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s a Baby Boomer I have spent my life knowing that I am part of the great mob, that little I do is original; that little I think and comment on is different to what the greater population is thinking, feeling and commenting on. Well, at least I think that is the case. This month, I hope to find out for sure. Much of the content in Your Time is based on the premise that what I’m finding interesting, the rest of the generation will also find worth reading. I hope so, anyway. But now’s the chance to have your say on what you want to read about, your interests and preferences. The survey at the back of this month’s magazine is designed to learn more about our readers so that we can discover and meet your reader requirements and also

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Volun-tourism ... when you’ve been there and done that When you’ve ticked off the travel bucket list and your feet are still itching to know more about the world, you can join the brigade of volunteers who are heading offshore and really getting under the skin of other nations. BRUCE McMAHON talks to three volun-tourists.

ravel experiences may not always broaden the mind or satisfy a well-travelled soul. For some, there are only so many countries on the to-do list; only so many miniature Eiffel Tower pencil sharpeners to collect; only so many Mai Tais to drink as the sun sets over another tropical pool. Aloha again. And so some Australians spend their well-earned spare time in later years helping out in far-flung corners of the world. Volunteer work in exotic locations is a travel experience that keeps on giving. It’s not for everyone, but here are three Queenslanders who are making a difference far from the first world comforts of home.

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Ross Hazelwood opens a project in Nepal (left) and (above) with Brenda, discovering what life is really all about.

OSS and Brenda Hazelwood first tripped off to Nepal in 1986, excited about a camping trek with a difference. “We’d previously travelled to Europe and Israel, wanted to visit Asia and this sounded like a real adventure,” says Ross. The pair fell in love with the country: the trekking, the mountains and the people. Two years later, the Queenslanders were back, and with a stronger appreciation of Nepal and wanting to get involved. They joined the nascent Nepal Australia Friendship Association and on their third trip, took the first of the association’s funds, distributed with help from Australia’s ambassador in Kathmandu. By 2016, the Hazelwood’s trips to Nepal numbered more than 20. And still counting.

“We could see there was a genuine need (for aid) by those people in remote areas who are mainly subsistence farmers with no way to improve living standards,” Ross explains. “We could see that very low budget assistance, like water pipelines from springs into the villages and schools, could make a difference to their lives and their children’s lives.” From 1986 to 2003, Ross and Brenda travelled to Nepal almost every second year for four to six weeks. Since 2004, and retirement from management positions, they live in-country for five months a year, monitoring Nepalese Friendship Association projects. Aid work includes funding and assisting with health clinics, school classrooms, education sponsorships and children’s homes in remote villages and

schools. Projects, which help some 3000 students and more than 2000 households, range from building classrooms to school toilet repairs and micro hydro plants for electricity. As project co-ordinator, Ross assesses new projects, visiting sites and talking to locals. He advises NAFA on what’s needed and monitors a project’s progress. Brenda has taught craft and English to Nepalese children and makes jewellery, for sale back here to raise extra funds. Each year, the pair lead a group on a trek through the lower Solu Khumba and other districts to monitor these projects. It’s 15 days of walking, carting tents, mattresses, stoves, fuel and food with no roads connecting the villages. “Our personal goal has been to make a difference and to improve the lives of children who wouldn’t have had an opportunity to get a basic education, as well as helping people in remote areas improve their lives,” says Ross. “Our achievements have been to see children complete higher study and obtain work from this. (Plus) the construction of better classrooms in remote area, bringing water pipes to schools, better water supply through villages and improving community standards with solar or water-powered electricity and the reduction of deforestation by the use of fuel-efficient stoves.” Self-funded, Ross and Brenda spend about $12,000 on a five-month stay in Nepal – that covers flights, local travel, accommodation, food and other costs. Donations for NAFA projects can be made at: nafa.org.au/donations continued over>

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EITH Christiansen was an Australian Army engineer before heading off to work for Brisbane-based consulting engineers GHD. That led him to volunteering to help source fresh water for African villages. Five years ago, Keith was about to retire. “But I didn’t want to drop out. There’s only so many games of cricket and golf, only so much fishing you can do,” he says. He turned to MSABI - Maji Safi kwa Afya Bora Ifakara - or Safe Water for Better Health Ifakara. Founded in 2009 by Australian engineer Dale Young, MSABI helps fight health issues in Tanzania’s Kilombero River by cleaning up water supplies through new wells, water pumps, filter pots, latrines and hygiene education. Keith last worked for GHD on infrastructure engineering ventures in the Asia-Pacific region, including post-tsunami reconstruction in Indonesia. He also had responsibility for GHD’s

charitable, pro bono support program. “This involved seed funding and ongoing support for MSABI and I saw a great opportunity during retirement to continue involvement with MSABI as a senior advisor and mentor for Dale,” Keith says. In 2013, he headed to Ifakara in Tanzania for hands-on experiences with MSABI’s self-help program, developing local capability and capacity for sustainable water supplies and sanitation industries. “When you visit a village that has benefited from an MSABI well over a few years the feedback from the village elders is about how the children are not getting sick,” Keith says. “In a part of the world where 200 children out of 1000 don’t make it to their fifth birthday, that feedback gives a lasting impression.” Empowering villagers to help themselves was important in Tanzania, just as important as using trail bikes to

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apply western values” to expectations. Remember, some outposts will not have mainstream power, hot water or refrigeration. Chickens may need to be killed and plucked before dinner. Internet access in Tanzania was reasonably good but planning and patience was needed to connect with folk back home. The same may go for transport. He recommends sorting out medical advice and supplies with doctors before take-off. Also check on access to cash. This could be problematic, so take advice on funds before leaving home. At the end of the day, Keith calls himself a humanist and agrees there are some Australians in desperate straits. He argues we have systems to help those people. “Whereas two-thirds of the world don’t have a system, people have nowhere to go. I think I have made a difference to tens of thousands of people with my own time, money and effort,” he says. For more information on MSABI programs, visit msabi.org

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Allen Cox chips in to help unload valuable Medical Santo supplies in Vanuatu. setting up a printing press. The cabinetmaker and his wife have been hands-on with repair work after cyclones, helping out at schools and have helped establish Medical Santo, a clinic for local health and medical emergencies. “Medical Santo was started when we saw a desperate need to provide quality medical services to the people in northern Vanuatu,” he says. “I have three big hospitals within 20 minutes of my (Queensland) house in case I have any serious medical need. “After having too many Vanuatu

friends die over the years from what we in Australia would call non-threatening conditions, Lyn and I with two other families investigated the need for a medical centre in Santo.” Medical Santo is now operating with an operation manager onsite and a volunteer co-ordinator based in Brisbane. Allen and Lyn assist volunteer doctors, nurses, dentists, paramedics and medical educators with health services to locals. Lyn was the first aid worker into remote northern islands after Cyclone

Pam in 2015 and Medical Santo had a six-person emergency medical team on standby, later sent to treat 1200 patients in 10 days on Tanna Island. Today, volunteer medical staff on Santo spend a minimum of two weeks in-house and up to 12 months for those with the time. Non-medical volunteers help with building plus maintenance of the centre and volunteer accommodation. Medical Santo take one to seven volunteers at a time with all asked to pay an accommodation allowance plus any medical registration fees. Depending on the length of stay, it could be a $300 fee plus a $600 flight from Brisbane. Allen says many volunteers have never worked in a low-resource, third world country in the tropics.

“This brings a steep learning curve for most,” he says. “The heat and humidity, damp and mould, earthquakes and cyclones all make life back home just a little bit tame. (But) the huge impact that can be made on a ni-Vanuatu life because a volunteer was willing to give from their abundance and provide quality medical care to those in need cannot be measured.” He says aid work forges friendships that last forever. “I think we are classed as ‘volunteer junkies’. It’s very difficult for us to live a privileged life in Australia when friends in Vanuatu have so little,” he says. For more information visit medicalsanto.com or email Volunteers@medicalsanto.com

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OLDER Australians are being hounded by fundraising calls, with a quarter of the population receiving calls for cash each week. Consumer group Choice has joined forces with the consumer lobby for older Australians, National Seniors, to call for an end to unwanted calls asking for money. National Seniors CEO Dagmar Parsons said members were reporting that the calls were making them anxious and reluctant to answer the phone. The group collected stories from older Australians affected by unwanted calls from charities and found that they were avoiding answering the phone, considering disconnecting the landline and moving in with elderly relatives to protect them from unwanted and aggressive unsolicited phone calls seeking donations. Latest Choice research reveals that 89 per cent of Australians receive at least one unsolicited call in a six-month period; 25 per cent receive unwanted calls from charities on a weekly basis and nearly 5 per cent receive unwanted calls from charities to a landline on a daily basis or more often. “Overwhelmingly, people do not want to be contacted in this way. The frequency and persistence of the nuisance callers basically amounts to

The ACCC will investigate the review policies of sharing economy platforms, as part of an international initiative targeting online reviews and endorsements. Consumer group Choice has welcomed the news after last year finding that 20 longform reviews could be purchased for as little as $31 and 5000 Instagram followers could be tacked on for $75. “With many consumers relying on user reviews to help inform their purchasing decisions, it’s concerning to think that as many as 15 per cent of all online reviews are fake,” Choice’s Tom Godfrey said.

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BEING a retiree can be a noisy business. In my area we have retirees who have to listen to the constant barking of dogs – dogs owned by people who go to work and leave bored, lonely and eventually neurotic, dogs in their backyards, to bark at anything. A leaf. A bird. And at us, the retirees who find that going into the garden and doing a bit of digging, hanging out some clothes, turning on a tap – anything at all – starts up the yap, yap for hours on end. I once timed the noise from my neighbour’s dogs (two small ones) loudly yapping for 14 hours continuously. The owners went to work and then went out. Not until they came home late at night did their dogs stop barking. That was not a one-off. Very often their dogs were barking for 10 hours or more. Of course, I contacted the council, and it was good but now, over a year later, the owners have stopped doing whatever it was they were doing and the dogs are at it again. By the way, it’s not just retirees; it affects anyone who is at home during the day wanting some peace and quiet. J. Fielding

Re Going Private (Your Time, Oct). All hospitals are a business, though no one likes to think of places of healing as such. But they are and, well, many people die there, so hospitals want payment up front. This is not unreasonable. Unfortunately, some insurance companies give approval only during business hours. Tough luck for you should you require urgent admission after 5pm. In addition, as hospitals are business, they are looking for the most efficient way to make money. This means a hospital bed manager (not your doctor) will refuse admission despite a doctor accepting a patient. That’s right, you may be just too much hard work for a hospital. Unfortunately for the public, every doctor must sign non-disclosure contracts with insurance companies. They cannot discuss these with patients or the public. I would respectfully ask those who have had issues to contact their MP as it is the power of the people who can apply pressure to this kind of approach to business, and ultimately medicine. Name and address withheld

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An early lesson In his Good One Grandpa musings, PETER RICHARDSON takes a look over his shoulder.

