swat killed 2000 people.

Then came a normal day, sitting in the bus with two other girls, when a chap with a motorbike helmet beckoned the driver to stop, walks down to the girls and Malala is shot.

This is when the story really begins - a triumph of good over evil which cuts across all nationalities and cultures.

TONY HARRINGTON

This book is a great educational and entertaining read. It constantly reminds us of how fortunate we are to live in the “Lucky Country”. Good triumphing over evil is a great theme for a book “... the Taliban arrived in the night just like vampires... they decreed that girls could not get an education and started bombing schools and killing anyone who disagreed.” Malala is shot, survives, forgives and becomes a passionate advocate of education for girls. She won the Nobel Peace prize in 2014 for her humanitarian work. “There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen.

There is a third power stronger than both, that of women.”

Malala has used two of these powers to great effect for girls and women in the Muslim and third world. Bravo Malala 8/10

BOOK review JOHN KLEINSCHMIDT From birth, her father declared that “Malala would be free as a bird” and his love for his daughter nurtured a passion in her for equality in education. Males were favoured by her Muslim culture and Islamic faith.

Malala’s mother supported her resistance to the dictates of the ruthless and cruel Taliban that sought to deny education and freedoms to girls.

A very young Malala showed exceptional courage in speaking out at local, regional, national and international forums, ultimately paying a heavy personal price for her effectiveness and dedication to the cause.

Not a great read but provides a useful insight into Pakistan and the Taliban.

SHEILA BRYDEN

I AM MALALA

By Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb

When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out.

Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education.

On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was 15, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at pointblank range while riding the bus home from school, and few expected her to survive. Instead, her recovery has taken her from a remote valley in northern Pakistan to the UN in New York.

I Am Malala is the tale of a family uprooted by global terrorism, of the fight for girls’ education, of a father who encouraged his daughter to write and attend school, and of brave parents who have a fierce love for their daughter in a society that prizes sons.

I discovered all of the elements of a great thriller - terrorism, violence, suspense, unexpected twists and turns, an intelligent and determined heroine - and yet I had to stop frequently to remind myself that the story of Malala was real.

The book was co-written by Christina Lamb and there were a few instances that her voice, rather than Malala’s, came through but this did not diminish the sincere message from 16-year-old Malala - education for all, respect everyone’s beliefs and learn to live in peace. Historical references were sometimes confusing but some research helped me understand some of the complexities of that region. This is compulsory reading for high school students and if the pen really is mightier than the sword, it will go a long way in influencing the opinions of others.

JO BOURKE

MARY BARBER Malala is an ordinary teenage girl. She hates getting up in the mornings. Her room is a mess. Yet along with her father, she becomes an international advocate for the education of girls. This is a well-constructed autobiography that gives us an insight into everyday life before and during the rise of the Taliban. The experiences and missed opportunities of her parents play a big part in how Malala is encouraged and supported.

After Malala was shot her family moved to England, where they still live. With so many thousands of displaced persons flooding into Europe in 2015, Malala’s comments about home and homesickness are worth pondering.

I read this book slowly, absorbing the history of the Swat Valley, the struggle to build schools for boys and girls, the fear that the Taliban spread. Inevitably I found myself comparing Malala’s life with the privileged life we have in Australia. I wondered how brave I would have been. The first and ongoing hero in this story is Malala’s father Ziauddin. When Malala was born “he even asked friends to throw dried fruits, sweets and coins into her cradle” a custom usually reserved for baby boys. He instilled in Malala the longing for education and the belief that it was a right for all.

We see Malala in the news today and she is a hero, healthy and beautiful. It is easy to forget the horrifying extent of her injuries, her lengthy rehabilitation and the need for the whole family to live in England away from their beloved Swat Valley. This book would be ideal for high school students.

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PUZZLES

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Form at least one nine letter word from the given letters and as many other words as possible of four or more letters. Each word must contain the letter in the central circle. Simple plurals, formed by adding “s” are not counted as extra words. No prefixes or suffixes. Reference: The Macquarie Concise Dictionary.

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