THE first four pieces in this series have dealt with the lighter side of short-term memory loss (STML), but now I turn to the downside of long-term memory retention. Having been a wordsmith of sorts since 1945, I have a host of memories of the fourth estate; so I thought Your Time readers might like to come with me as I look back over my shoulder. First, I’ll go back to my days as a cadet journalist at the Toowoomba Chronicle. Starting on my 16th birthday I soon found myself on “night rounds”, which involved ringing the police, ambulance and fire brigade. Still wet behind the ears as I was, I took this menial task seriously, hoping to come up with a scoop. My calls yielded little for the first few nights, but when the fire brigade told me of a suburban house fire I was in business.

After going dutifully through the prescribed who, what, where and when routine, I sought more details that would yield a “human interest” piece that might warrant a front-page headline The result was a report that certainly sparked the interest of the chief subeditor, so much so that he read it aloud to my news room colleagues. Result: an uproar of raucous laughter and wisecracks that made me cower behind my typewriter. And the punch line that I innocently wrote? “Mr and Mrs …… were in bed when they smelt rubber burning”. Needless to say this did not appear on the front page – or at all, and the heavily edited report ended up, or rather down, in the lowly “Local & General” column. Even more needless to say, I have for all of my wordsmithing life been wary of double meanings.

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And they said it was no job for a woman ... Former Brisbane lord mayor Sallyanne Atkinson has written her autobiography, and as ANGELA BENSTED discovers, she has an action-packed story to tell and a life peppered with “firsts”.

he juggles a croissant and a takeaway coffee as she ushers me into her South Brisbane apartment, waving at books and magazines piled neatly on a low table and apologising for a mess that doesn’t exist. It’s early, and the 74-year-old is fresh from the ABC studios, with more interviews scheduled before a VIP event that evening. Sallyanne is on the move again, this time promoting her autobiography No Job for a Woman. It’s a story with remarkable detail from a woman who’s never kept a diary. “I’m a hoarder,” she says. “I wouldn’t even dare to show you my garage. I have boxes of files and cuttings.” While most readers will remember her as lord mayor from 1985 to 1991 and her involvement with Australia’s various Olympic Games bids, others might recall a pregnant

Sallyanne with the Duke of Edinburgh. Sallyanne on TV’s Beauty and the Beast during the late 1960s. Sallyanne, a journalist before all else, is a storyteller. A wartime child whose early life played out in colonial Sri Lanka, Sydney and Southport, her autobiography is peppered with earthy anecdotes. There are nursing nuns who smoke and drink beer by the

bedside. There are council meetings departed early to make it to the butcher before 5pm. There are gifts of “Brisbane 92” – wrapped toilet paper for International Olympic Committee delegates holed up in a grim East Berlin hotel. Her gift of the gab is evident in every chapter.

Sallyanne fell into journalism at Brisbane’s Telegraph in 1960 when there were five editions a day and women only worked in Women’s News or on otherwise “suitable” assignments. The vocation honed her people skills and later offered a lifeline to the young mother living in Edinburgh in the late 1960s while her husband completed his surgical training. It also served her well in politics. “It was a huge advantage knowing all the press,” she says. “That’s why I got good media. “I used to go up to The Courier Mail at about eight o’clock at night – it was all pretty quiet up there – and go into the library and get my picture file and steal the bad ones and tear them up,” she says. Together with her husband, Sallyanne joined the Liberal Party not long after the family

returned to Australia in 1970, and she later joined federal member James Killen’s staff as a research assistant. But she says she was always more interested in people than politics. She credits her involvement

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NEWS FEATURE in local government to her insurance salesman father, a role she says involved caring for people and doing it personally. “There’s a great satisfaction in local government that the others don’t get,” she says. “When you fix a pothole or make sure the bus comes on time, it’s very satisfying.” This satisfaction went a long way to compensating for an unhappy marriage. She married surgical trainee Leigh Atkinson in 1964 but they separated briefly during her time as lord mayor and eventually parted ways permanently in 1994. “Leigh regarded my being in city hall as like tennis or bridge,” she says. “I felt unloved in my marriage and unappreciated. “Looking back now I can understand it more,” she says. “Leigh was a neurosurgeon which is very draining. And he was a neurosurgeon at the Mater (where) aged nuns would rise to their feet and say ‘yes doctor’. “When I went into politics I never thought I’d be good enough for lord mayor but when I went in and started

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Office with a view in Paris. making speeches, people were appreciative,” she says. “It was nice.” Sallyanne’s story is peppered with firsts: first in her family to attend university, first female lord mayor of Brisbane and Australia’s first female Senior Trade Commissioner in Europe. She’s rubbed shoulders with popes and royalty and navigated boardrooms with Australia’s political, business and academic elite. She’s raised five children –

Nicola, Damien, Eloise, Genevieve and Stephanie – and revels in being a grandmother to 14 more. But like many successful people, scratch the veneer and you find skeletons, tragedies, frailties and uncertainties. Sallyanne endured the death of a child sibling and, years later, a grandchild. She has struggled with depression, first as a new mother and more recently on turning 65. She also writes of her painful disengagement with the Catholic church following “mediaeval” annulment proceedings. But the most confronting memory is served up in the opening chapter. When travelling with her family from Sri Lanka to Ireland on a troop ship after the war as a three-year-old, Sallyanne recalls being in a cabin with a naked man with jellybeans in her hand. She later complained to her mother that he “hurt my bottom”. It’s an unsettling story and one she hadn’t shared with her

It was an attitude which dogged her for many years. “When I ran (for council) I was criticised for taking a job from a man,” she says. “My mother used to say ‘your children will end up drug addicts or criminals’.” Today, as she glances across the river from her living room so close to the city she has championed across the globe for decades, she can almost lean out to give it a spit and polish, she shrugs and says “they seem to be very well adjusted”.

family before writing the book. “It was never something I ever talked about. But just after I got married and knew what sex was I thought ‘that’s a very unusual thing for a girl to dream’,” she says. She doesn’t dwell on the episode, forgiving her parents’ inaction given the times and their difficult family circumstances. Sallyanne’s practical nature is a recurring theme, like her decision to become a Catholic so she could marry in the church. “It seemed to me for a Catholic the church is more important than it is for an Anglican,” she says. “It was much easier for me to convert and it wasn’t a big deal.” Later, Sallyanne adopted the same sanguine approach with the State Government, never objecting to minister Russ Hinze calling her “girlie” or “pet” for practical reasons. “Taking offence at words would have been silly,” she says. Her grandfather first declared “that’s no job for a woman” when he learned a young Sallyanne was working as a journalist.

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WATCH YOUR LANGUAGE

And that’s how it all began The English language has deep roots, as DAVID PARMITER explains in a quick journey through its history.

irst, let me make it clear that I am English. My family tree dates back to 1594, the time of Queen Elizabeth I, so I’m a true blue Pommie. But as I like to say to my Aussie friends, “at least there are no stripes on my back”. I was one of the last of the £10 Poms in 1968. If you go back 2000 years, the first people living in what we now call the British Isles were the Brits and Celts in the south and the Picts and the Scots in the north. They were all wild and woolly woad-painted warriors; savages all. They invented football! And that’s what the Romans faced when they first invaded the place in 54BC. They had sacked the Gauls in France and the Goths and Visigoths in Germany and central Europe; and now they faced the ferocity of Boadicea and the tribes of the Iceni in Norfolk, and the Celts, Picts and Scots. The Roman legions pushed west and north to expand their Empire to encompass in time, the whole of Europe. That’s in the time of Octavian, 43AD. So the first interbreeding occurred,

between the natives and the invading soldiers, the Romans, who deserted from the legions in droves rather than march all the way back to Rome. For the next 400 years, generations of English people were Celtic-Romans or, if you like, Romano-Celts. The next lot of invaders were the Angles, Saxons and Jutes from the region we now know as Germany, Holland and lower Denmark. That was in the 500s AD. Later, came the Norsemen and the Danes and in 850AD the Viking Empire controlled Western Europe. By the 8th and 9th centuries, the English map was chopped up into four distinct regions. The Angles and Saxons had settled in the east, south and west; the Danes had grabbed the north-east and the rest of the middle bit; and the Celts, Picts and Scots were driven back into the western and northern fringes. That’s today’s Cornwall, Wales and Scotland. The next invasion came in 1066 when the famous Battle of Hastings brought William and his Norman knights across the Channel to conquer and settle. For the next 400 years England had three languages in daily use – Norman

French for the nobility and the law, Latin for the clergy and science and Old English for the common people. By the time of Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales around 1400, the English language was a meld of the Celtic and Saxon words of Old English with the Romance words of Old French, which of course derived from colloquial (or vulgar) Latin. The period from about 1200-1400 saw the emergence of what we now call Middle English. With the advent of printing (Gutenberg and Caxton) the language became regularised in both spelling and syntax, and reading and regular writing began. The next invasion was peaceful and came about during the Renaissance. The leisured nobility travelled extensively through Europe and western Asia, and brought home a plethora of exotic words that in time became absorbed into the English language. So, late in the reign of Elizabeth I, we find the emergence of what we call Modern English, which is really an amalgam of all the older languages. Through the Age of Exploration,

seafarers such as Drake and Raleigh brought home new words such as “tea”, “potato”, “tobacco” and most of our herbs and spices. In Victorian times in the late 19th century, the new disciplines of linguistics, philology, phonetics and comparative language studies developed in the universities. Authorities such as Otto Jespersen, Eric Partridge and the Dutch academic Emil Zandvoort began to systematise and define the English language and explain its long metamorphosis over 2000 years since the days of the original Brits and Celts. Today, many English people regard their language and culture as unique and superior to those of other peoples - but the truth is that English is mongrel of a language. Just ask the French.

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OUR PEOPLE

Ken answers the call of his art Age is no barrier to achievement, with the 55+ group still making waves in every field, from sports and business to the cultural fields. Artist KEN STUBBLETY is among them. He tells his story to DOT WHITTINGTON.

t 63, Ken Stubblety is still painting and still using his art as a form of social commentary. It’s not something that is ever going to leave him; it has been a passion since he was five years old and it’s in his blood. But he also recognised he had to earn a living and his art wasn’t going to always pay the bills. Then his “road to Damascus” moment came in 1990. “I had been working as an orthopaedic technician at Greenslopes for 20 years, then one day I met an older man lying in hospital. “He had spent his life working on the council buses and he said to me ‘I’ve broken my leg, I’ve got cancer, my wife has died and I’ve got nowhere to go’. “That was my wakeup call. I decided to take my chances and get out and live.” Ken quit his job, went backpacking for the best part of a year and returned to dedicate himself to his art fulltime. It was a risk as the life of an artist is tough more than privileged, without any guarantee of where the next dollar might be coming from. He settled on Stradbroke Island to

Ken Stubblety with some of his work with is varied but always colourful and a sample of his “zooist” style. work as a painter and sculptor and welcomed visitors and international tourists to his studio. It was here that he developed his own movement, which he calls “zooism”, a name coined by the local mayor when opening one of Ken’s exhibitions in the ’90s.

“Zooism is about releasing inner inhibitions and using colour and content to tell a story,” he said. “I paint about political stuff, social commentary and what’s going on, but it’s always whimsical.” He says his style is still developing

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Buying a phone? Now there’s a plan It’s all about the upsell, which BRIAN ROBERTSON discovers, is why so many people spend so much time on their phone.

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’d like to buy an iPhone please,” says Dave, 80 years young. “Yes sir, certainly sir,” the salesman replied. “Got a preference for a plan?” “No, no you don’t understand. I just want a phone.” “But if you buy a plan sir, the phone will cost you less than $400.” “How can that be? Apple’s a company that maintains full price at every turn. They cost about $1000 I believe. This is the iPhone 6 we are talking about, right? I don’t think Apple will be dropping the price. No way.” “We can let you have it at a huge discount sir because we’re a generous company sir.” Dave is taken aback. “Is that right? I’m amazed.” “Yes sir, $24 per month over the two-year period of your plan and your phone costs you only $384, saving over $600. You need a plan but then everyone needs plan. “We are selling this phone with a plan that gives you 1000 free calls. It gives you a very cheap phone over a 24-month period. We’ll sign you up now sir.” At this point, Dave is confused and somewhat embarrassed. He doesn’t know 1000 people or anyone else he might want to phone more than once a month. He lets the kids phone him now! And why didn’t he know about this way to buy a phone? “Well, yes, since you put it like that, I suppose so.” “Right we’ll fix you up immediately sir. Name? Date of birth? Medicare number? Credit card number? Licence number? Are they your own teeth?” “Pardon?” “I said underneath, sign underneath, here. Thanks and now that you’ve signed the contract you own a new iPhone. Congratulations sir.” And the questions persisted as the phone was set up. Meanwhile, at the back of Dave’s mind there was a nagging doubt as the salesman kept talking. What was it he’d just signed for, a phone that only cost him $400 –but what about the plan? “Excuse me, just what does the plan cost again that makes the phone so cheap?” “$70 per month sir, plus the cost of the phone for which we charge only $16 per month, so a total of $86 per month over the 24-month life of the plan.” And now, despite the insistent questioning, Dave is also doing a little mental arithmetic. He is elderly and confused but the benefit of age is that he can count without a calculator. “Okay its $86 x 24, (let’s break it down) 86 x 10 = 860, double it = 1720. Okay and

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add the 4 x 86 = 344, equals the grand total of $2064.” “ Now just wait, can we stop there for a second?” Dave said, raising his hand to make the point. The salesman looked up, confidence now oozing. He was sure he had his commission in the bag. “Yes sir, you have a question?” “ Yes, I think I have. If I don’t use this $70 worth of calls I buy every month, I still have to pay the next month’s $70. Is that right?” “That’s right sir.” “Well it seems to me if I don’t use the $70 plan I have just bought a phone, not for the $1000 I was willing to pay, but for more than double that price over a period of two years. I would like to cancel the contract please.” It took a bit of persuading on Dave’s part but determination increases with

age and Dave had plenty of both. Eventually the salesman let the customer go after he had paid $1008 upfront to buy the phone outright on the promise he would return the next day to buy a cheaper pre-paid plan. The following day Dave went back to the shop. “We have an excellent $30 plan which lasts for 28 days. It comes with 500 free calls to anywhere in Australia after 6pm, and if you have money left on your plan you can save it to the next month’s plan by taking out another one before the due date. So you renew again and you are all set for the next 28 days.” “Right, so what happens at the end of the following 28 days if I have not made enough calls to everywhere in Australia to get through all the free calls plus the money on the plan?

“Suddenly, Dave understood why everyone was on the phone everywhere he looked”

“Do I have to buy another $30 worth to save the money I still have left and start again?” “Yes sir. That’s right.” “Now son, do you think I am being insulting if I say that I suspect the company you represent is trying to take advantage of people such as myself who don’t quite understand the ins and outs of your prepaid plans?” And the salesman continued without taking so much as a breath. “Okay, we also have a $70 prepaid yearly plan sir. You pay $70 and if you just make a few calls and play games or surf the web using your own Wi-Fi that is all it costs you for the whole year. You can renew it at the end of the year or anytime before that if you wish.” “I’ll take it, thank you.” “It has been a pleasure doing business with you sir. Have a really nice day.” Suddenly, Dave understood why everyone was on the phone everywhere he looked. You can see them all either fingering or talking on the train, in the doctors’ waiting room, in line at the takeaway, while they are shopping, while driving of course, and would you believe it – in the men’s urinal, while operating onehanded! Can you blame them? They are all trying to beat the system, getting through the money before the end of the month! And another result of this phenomenon is that suddenly everyone has millions of friends who they would never have had, were it not for the phone plans. You’re calling the house painter because he left his card. You don’t want to get to know him but you must use up all these free calls. Aunty May who moved to Broome in Western Australia (thank God) has not heard from you in 10 years but she is delighted that you are now in touch. You’d forgotten what a bore she really was and now you can confirm that this has not changed. Unfortunately, you are also getting a dozen Bugs from Broome as a present in a week or so but you are not sure if she or you will be paying for the express airfreight. But look at it this way; it will probably use up a few free phone calls. For more of Brian’s stories, visit booksbybrian.com.au

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FASHION

Lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer are here again With the days heating up, KAY McMAHON has the wardrobe tips as you start peeling off some layers and preparing for the summer ahead.

s Queenslanders, most of us look forward to the halcyon summer days, lazing by the pool or the beach and perhaps sneaking a cold, sparkling beverage as the sun sets or at one of the many family or holiday events that infiltrate calendars in November. But for many, it is with trepidation that we begin the sometimes painful process of packing away the winter woollies and deciding what to add for summer in cool and credible Boomer style. So it was with great delight that on a recent trip to Los Angeles and a visit to one of my favourite stores, Anthropologie, I discovered my new fashion bible, The Cool Factor: A Guide to Achieving Effortless Style, with Secrets from the Women Who Have it. While the author, Andrea Linett, has compiled the book for an international audience, with some garment declarations for climates much colder than ours,

she has not been trenddriven nor ageist and acknowledges that women over 50 can still have what it takes in the fashion stakes. “Cool” is the mantra, not trendy. So I am happy to summarise Linett’s “10 rules to live by” with my Boomer thoughts on revamping a summer wardrobe

thrown into the fashion mix. Rule No. 1: Don’t settle on just OK or you’ll have a whole closetful of just OKs. This rings true especially for Boomers. How many times have we panicked when we couldn’t find the exact right length dress but bought one anyway because we thought we could workshop it – but never do? Rule No. 2: Throw out things that don’t speak to you. Your family will definitely thank you ffor this as they help you pack up ffor downsizing. Rule No. 3: Don’t fantasy sshop. Oh, how many times have I wanted to re-live my youth with w tthe new ’70s trend in fast ffashion. Rule No. 4: Don’t buy ssomething just because it’s on ssale. Yep, even I get carried away when it’s a couture label that I normally couldn’t afford. Rule No. 5: If you buy something trendy, hang on to it for a year before wearing it. Maybe some of the trend-driven pieces we buy need to sit for a

while so we don’t compete with the Millennials. Bring it out when it looks new again. Rule No. 6: Don’t worry about dressing your age. Sometimes those pieces you used to wear as a 30-year-old suddenly make you look like mutton dressed up as lamb. Be yourself, but at age 55 plus, mini-skirts never look as good with varicose veins. Rule No. 7: Shop your closet. Over years of working in the fashion industry I have been loath to throw many of my

favourite (and sometimes quite expensive) garments. And how many times have I delved back into corners of my wardrobe to re-invent my look with pieces the younger generation now call “vintage” and also give me a cool vibe. Rule No. 8: Always keep them guessing. As you get older you know what looks good on you and what doesn’t. Go with this instinct and never be afraid to mix it up a bit. Matchy-matchy or trendy can make you invisible. Rule No. 9: Find your signature piece. If you love wearing certain things, then wear them often for your confidence and make them the mainstay of your personal style. Everyone applauds a woman who is happy in her own body and exudes an intelligence and warmth when she enters a room. Rule No. 10: Most of all, BE YOURSELF. Enough said. For Styleboomer answers and ideas email styleboomer@ gmail.com or follow @ styleboomer

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aking the move from New Zealand in 1991 wasn’t a huge decision for Myles and Bernice Walters, having already built a home in Tewantin in 1989. “We have always loved the Sunshine Coast and when we both retired, Myles from running his own electrical business and me from my civilian job with the New Zealand police force we thought the timing was perfect. Whilst our eldest son and daughter still live in New Zealand we are very lucky to have our youngest son living and working here on the Sunshine Coast”, said Bernice. Both Myles and Bernice have a love of sport, in fact they met 53+ years ago on the tennis court. They still enjoy playing tennis along with golf, cycling, fishing and kayaking and can’t wait to move into Palm Lake Resort Cooroy-Noosa to take full advantage of the world class facilities on offer. They are also both Vintage Car

enthusiasts. Myles restored a 1930 Hudson Straight Eight coupe with Bernice doing some of the upholstery and striping on the wooden spoke wheels. Bernice then restored with the help of Myles a 1934 Austin 7 roadster which immigrated with them to Australia. Travel is also a passion for Myles and Bernice, when not enjoying a cruise on the high seas they

“We can’t wait to begin this next phase of our lives“ love caravanning and have travelled over 70,000ks around Australia and plan to do more exploring once they have settled into their lovely new Villa at Palm Lake Resort Cooroy-Noosa. Myles and Bernice had been searching for a Lifestyle Resort in the Noosa shire for some time and were over the moon when they discovered Palm Lake Resort

Cooroy-Noosa was being developed. “We have made many excursions to Cooroy, not only watch the progress of our Villa but also to marvel at everything developing at such a pace, our beautiful Clubhouse will be ready for us to enjoy not long after we move in. We are so excited at the prospect of living in a world class Lifestyle Resort and living in one of the most welcoming, hinterland towns in the Noosa Shire. Cooroy has an abundance of charming boutiques, great shopping, coffee shops, a golf course and nearby is Lake McDonald for kayaking and a perfect place for a picnic. It is also just a short 15 minute drive back to the beautiful Noosa River where we can also enjoy catching up for coffees and going kayaking with our friends from Tewantin” said Myles and Bernice. ‘‘It’s all just so exciting and we can’t wait to begin this next phase of our lives” said Myles.

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GARDENING

Colour your world

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Summer’s coming and GARDENEZI writes it’s time to put some colour into your life by filling window boxes, tubs, pots and containers of all kinds with flowers and foliage.

HERE’S a great tip for getting more out of your azaleas with bigger and brighter flowers. Save banana skins in a bin or paper bag or anywhere they can dry out a bit without attracting flies. In early spring, hack these into small pieces (you can do this earlier if you like and leave them in the bag/bin) and soak in buckets of water at the rate of 6kg to 5 litres of water. The quantities don’t have to be exact, it’s the principle that counts. Leave for 24 hours, then pour into ground around azalea bushes, banana skins and all. Use about half a bucket to each bush. Scuff the skins around the soil a bit, taking care not to damage plant roots. This is a simple, effective and organic way of recycling banana skins and gives your azaleas a potassium boost. Added hint: Mix in wood ash (about 5 cupfuls) per bucket or sulphate of potassium (1 cupful per bucket) for an even better effect.

Impatiens are easy and colourful (left) and (above) even small spaces put on a display.

urs is not the gentlest of climates during the hot season, so you’ll need plants that can cope with heavy downpours alternated with dry periods when the evaporation rate is high. Chances are you will also have pots placed in both sunny and shady spots. Here are some tips for containers: Glazed and plastic pots hold water well but make sure you check them regularly to get rid of excess water. Moisture evaporates faster through unglazed terracotta and these pots are best used for pelargoniums (geraniums), cacti and succulents which need small amounts of water and very good drainage. Bigger containers hold moisture better – small pots dry out fast, especially small, unglazed clay pots. Self-draining pots are best for hanging

Choose plants well able to cope with hot summer conditions and you’ll have lots of colour in life and window boxes because they drain more freely, thus avoiding root rot, and make less mess from water runoff. The best plants for sunny areas are: Dianthus, gazania, pelargoniums (geraniums), calibrachoa, alyssum, scaevola, lobelia, bedding begonia, salvia, dipladenia, mandevilla, allamanda, bougainvillea, cuphea (sun and shade),

crown-of-thorns (Euphorbia millii) and lavender (cut back tips after each flowering to encourage more). For shade: New Guinea impatiens, coleus, golden and variegated pothos, creeping fig (Ficus pumila), variegated ivy, anthurium, caladium, peperomia, red-striped dracaenas, peace lily or spathiphyllum, cat’s tail (Acalypha reptans) and dwarf gardenia. Of course there are plenty of other plants you can use but these have been chosen because they are easy to grow in our summer conditions. Check containers and baskets regularly and if soil is too dry, water immediately. If too wet, cut back watering and drain pot/basket. Mist shade plants daily in hot, dry weather. Feed plants in large pots with controlled-release fertiliser. Use liquid fertiliser as per instructions with small pots and baskets. More useful plant information at gardenezi.com

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TECHNOLOGY

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Cleaning up an old question

Give up trying and let technology take control of your photos, writes the iPad man COLIN DUNKERLEY.

“What is the D-drive for?” is a common question for technician NATHAN WELLINGTON. Here’s his answer.

f you have owned a digital camera for a while, the chances are you have a lot more average photos sitting about than you care to admit. The digital camera removed the limits of film and processing costs that we grew up with, as there were only so many photos to be taken on a roll of film. Then the digital camera came along and with it, the freedom to take as many photos as you wanted. So now you click the shutter button multiple times hoping to capture the one perfect photo, with the idea to later delete the extras. The only thing is, you haven’t gotten around to that part, have you? On top of that, these digital photos are stored on a computer and you just clicked the import button that magically appeared on the screen when you plugged in your camera. Somehow they ended up in “My Pictures” but with all strange folder names. These photos you were so proud of are rarely looked at, as you want to get rid of the blurred and duplicated versions before putting them on display. This job has now become a burden. So what is the solution? How can we bring enjoyment back to

sharing photos? The answer, strangely, comes from the technology itself. During the past year we have seen both Google and Apple deliver the tools needed to help sort out photos and the great news is, we barely need to do anything ourselves to take advantage of it. Advances in photography software are so great that they will organise our photos in date order, by the location where the photos were taken, by person using facial recognition and even by what’s in the photo such as a flower, a boat or a dog. To top that off, with most iPads, iPhones or Apple computers, you can use your voice to find them. Simply say, “Show me my photos of Trinity” or “Show me my photos from Fiji” and these devices will display these photos in seconds. This software can also create, with the touch of one button, a short movie from your photos that is smart enough to ignore similar or duplicated photos – even change the photos to the beat. Finally, it seems we can enjoy our photos again! To book in for a FREE demonstration of this incredible software visit iPadLessons.com.au

he C and D drives are generally two large partitions on the one hard drive. The D drive can be found on most laptops and desktops, put there by the manufacturer as a recovery drive. Each manufacturer has developed their own recovery software, because they don’t provide recovery disks when you buy a new computer anymore. So the recovery drive is there to protect your computer from losing everything; that way you can reset your computer back to factory settings if needed. This is helpful if there are issues with your system files or a major corruption on your computer that renders it so bad it is best to just start again. I’ve found there is seldom rhyme or reason as to how much space is allocated

your digital closet and clean it out. Then perform a disk clean up. If you are running Windows 10, search for Disk Clean up from the taskbar and select it from the list results. Under Files to delete, select the file types to get rid of. Select OK. If you need to free up more space, you can also delete system files. In Disk clean up, select Clean up system files. Select the file types to get rid of. Select OK. Or you can download a free cleaner like CCleaner and clean up some temporary program files from there. If this still doesn’t do the trick, then change the partition sizes of your C and D drives through your Disk Management tool. This can be found within the control panel under administrative tools, but be

“I’ve found there is seldom rhyme or reason as to how much space is allocated to the C and D drives” to the C drive and the D drive. I have seen C drives with just enough space to fit the system files and a D drive with more space than the Milky Way. If you find that there is no real issue with your space allocation on each, then I would suggest to leave well alone. But if you find that you are running out of space or the computer starts bringing up a warning that you have low disk space, then I would suggest first try giving your computer a cleanout to free up some space. To do this, firstly, go back through

warned! One wrong click and you may delete everything so steer clear if you are a novice. If it gets to that stage, I would suggest getting your technician to come over and move your partitions around and free up some space if needed. I hope this helps clarify a curiosity. If you would like any more information or help regarding your computer you can always call me on 1300 682 817 or email Nathan@ hometechassist.com.au.

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YOUR WILL

The whole new world of digital assets With the rise of the information age, people are now dying and leaving many digital assets of high sentimental and monetary value, writes DION McCURDY.

he term digital asset is relatively new in succession law and there is no commonly agreed definition. In Australia, no legislation defines it and the Courts have offered no clear direction. A digital asset is any right or interest in data held in a digital format, whether that be audio, codes, images, information, videos or text. This includes online data, such as that found on collaborative platforms such as Uber and AirBnB, communication service such as WhatsApp and Skype, content distributors such as YouTube, Instagram, Tumblr, Soundcloud and blogs. There are also dating sites, email, entertainment such as

Spotify, Apple TV, iTunes, Google, NetFlix, Stan and Bigpond) and lottery, gambling and gaming. Then come the health records such as those held by private health insurance and Medicare, loyalty programs such as frequent flyers, and marketplaces, shopping such as Amazon and eBay and payment facilitators such as PayPal. News and newspaper/ magazine subscriptions, professional networking such as LinkedIn, social media such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+, cloud storage such as DropBox and web domains are also part of the package. Digital assets also include offline data held on a storage device such as a CD, DVD, computer, mobile phone, music player, hard drive, tablet, or USB flash drive. Without explicit authority, knowledge and means to access your digital assets, your

to the asset. If you have concerns about how your digital assets will survive you, consider contacting a solicitor for assistance. It’s a good idea to record your asset information in a digital asset register or management plan, to be kept with your will.

executor may not know the extent and value of the assets or deal with them in the way you would have wanted. Additionally, identity fraud is increasingly an issue with the vast amounts of data that is being left online once people have died. Improper use of this data may take a financial and emotional toll on your family.

How these assets are treated after death will depend on the terms and conditions of the purchase, subscription, or service. For each asset, your executor will need to consider what rights or interests survive your death, where the digital asset is stored, how it can be accessed, and whether you had any specific wishes in relation

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RETIREMENT LIVING

Decisions galore in a growing market Retirement living is increasingly about choices, writes EMMA PLASIER

ueensland is home to more than 550 registered retirement villages and over 50s lifestyle resorts. Brisbane has about 120 villages and lots of new seniors living is planned for future development, ranging from independent living to villages with integrated aged care and vertical retirement. Queensland’s retirement industry is booming and growing at a rapid pace. Many large operators are moving to town to build more, creating an abundance of choice for the retiree. There are many village developments under construction and the market is seeing new and innovative models. There are multiple types of retirement living options. The traditional retirement village option incorporates a variety of schemes – freehold, leasehold, loan-licence and company title. The over 50s lifestyle resorts are becoming more popular with younger retirees. Unregistered seniors are living complexes in the normal residential market that target residents over 50. Every village has different payment arrangements. Some villages have exit fees, some offer residents the option of acquiring capital gains, some offer both. Many villages have begun to

introduce flexible payment options that enable retirees to choose how much they pay, based on their personal financial situation. The terminology used in retirement living is different from normal real estate. When you purchase a retirement village unit, terms such as “in-going contribution” are used. If you want to acquire capital gains, it’s called “participating” and when you bring your unit back up to marketable condition when you leave, it’s called “re-instatement”. While this can be confusing at first, there are companies that can assist with understanding the various options to help make supported, informed decisions about the various choices offered. Times are changing with State Government seriously looking at amending the Retirement Villages and Manufactured Home Parks Acts to make the process simpler and more consumer protected. It has proposed a series of recommendations to the Acts that will make retirement living options easier for retirees to understand. There is no doubt the future is looking bright for retirement living and with all the development and growth, it’s becoming a consumer’s market. Visit shineretirement.com.au or call 5474 9572

SPRING RETIREMENT FESTIVAL A HIT RETIREMENT created the best vibe in town when the Lendlease Spring Retirement Festival hit southeast Queensland. Gardening guru Graham Ross opened the festival with sold-out shows on the Sunshine Coast and in Brisbane, bringing his love of all things horticultural to two audiences. More than 1600 people attended 12 festival events from Mackay to the Gold Coast. The talented Melinda Schneider performed her tribute to Doris Day to huge audiences while fans of the late Johnny Cash were dancing in the aisles to Barry Ferrier’s compelling musical, I hear that train a-comin’: The Johnny Cash Story. Audiences sang and danced the night away to hits including Folsom Prison Blues and I Walk the Line, as the show traced the

legend’s life and his famous love for June Carter Cash. Queensland manager of Lendlease’s retirement living business, Mark Criddle, said living in a retirement village could mark the start of a fantastic journey of fun and friendship. “Moving into a village is a time of renewed freedom, because you leave behind the worries of maintaining the family home,” he said. “By the time you’ve moved to a village, you’ve done the

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THIS IS THE LIFE Award winning over 50s developer Halcyon is experiencing a record run of sales at its new Halcyon Glades lifestyle community in Caboolture North. Project Director Marie Cone said the opening of the gated community’s multi-million dollar 5-Star Lifestyle and Recreational Precinct was the catalyst for the recent increase in sales activity. “The community’s expansive recreational facilities is really the icing on the cake for those who are looking to upgrade their lifestyle,” she said. “Caravan and boat storage, gated security and CCTV cameras allows for lock and go

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which is different to the typical retirement model as all capital gain is kept by the home owner or the family. As soon as they saw it, Norm was hooked but Patricia wanted to wait until the perfect house was built – which it was – and so they were both pleased. The rainforest and the setting was the first thing they loved. They had the house they wanted in the location they wanted and they were happy. Asked what they like most about their home, they agree: “initially, the plan and size”. It’s two bedrooms, plus multi-

purpose room, two bathroom, big laundry, spacious open plan kitchen, dining and lounge, with three outdoor living areas and double lock up garage. “And it faces the right way for all seasons, and we can see the rainforest from every window,” they say. Another point which makes a big difference to them is that the roads through Nature’s Edge are normal road width. “Some of the places we

visited were cramped and narrower and you have little room to back out your car,” So is this their last home? “Definitely. Why should we move? It is beautiful, quiet, has lovely breezes, birds and the rainforest,” they say.

and more moving in every week, special interest groups are being formed with over 30 different options to choose from, from arts and craft to Zumba and everything in between. Priced from $361,000$515,000, the latest release of superior energy-rated homes, showcases a range of Halcyon’s favourite designs and introduces the new and affordable double car garage home, the Allara. Cleverly designed and the newest addition to the suite of Halcyon homes it brings to life the best of architectural and design principles.

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was travelling through Canada, fell in love, married, had children and settled on the Sunshine Coast in 2002. Initially, Norm “wasn’t too keen” on moving to an over 50s lifestyle community because he didn’t know what he was getting into. Although they knew they wanted to downsize after 13 years on their half-acre, they didn’t know much about their options. After finding out what they didn’t like, which was exit fees, they then started looking at over 50s developments in the area and found Nature’s Edge,

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available to facilitate all of your care requirements. Our partnership with UQ Health Care ensures you are looked after by the leaders in health services. Additionally, an Aged Care facility, currently in development, will add to the already outstanding facilities. It’s all part of Aveo’s promise to ensure the right level of care is ready for the future.

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HISTORY

Birkdale school celebrates 100 years of education Pioneers spent 30 years pushing for a school and from humble beginnings in a simple marquee on loan from the YMCA, it soon took its place as a valued part of the community. JOHN BULLION has been looking into the past as the school moves into the future.

irkdale state school opened on its present site, on Monday, November 27, 1916, with the first head teacher Edward Paul Rohan and 28 students. The tent had crows ash flooring on 4in by 2in hardwood and two permanent earth closets were constructed. This was supplied after a question of a school for the Birkdale area first arose in 1883. Mr John Woodgate was one of the leaders of the early movement that failed in procuring a school. A second application was lodged in November 1903, by E, McHurich, the Birkdale Railway gatekeeper, advising there were 26 children at Birkdale who walked considerable distances to Wellington Point State School. Late in 1913, a type of Rail Motor Service, the McKeen Car, was introduced to reduce the distance that Birkdale and Thorneside children had to walk to attend school at Wellington Point. A third request was made on July 17, 1914. It acknowledged the free service offered by the McKeen Car, but expressed reservations about the safety of this form of travel because the boys tended to ride on the 2ft wide platform at the top of the

stairs. Minister for Public Instruction Mr Blair, did not view the situation at Birkdale as urgent but agreed to send an inspector to assess. On August 4, 1914, the official application for the establishment of a

school was forwarded. It included a list of some 48 names, 25 of whom were of school age. Inspector Gripp investigated the situation at Birkdale but opposed establishment of a school.

Another application was forwarded on October 26, 1915, listing 31 children of school age. There were 134 farming areas of 3 acres or more within two miles of the proposed school, but only 40 of these were occupied because there was no school. Inspector Gripp this time agreed Birkdale should have a school. Inspector Stoodly from the Works Department visited on November 21, 1916, selected a site for erection of a tent to be used temporarily for school purposes. He also arranged for the delivery of six desks, six forms, a table and chair, press, two hyloplate boards and two easels to be delivered for the school to open on Monday, November 27, 1916 at a cost of 8 shillings and 6 pence for wages and transport. It was to be almost a year before the first Birkdale school building was completed at a cost of £405 on September 11, 1917. The building was a wooden structure of the open air type. measuring 24ft by 16ft with 8ft on two sides and roofed

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HISTORY with iron. The verandas were protected by patent spring roller canvas blinds, which could be regulated, as desired by the teacher, to suit the weather conditions. Seating was provided for 48 pupils. When the school building was completed, the School Committee sought permission from the YMCA to use the marquee as a play shed. Approval was given on November 15, 1917. On February 25, 1919, Miss Lillian Lane was appointed as the first assistant teacher at Birkdale to assist the head teacher, Mr Rohan. Mr Rohan died suddenly on July 14,

1920 and a month later, Mr Davidson was appointed head teacher on August 12, 1920. He retired from Birkdale in December 1948. In 1966, on the 50th anniversary, 320 children were enrolled with a staff of 10 including head teacher, Mr Carmody. As Birkdaleâ€™s enrolment continued to increase during the 1970s, the oval was unable to meet the needs of all children and the Education Department secured a 7acre site across the road in Agnes St as a second school oval. This area has the school pool built in 1987 and multi-purpose courts constructed in 1993.

Lillian Lane, the first assistant teacher

The first heard teacher, Mr Rohan

The McKeen car took children to Wellington Point before Birkdale opened.

By 1991, on the 75th anniversary, 715 children were enrolled and there were 43 staff members including principal, Mr Beecham; deputy principal, Mrs Burnes; and an assistant principal, Mrs Veivers. In 2016, the centenary year, the school has 654 children and a staff of 55, including principal, Mr Gosling and deputy principal, Mrs Barnett who continue the tradition of providing a Century of Excellence in Education at Birkdale State School.

Birkdale State School will celebrate its centenary on Sunday, November 27. The celebration begins at midday. The 1988 time capsule will be opened at 3.30pm followed by cutting the centenary cake by the oldest attending past student and the youngest current present student. It will culminate in a fireworks display at 7.15pm. The school is keen to hear from past students and teachers to join them on this historic occasion. Email birkdalesscentenary@ hotmail.com or call John Bullion 3207 5690.

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HOME OPTIONS

Control the wardrobe that’s bursting at the seams Are you owning your clothes or are they owning you? KAREN HEALY from the Uncluttered Closet offers advice on how to take back control.

et’s face it, the majority of us love fashion. From a young age we experiment with all sorts of styles and trends. The temptation to buy a new outfit is sometimes difficult to resist, especially when we spot a bargain. It doesn’t matter whether we shop at high-end fashion designers or down at the local Vinnie’s store, there’s always something to grab our attention, and at that moment we decide whether to buy it or not. The newly acquired purchase is ready to take home, and we try to squeeze it into an already crammed space. Our wardrobes are literally bursting at the seams. Does this sound familiar? It’s at that moment you promise yourself you’re going to sort through your wardrobe one day. The problem is that day never comes. Suddenly you realise how much time you spend searching through your wardrobe to find something to wear. If you’re anything like the average woman, you’ll spend a whopping 17 minutes a day going through your wardrobe. It’s no wonder you don’t have any spare time! Whether you have just a single door

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or a large walk-in robe, most of us would drool over, you’re going to fill it. It’s inevitable; when we have space we will fill it. For some, looking at your wardrobe can leave you feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, guilty or physically exhausted. These emotions are not uncommon when a wardrobe is bursting at the seams. In fact, it can be quite debilitating to even start getting organised. What’s difficult though, is the ability to look at our clothes without being emotionally attached to them. It’s only when it’s pointed out to you that you can see how clothing represents so many memories. Each item is relevant to a particular time or event in life and that makes it incredibly hard to part with anything. HERE’S SOME TIPS TO GET STARTED: 1. Gather everything together – get all your clothes from wherever you store them: the spare room, draped over chairs, the laundry, and gather them all in one place. The spare bed is a good flat surface to work on. 2. Sort them into piles – place all T-shirts

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in one pile, all jumpers in another and so on. 3. Create a set of guidelines – even clothes have rules, which they must abide by. If they are torn, stained, or need repair, then out they go. If you don’t like the fabric, but like the style, out they go. If they don’t fit quite right, out they go. 4. Keep the best of – if you have a selection of black T-shirts, only keep the best ones. Apply this rule to other items if you have a large selection. 5. Handle everything only once – as soon as you’ve made a decision either hang/ fold it or place it in a plastic bag to give away. 6. Give away your don’t wants – if you’ve made the decision that you don’t want it, then don’t keep it.

Fill a plastic bag with the don’t wants and take it to your local charity. What you don’t want, someone else will. If you can’t manage decluttering on your own or you struggle making decisions, get a professional organiser to help. Professional organisers offer a range of services including decluttering, downsizing for seniors, home and office organising as well as packing and unpacking your home for moving. Karen Healy is an accredited expert professional organiser with the Australasian Association of Professional Organisers. Visit unclutteredcloset.com. au or phone 0418 725 307.

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MOTORING

Suzuki’s new Baleno is another little beauty Suzuki has reigned over the small car world for many years and there’s more to come, writes BRUCE McMAHON

emember the diminutive Mighty Boy ute? The Carry van? The baby LJ 50 Jimny? And then there’s always the Swift, still serving us well as a compact runabout in congested city streets and still testament to the Japanese carmaker’s skills in producing liveable machines for the light car segment, the one where the smallest of cars are grouped. Now comes the 2016 Suzuki Baleno, wearing a badge resurrected from the 1990s but an all-new hatchback that blurs the lines between the light car segment and small hatchback segment. The new five-door car remains a compact vehicle at just under 4m long. It’s a bit bigger than a Swift and clever interior packaging offers decent cabin dimensions. So, the Suzuki Baleno, with good cabin width plus great rear seat and boot space, can compete with the likes of the

BEFORE

infotainment screen with ApplePay and smartphone interfaces and navigation and rear view camera, plus hill hold on automatic versions. Then there’s the opportunity with the GLX version to

popular Mazda 3 and Hyundai i30 on interior space. There are three versions, starting at a $16,990 driveaway price for the 1.4 litre GL with five-speed manual gearbox. A GL with auto transmission is $17,990 driveaway and the hero car – the turbocharged 1 litre GLX Baleno with six-speed auto and a few extra bits – is priced at $22,990 driveaway. All arrive in a tidy hatchback body style that won’t

frighten the neighbours. It looks sharpest in Fire Red and sitting on the GLX’s 16-inch alloy wheels. The cabins are clever and the fitments are fine. There’s not quite the quality to plastics as those found in the likes of the Mazda 3. Base Balenos lack for little. Standard gear includes seven airbags, automatic headlights, cruise control and electric windows all round, an

“The machine for those looking for a cheap and cheerful car to run around town” customise dashboard read-outs, checking things such as engine power and torque outputs or even G-forces. Maybe there won’t be a big call for the G-forces read-out. The Baleno handles quite well for this class of machine. It’s quick and rides well too, but it’s no Formula One car. The turbo Baleno, the one with the lot, doesn’t have oodles

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NEWS

Community treasure a trove of history

etiree Jan Bird is nudging 80, and remains busy working as a volunteer in her community, ensuring stories of our colonial past are shared and preserved. Jan works with a dedicated team of volunteers preserving the magnificent 154-year old Ormiston House and showcasing its beauty for more than 14,000 tourists and local residents who visit the estate each year. As chairman of the Ormiston House Advisers and Friends Committee, Jan, (pictured) a resident of Cleveland Manor retirement village, remains active in the

wider community where she lives. “In just a few months I will be four score years,” she says. “I am not old. I am just getting older.” Jan has been volunteering for years and is passionate about sharing the historical significance of Ormiston House. Established in the 19th century, it is an elegant colonial-style building with beautiful gardens and commanding bay views. In 1967, a group of volunteers formed the Ormiston House Restoration Association to restore and maintain the heritage-listed building and it is now one of the most prominent examples of colonial architecture in Queensland. “We have a terrific group of enthusiastic volunteers who come from all walks of life,” Jan says. “It’s a challenging project but very rewarding and new volunteers are always very welcome. “We want to ensure that this historical gem will remain intact for future generations to enjoy and as a reminder of a bygone era.” Ormiston House is open every Sunday (except Christmas and Easter) from noon to 4pm. Devonshire tea is served on the verandah or take a picnic and enjoy the garden setting with stunning views of Moreton Bay. Visit ormistonhouse.org.au to find out more or to become a volunteer.

STUDY FINDS ASSOCIATION BETWEEN STRESS AND ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE New research has found a possible association between the stress hormone cortisol and the risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease. Cortisol is a hormone that is naturally produced by the body in response to stress. Researchers from ECU’s School of Medical and Health Sciences measured the cortisol and memory function of 416 healthy adults over six years. They also scanned the brains of the participants to measure their levels of the plaque Amyloid Beta which is closely associated with the development of Alzheimer’s disease. The researchers found that among adults with high levels of Aß in their brain, those with higher levels of cortisol experienced a greater rate of memory decline than those with low levels of cortisol. Lead researcher Associate Professor Simon Laws said the results might suggest that high levels of cortisol may accelerate the cognitive decline in 32 YOUR TIME MAGAZINE / November 2016

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preclinical Alzheimer’s disease (before clinical symptoms begin to show). “These findings, when taken together with other substances in the blood, may pave the way for us to be able to better predict cognitive decline in preclinical Alzheimer’s patients,” he said. Prof Laws said that while the study didn’t establish a direct link between stress and Alzheimer’s disease, reducing stress was still a good idea. “Alzheimer’s disease is extremely complicated so it’s perhaps not as simple as reducing cortisol to lower your chances of developing it,” he said. “What this research does suggest is that this may very well be another health benefit, in addition to other well proven health benefits that result from minimising stress in your life. “Stress is hard to avoid but taking time out with your loved ones, relaxing with a good book or taking up a hobby are all good ways to reduce your levels of stress and reach a good work-life balance,” Prof Laws said.

DEMENTIA SET TO BECOME LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH Dementia death rates continue to rise as the population ages, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). New figures reveal that dementia is now close to replacing heart disease as Australia’s leading cause of death since the early part of the 20th century. Statistics for 2015 show there were 159,052 deaths in Australia, with the standardised death rate remaining low at 5.5 deaths per 1000 people. James Eynstone-Hinkins, ABS Director of Health and Vital Statistics, said that over time, the decline in mortality rates and increase in life expectancy were contributing to the ageing of Australia’s population. “Population projections indicate that the number of people aged 80 and over will double in the next 20 years,” he said. “Understanding and managing diseases of the elderly is critical as people live longer lives. Death rates from dementia have continued to increase, while those from heart disease and stroke

have steadily declined and if these trends continue, we can expect to see dementia become our leading cause of death within the next few years.” Heart disease remains the leading cause of death for both males and females, with dementia, strokes, lung cancer and chronic respiratory conditions all in the top five. Diabetes is Australia’s sixth leading cause of death, accounting for 2.9 per cent of all deaths in 2015. There are more than a million Australians living with diabetes, and it was considered to be a contributory factor in more than 10 per cent of deaths in 2015. Cancers accounted for almost 30 per cent of Australian deaths. Lung cancer accounts for the most cancer, making it the second leading cause of death for males and fourth leading cause overall. Suicide is the leading cause of death among those aged 15-44 and remains the leading cause of premature mortality.

ENDEAVOUR LAYS DOWN INCLUSIVITY CHALLENGE Endeavour Foundation has said that the roll-out of the National Disability Insurance Scheme – a fundamental overhaul of the disability sector – must be a catalyst for change for the people and organisations of Queensland. Endeavour Foundation Moreton area committee chairman Garry Bates, said everyone had a part to play in building a community and a nation that respected difference in people. “True and lasting change must come from the grassroots. Each and every one of us can play a part in building a more inclusive and disability friendly community, by removing barriers and changing the way we think, talk and act about people with disabilities,” he said. “At home, over a coffee, at the pub, in church or at work there are opportunities to build acceptance and challenge discrimination. The issue has particular resonance for Garry, who has great pride in the achievements of his sister, Tessa who is the longest-serving supported employee at her Endeavour Foundation workplace and loves it. She also is a proud holder of a Toast Masters Certificate. To find out more about Endeavour Foundation, visit endeavour.com.au

SURVEY AN EYE-OPENER The National Eye Health Survey report on the prevalence and causes of vision impairment and blindness around the nation has revealed that the main causes of blindness and visual impairment are uncorrected refractive error, cataract, age-related macular degeneration, and diabetic retinopathy. The survey involved a series of eye tests on about 5000 Australian in 30 areas. Participants tested were nonIndigenous Australians 50 years and older and adult Indigenous Australians 40 years and over.

The data is used to inform he government on future policy directions. “Certain population groups are at particular risk of vision impairment and blindness including Indigenous and Torres Strait Islander people, older people, those with a family history of eye disease and people with diabetes,” Assistant Minister for Rural Health Dr David Gillespie said. A new Medicare Benefits item for the screening of diabetic retinopathy using retinal cameras will be introduced. Visit vision2020australia.org.au

TELL US ABOUT IT If you have an issue that is bothering you, a story to share or suggestions and ideas about what you’d like to read in Your Time, then we’d like to hear from you. Look for our survey on pages 51 and 52 this month and have your say in the magazine that’s all about you. It’s Your Time.

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HEALTH

Keep an eye on the brain fuel gauge It’s the end of the day and it’s hard to feel motivated to do anything and that, MICHELLE LOCH explains, is because your brain is running on empty.

ou know how it feels at the end of the day when you tend to avoid some of those projects you should really be doing or decide to put it all off until tomorrow. It’s the best time for someone to talk you into something that you didn’t want to do as the ability to stand strong seems to disappear. That feeling is your brain getting near to an empty

fuel tank! Your brain runs on a fuel of glucose and oxygen. That fuel needs to be replenished on a regular basis with rest, exercise, nutrition and sleep. When you have a good supply of fuel, you can use your brain in a more controlled way. When your supply dwindles (and this happens quickly), you have less control over the way your brain responds to any given situation. Different parts of your brain and different brain activities use your brain fuel with different intensity. For example, learning your times table when you are eight years old is an energy-intensive activity, while recalling your times table at age 20 uses much less brain fuel.

It’s a bit like driving a car along the highway. When you want to accelerate, you press the accelerator and use more fuel. Once you have reach your desired speed and begin coasting, fuel consumption drops significantly. Overcoming whatever inertia is in the way, such as a change from a habitual activity to a non-habitual activity, takes energy and attention. When your brain fuel tank is low, you have limited metabolic resources to “run” your brain and it will transfer into a sort of “auto” mode, relying on habitual responses and behaviours to get you through your day. These responses may not always be appropriate for the given situation. Have you ever found yourself heading out when you are tired or distracted (low on brain fuel) and suddenly find yourself driving on auto pilot? Or when you’re trying to cut

back on chocolate and then find yourself immersed in something and reaching for it without thinking. Your ability to inhibit your more primal reactions is also compromised when brain fuel is low. It’s hard to say no. You may say things you didn’t mean to say, and your capacity for empathy is lower, so you can appear insensitive or non-caring. Habitual thinking patterns are the most difficult to control when you are brain-fuel challenged. Negative thinking patterns contribute to stress and anxiety. It takes energy and effort to break these habitual patterns and your brain will tend to avoid using unnecessary energy. So keeping an eye on the fuel gauge and ensuring regular, good quality top-ups is important for a fit and functioning brain. Here are three more tips for

keeping your brain fully focused: 1. Practice mindfulness. It’s not necessary to meditate or go on a retreat, just practise being in, and staying in, the present moment. You’d be surprised how difficult it is for the human brain to concentrate for just one minute on your own breathing without your mind wandering. This type of practice builds the muscle in your brain that needs to be more in control more often. 2. Experiment with naps. Just six minutes of lying down or dozing off, or giving yourself a brain-break can do wonders. Optimum is the 20 minute snooze! 3. Stay hydrated, with water. Your brain is made up of 80 per cent of the stuff, so dehydration can have a huge impact. Michelle Loch is an expert in the neuroscience of human motivation. Visit michelleloch.com

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HEALTH

Men can also be victims of breast cancer

lthough uncommon, breast cancer can affect men too. This year, about three men will be diagnosed each week with breast cancer in Australia. Cancer Australia CEO, Professor Helen Zorbas said that early detection and appropriate referral and treatment were key to surviving the disease. “Breast cancer is considered a woman’s cancer, but both men and women have breast tissue,” she said. “It’s important that men don’t let embarrassment or uncertainty prevent them from seeing their doctor if they notice a change in their breasts.” The most common symptom of breast cancer in men is a painless lump in the breast, often behind the nipple. Other signs and symptoms include discharge from the nipple; change in the shape or appearance of the nipple or chest muscle or the breast, such as swelling or dimpling; unusual

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pain that doesn’t go away and swollen lymph nodes (glands) under the arm. Professor Zorbas said not all changes in the breast were due to cancer, but it was important for men to see a doctor if they noticed any new or unusual breast changes. “Breast cancer in men can be treated successfully,” she said. “Finding and treating breast cancer early, before it has spread to other parts of the body, is as important for men as it is for women in surviving the disease.” Visit canceraustralia.gov.au

DEMENTIA RISES AS LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH Dementia death rates continue to rise as the population ages, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). It is now close to replacing heart disease as Australia’s leading cause of death since the early part of the 20th century. Statistics for 2015 show there were 159,052 deaths in Australia, with the infant mortality rate at a record low (3.2 deaths per 1000) and the standardised death rate remaining low at 5.5 deaths per 1000 people. James Eynstone-Hinkins, ABS Director of Health and Vital Statistics, said that over time, the decline in mortality rates and increase in life expectancy were contributing to the ageing of Australia’s

population. “Population projections indicate that the number of people aged 80 and over will double in the next 20 years,” he said. “Understanding and managing diseases of the elderly is critical as people live longer lives. “Death rates from dementia have continued to increase, while those from heart disease and stroke have steadily declined and if these trends continue, we can expect to see dementia become our leading cause of death within the next few years.” Heart disease remains the leading cause of death for both males and females, with dementia, strokes, lung cancer and chronic respiratory

conditions all in the top five. Diabetes is Australia’s sixth leading cause of death, accounting for 2.9 per cent of all deaths in 2015. There are more than a million Australians living with diabetes, and it was considered to be a contributory factor in more than 10 per cent of deaths in 2015. Cancers accounted for almost 30 per cent of Australian deaths. Lung cancer accounts for the most cancer, making it the second leading cause of death for males and fourth leading cause overall. Suicide is the leading cause of death among those aged 15-44 and remains the leading cause of premature mortality in Australia with 12.6 per 100,000 people.

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HEALTH

Something fishy about easing pain For many, pain hacks into the enjoyment of life and vitality every day, but as TRUDY KITHER explains, it doesn’t have to be that way.

hether it’s a dull persistent low ache or a sharp or dull persistent pain, it’s your body’s way of telling you that inflammation is present and it’s there for a reason! Inflammation can feel like a fire has been lit within your skin. This can be caused by injury, illness or other conditions such as arthritis, digestive disorders, muscular aches, headaches, hormones, stress and anxiety and lifestyle choices. These all help to keep the fire of inflammation burning. Inflammation may be short-term from an injury or irritation or can progress and linger, flaring up at certain times and eventually resulting in “chronic” (long-term) pain. When it progresses to chronic pain, it will start to do more harm than good. Inflammation (from the Latin “to set on fire”) typically presents as redness, heat and swelling, with accompanying

pain levels. It’s the body’s natural response to something that has caused irritation to the tissue and cells in the body. A good, high quality fish oil is a natural and effective option to help you reduce the pain of inflammation. Pharmaceutical antiinflammatories, which are commonly used to decrease pain and inflammation, carry the risk of upsetting and damaging the sensitive microbiome that is your gut flora. This can create another swag of problems for you to deal with

while your inflammation is trying to heal. Fish oil helps dampen the fire of inflammation as it contains Omega 3 (essential fatty acids EPA and DHA) which has been shown to have pain relieving and anti-inflammatory effects in sufferers. These EFAs increase the permeability of the cell walls thereby allowing the antiinflammatory actions of the fish oil to do the work it was meant for. Keep in mind they need to be taken at consistent therapeutic levels, along with

any other specifically targeted additional supplementation. But not all fish oils are created equal. Insist on only the highest quality and purity, ensuring they are well below the Australian Allowable Standards for contaminants such as heavy metals, pesticides and solvents. Also, check they are sourced from the small, cold water fish for optimal health benefits. Western diets high in sugar and processed foods and high in “bad” fats are pro-inflammatory, so making good choices will create lasting healthy, eating habits for life: • Include herbs and spices in your cooking – especially ginger and turmeric. • Eat seasonal and fresh fruit and try to find certified

organic as often as possible. • Minimise consumption of processed, refined carbohydrates such as white bread, pasta, cereals, cakes, packaged foods. • Choose two serves of fresh fruits and at least three cups of fresh vegetables daily. • Make a decision now. If you suspect you may have a gluten or dairy sensitivity, then eliminate the products for at least four weeks. If this has you complaining that you can’t live without it, chances are you DO have an allergy to it, which is triggering and complicating the inflammation processes. Your naturopath can prescribe specific, targeted, system-enhancing herbs, lifestyle and dietary changes to help undo the cycle of pain and inflammation that fuels your life. Trudy Kither is a registered naturopathic health provider. Visit naturestemple.net email tkither@gmail.com or call 0408 900 596.

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WHATâ€™S ON

More Nunsense at Sunnybank

AN Gogginâ€™s Nunsense concept originated as a line of greeting cards featuring a nun offering tart quips with a clerical slant. The cards caught on so quickly that Dan Goggin expanded his concept into a cabaret show, The Nunsense Story. This was so successful that Goggin expanded it into a full-length theatre production which had a record 10-year run; the second-longest running off-Broadway show in history. Goggin followed this with six sequels - and so Sunnybank Theatre Group invites guests to the hilarious, very funny and

wacky sequel, Sister Amnesiaâ€™s Country & Western Nunsense Jamboree. Sister Amnesiaâ€™s Jamboree is a hoot and is presented as a promotional tour for Sister Mary Amnesiaâ€™s newly released album, I Couldâ€™ve Gone to Nashville. Audiences will undoubtedly join with the cast as they sing We know that somewhere up in heaven youâ€™re a saint, Patsy Cline! Pam Cooper, director of this Sunnybank production, has directed many musicals in the past and is delighted to bring this sequel which will be the third time Sunnybank has brought the Nuns to the stage. It is a lively, entertaining, fun show which will delight audiences. The box office has opened and seats are selling fast so itâ€™s a good idea to book now. Sunnybank Theatre, 14 Mains Rd, Sunnybank. November 11-26, Wednesdays and Fridays 8pm, Saturdays 2pm and 8pm.Tickets $14-$28. Bookings call 3345 3964 and press option 1 for bookings or visit stg.org.au

STARS SHINE ON SOUTHERN CROSS SOLOISTS THE Southern Cross Soloists welcome ARIA Award-winning Australian singer Sara Macliver as special guest for Heavenly Voice, a sparkling concert of master works for the soprano voice, to conclude their 2016 concert season. Heavenly Voice will feature a diverse program from Monteverdi and Mozart to Joni Mitchell, with Macliver also giving a performance from her acclaimed ABC Classics recording of Canteloubeâ€™s Songs of the Auvergne. McIver is one of Australiaâ€™s most popular and versatile sopranos, appearing in opera,

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concert and recital performances and on numerous recordings. With musicians coming from around Australia, the Soloists are a national ensemble of outstanding artists. QPAC Concert Hall, reverse mode. Sunday, November 27, 3pm. Tickets qpac.com.au or phone 136 246.

HILLS PLAYERS PRESENT FUN COMEDY CRAZY Ladies, the final Hills Players play for the year, is now in production. The play is about a 25-year reunion for four best friends from high school. This comedy is a roller-coaster ride of emotions. Hills Players meet at 7pm Monday and Wednesday. Anyone who would like to join is welcome to visit thehillsplayers.com St Matthews Church Hall, Church Rd, Mitchelton. November 4-5 and 11-12, 7.45pm. Tickets $15, concessions $10. Bookings 3351 4496 or 3355 7319.

IMAGINE the awe of an 18th century musical masterpiece being performed under the towering roof of a gothic cathedral â€“ but you donâ€™t have to leave Brisbane. The Bach Society Choir will this month present GF Handelâ€™s magnificent choral masterpiece, The Messiah, in St Johnâ€™s Cathedral. With orchestra and soloists, conducted by David Webster, the choir will recreate the 1743 London premiere performance. The Bach Society was founded in 1971 with the aim of promoting the music of the great German composer, JS Bach and his contemporaries. Since then the choir has regularly been performing in concerts in and around Brisbane, their specialty being choral music of the 17th and 18th centuries. St Johnâ€™s Anglican Cathedral, 373 Ann St, Brisbane. Saturday, November 26, 7.30 pm. Tickets: $40; $35 concession; $30 groups 6+ Available at the door or book at bachsocqld.org.au

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JO’K ROCKS THE STAGE IN BEENLEIGH BEENLEIGH Theatre Group is excited to present the music of the 1950s to tell the story of legendary Australian rocker Johnny O’Keefe in Shout. Featuring such Gold 104 standards as She’s My Baby, Rock Around The Clock, Wild One and, of course, Shout!, the show follows O’Keefe on his journey from obscurity to stardom. It details his remarkably successful career and the inverse destruction of his personal life and, most importantly, the relationship with his beloved wife Marianne. JO’K was the first Australian rock n’ roll performer to tour the US. He is still the Australian performer with the most Top 40 hits, with a record of 29

spanning his career from 1959 to 1974. This production of Shout! features a great array of local talent headed by Mark Reynolds as Johnny O’Keefe in his adult years and Justin Collier playing JO’K in his childhood. Mark is very much the master of 1950s rock and roll, having played the part of The Big Bopper in the Buddy Holly Story and Del Shannon in Breaking up is Hard to Do. There’s no doubt that the talented group of people assembled for this production will make the girls want to don bobby socks and the men to slick back their hair to rock around the clock with the Beenleigh Theatre Group.

VALLEY OF THE DOLLS WITH A TWIST JACQUELINE Susann’s controversial and bestselling novel of 1966, Valley of the Dolls, was adapted into an equally shocking film which is now considered a cult/camp classic. Now you are invited to pull

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prompts and enter Arrive early for pre-show ‘60s music and go-go girls and there will be prizes for the best outfit. New Farm Cinema, Brunswick St. November 26, 4pm. Tickets $19 (includes jellybeans). Visit kristianfletcher.com

JOIN the inaugural Bowies Down Brunswick, a flashmob of David Bowie lookalikes, and raise funds for the Cancer Council while enjoying a fun tribute to the singer. It will be just part of a series of Bowie-themed events planned for the afternoon and into the evening. The program starts at 4pm with a special 30th anniversary screening of Jim Henson’s 1986 family film Labyrinth at New Farm Cinemas. Starring David Bowie, and with a soundtrack by the man himself, this 1980s fantasy on the big screen has been digitally remastered so even if you saw it then, it wasn’t like this. Labyrinth remains a cult favourite, mainly due to Bowie’s memorable performance as the Goblin King Jareth. Tickets are $15 and bookings are advisable. Then, from 5.30pm, dress in any of Bowie’s many incarnations and gather outside the cinema for the Bowies Down Brunswick walk. Along the way to New Globe Theatre, a selection of venues will be alive with Bowie music,

themed cocktails and more. Between 5.30pm and 7pm, costumed Bowies can stop at venues offering some kind of Bowie experience, whether it be a menu item, themed cocktail, or music. Participants will receive a guide with clues, trivia and a list of venues to visit along the way with a gold coin donation, all proceeds for the Cancer Council. “I wanted to create a evening which honours Bowie’s legacy while also helping a great cause,” organiser Kristian Fletcher said. The fun continues at New Globe Theatre from 7pm. There will be pre-show Bowie music in the licensed venue, then the retro cinema will screen documentary clips, performance footage and music videos on the big screen, interwoven with live performances by local Brisbane entertainers. Starts at New Farm Cinemas, 701 Brunswick St, New Farm. Saturday, November 5, from 4pm

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The WORLD in Your Hands Travel in Your Time Island getaway packed with adventure Sometimes you just need to get offshore for a break, and DOT WHITTINGTON found Langkawi ticks all the boxes for a change of scenery. wet bar, sipping cocktails and lunching at the water’s edge against a lush rainforest background. Dinners were part of the package and despite the luxury of the rooms and playgrounds and the beauty of the location, it didn’t break the bank at around $700 for three nights. By now relaxed after swimming, reading, eating, drinking and generally unwinding, it was time to head back to the main island for some serious exploration. Cenang, near the port (although too far to walk) and the airport, seemed the

t doesn’t take that long to get there, comparatively, but Langkawi off the Malaysian coast northwest of Penang, is entering a whole new world. Langkawi, officially the Jewel of its state Kedah, is actually an archipelago of 104 islands in the Andaman Sea, about 30km from the Malaysian mainland. Largest of the islands is the epynomous Langkawi, population about 65,000 with Kuah as its capital. An Air Asia flight from the Gold Coast to Kuala Lumpur takes just over eight hours and from there, it’s a quick onehour flight on to Langkawi. We left at night, so by midday the following day we were touching down in bright sunlight at the whimsical airport, little more than a landing strip surrounded by rich green, with the name colourfully spelt out to make it clear we had arrived.

Keen for a few days rest before exploring, we simply took a cab for the 20-minute ride to Port Cenang where a ferry, a rather grandiose description for a motor boat, took less than 10 minutes to whisk us across the water to Rebak island. It seemed improper to visit just one island in an archipelago so we had booked three days of luxury break at the rather splendid Vivanta by Taj Resort, which is all there really is on the 158ha Rebak. There is not a lot of sightseeing to be had here, other than the port, the only fully-equipped marina in the country with its impressive fleet of floating palaces; and the distant shores of Thailand. While there’s a beach, the water is less than enticing but then this was about lounging around by the huge pool with

wanted them, with a street full of authentic cafes on the doorstep. Staff were helpful and friendly, the room was spotless and, importantly, the airconditioning was excellent, all within minutes of the action. A balcony overlooking the beach and markets provided plenty of entertainment too. The beach itself was busy with all sorts of motorised water sports – paragliding, jet skis, tube riding – most of them activities long since banned on local beaches, especially with utes backed up on the beach loaded with drums of fuel.

Easy life beside the pool on the tiny resort island of Rebak best place to set up camp. Although you can easily get around the island in a day, Cenang is the beating heart for the visitor and has oodles of accommodation options, from a collection of resorts fronting the beach to apartments in the town centre.

“The birds gather and swoop, filling the skies over the boat in an impressive display of wings” We settled in at Cenang Plaza Beach Hotel, which proved an excellent choice between the beach and shops, cafes and restaurants – and costing less for a week than for the previous three days. Meals weren’t included but who

In fact, the beach wasn’t a great option. It was busy with day beds for rent and was not a place to lay out a towel and relax but after thee days of that on Rebak, we were happy to head off. An island hopping trip jetted first towards Singa Besar island to feed the brahminy kite, known in Australia as the red-backed sea eagle. It gives its name to the island – “helang” meaning eagle and “kawi” reddish-brown, and is the subject of an impressive 12m monument at the port in Kuah. The birds gather and swoop, filling the skies over the boat in an impressive display of huge wings, as meat scraps are thrown out for them. Then its off to Dayang Bunting Island and a walk through national park, accompanied by troops of monkeys, to Pregnant Maiden Lake. Look closely on the way in, and the mountains of the island reveal the shape of a reclining woman with a pregnant belly. Legend has it that the princess Mambang Sari laid to rest her newborn son in the lake and made a blessing to all

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Suitcases loaded for the return to Langkawi.

The Wat Koh Wanararm Temple is just party of the Lucky temple complex. women who have trouble conceiving. It is said that infertile women who swim in the lake will fall pregnant. After a long, hot walk down to the deep lake, the water was refreshing, but very cold. A maze of little jetties provided plenty of places to launch into the chill waters before tackling the walk back to the boat. Despite their being plenty of warnings not to feed the monkeys, it doesn’t stop them approaching and as my friend wryly observed when her water bottle disappeared from her backpack, it was an ideal place to get the monkey off your back. Last stop was Beras Basah Island with white sandy beaches and a chance to swim in clear water, free from fuel and fumes. Having explored some of the many islands of Langkawi, it was time to survey

the big one. Taxis are cheap, the drivers are helpful and friendly and we set off on a trip anti-clockwise around the main island, starting at Kuah. Not far from the capital is the hidden treasure of the Langkawi Lucky Temple, which is still to be taken over as a tourist mecca. A statue carved into the mountain is accompanied by colourful Buddha statues both inside and in the gardens of the temple. The beautiful Durian Perangin waterfalls and a black sandy beach add further diversity to the trip. Last port of call on the road back to Cenang is a cable car ride to the top of Mount Mat Chinchang for spectacular views of Langkawi. The cable car has the longest suspension in the world between two stations and was built without

constructing any roads through the jungle. It wraps up a long day of sightseeing so the best way to relax is a massage and there are plenty to choose from. In fact, it quickly became habit to have a reflexology massage every day, and staff at one of the many massage shopfronts on the street soon came to know us by name, telling us local stories along the way.

Cengang had plenty of dining opportunities, from little cafes on the beach to the main street lined with restaurants offering fresh food for all palates. Langkawi is a duty free island but still, a stopover for shopping in Kuala Lumpur on the return is fun, and then it was home, fully relaxed and recharged and, while not much poorer financially, hugely richer for the experience.

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Whole new world to discover in the West Not far from beautiful Broome, our grey nomad BEVERLEY EVERSON discovers the fascinating Cape Leveque region.

ur first glimpse of what lay ahead, came when we took a flight with King Leopold Air. Heading overland from Broome, we crossed King Sound on to the Buccaneer Archipelago of about 800 islands, then flew over the Horizontal Falls and on to Talbot Bay and the large open-cut iron ore mines of Kooland and Cockatoo Islands. We landed at Cape Leveque for lunch and a swim in this crystal-clear turquoise bay. The sand was so white that sunglasses are a dress requirement. The return flight took us back along the coast over Pender Bay, where we spotted whales. We circled a few times for photo opportunities and then headed on over Cape Baskerville and Quondong Point. We told the pilot we intended heading there to stay for a few days, so he flew over for a bird’s eye view of the camping area where caravans were lined along the dunes. Finally, we went over Cape Bolieau and the Willie Bay Pearl farm before returning to land in Broome. The scenery of the Kimberly coast and day trip is a special part of Australia, and the experience of landing on a small runway at Cape Leveque is one is memorable, in a good way. Make no mistake though, if your budget can extend to actually landing at the Horizontal Falls, then do it! It’s hard to imagine, but as the name suggests, the water passes horizontally. It is a natural phenomenon created by one of the world’s highest tides – about a 10m variation –resulting in spectacular whitewater tidal shifts through two narrow cliffs about 300m apart. The boat ride is mind-blowing on all accounts. Friends who have taken the day flight, landing in a water plane right at the falls or extending the budget even further to a stay on the spot overnight, said it was truly memorable – forget the

A bird’s eye view of the world-famous Horizontal Falls expense and just do it. The Horizontal Falls are recognised as one of the greatest wonders of the natural world. The next day we farewelled Broome and 40km laterup the Cape Leveque Rd, passed the turnoff to Willie Creek Pearl farm and reached our destination of Quondong Point. Camp sites are on sand dunes well above the high tide mark and even though the tracks are firm, a 4WD is needed. Past this point is not recommended for 2WDs or caravans to the Cape as it is very corrugated and of course impossible to traverse in the wet. As this was peak tourist time in July, finding a vacant camp at Quondong Point was difficult but as luck would have it,

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just as we arrived someone was pulling out and the spot was perfect for our little van – and it was one of the best sites. This is also crocodile country, so there is a need to be vigilant on both land and water. In saying that, we did find some amazing rock pools with the waves crashing over them to create a spa effect, so we spent a lot of time being massaged by the Indian Ocean, as well as taking long walks along sandy white beaches and sitting at our campsite at sunset, a fire ablaze enjoying refreshments while whales played in the distance. The following day we left our van and drove further up the coast, about 15km, to James Price Point and along a good dirt road to Cape Baskerville. This was the scene of the landmark 2013 Supreme Court decision overruling the LNG Woodside Petroleum’s gas plant hub project, after successful lobbying by the Wilderness Society to save this sacred place. Remnants of the protest can still be seen, even though the site is abandoned, and there’s a huge “no gas” sign on a cliff. The Aboriginal people take the fossilised footprints on the beach as the footprints of Emu-man, their ancestor in

the Dreamtime. Thankfully this and the wildlife was saved for future generations. Unfortunately we did not visit Beagle Bay (another bad decision). This community established in about 1890 by Trappist Monks has a history of caring for the stolen children. This is the land of the Nyul Nyul people. The first Catholic School was established in 1892. The St John of God Sisters opened a mission school in 1901 and the famous church was opened in 1918. Main feature of the church is a pearl shell altar, highly unusual and quite magnificent. As we had flown into One Arm Point at Cape Leveque the previous week, we did take the 4WD onwards. The Cape is 240km from Broome and is remote with few facilities. Located on the western entrance of King Sound, a 13m lighthouse built in 1912 still operates. Cape Leveque’s huge middens overshadow the small caravan park and cafe/tourist information centre which rests on the shores below the lighthouse. Just 2km out of town is Gumbalah where you can camp for $20 a night with cold showers and flush dunnies – and access is good if the grader has been through. In our travel diary, I made the comment “must return”. This part of the Kimberley is truly remarkable, beautiful, diverse and unique.

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Food for the soul

You may return a little heavier from a food and wine weekend in Adelaide, but at least you’ll have something to show for your hard work, writes LEIGH ROBSHAW.

View of Onkaparinga Valley from the Pike & Joyce tasting room.

he rather handsome Craig Vanstone’s enthusiasm for the wine he’s pouring in the tasting room of Pike & Joyce Wines is even more intoxicating than the wine itself. Very little is ending up in the spit bucket as we sip each new wine and cast our eyes through floor to ceiling windows overlooking vineyards stretching out below. Set high in the Adelaide Hills, 40 minutes from the CBD, the single estate winery is a partnership between two families – the Joyce family, fifth generation

horticulturalists and the Pike family, long established in winemaking and viticulture. We begin with a Method Cuvee Pinot Noir Rose, a light-bodied drop with fresh aromas of strawberry, cranberry and watermelon. Next up is a crisp Sauvignon Blanc, followed by a medium-bodied ‘Separe’ Gruner Veltiner with a bright palate and subtle pear scents, then we progress to a Pinot Gris with subtle notes of nashi pear, nectarine and musk. . . and the rest is a blur. Okay I’ll admit it; I drank too much. But

the Pike & Joyce elixirs were too good to waste and it’s what a chauffeured tour of the Adelaide Hills is all about, isn’t it? It’s easy to nip down to Adelaide for an indulgent food and wine weekend, a quick two-hour flight, and we stayed at the Majestic Roof Garden Hotel, well situated near the shopping and entertainment hub of Rundle Street. Our first stop is Adelaide Central Market, the beating heart of the city. With not a fast food franchise in sight, paper lanterns dangle colourfully above the bustling market, which is all about fresh produce – artisan cheeses, feather-light pavlovas and decadent pastries like those you’ll drool over at Poh Ling Yeow’s new project, the eclectic Jamface. We order fat pizza and fresh pasta with home-cooked sauces at the legendary Lucia’s Pizza & Spaghetti Bar. It’s a busy café and the food takes a while to arrive, but we’re not in a hurry. Leave some room for chef Mark Gleeson’s famous Adelaide Central Market Tours, which have become an institution after 15 successful years. Gleeson is a chef who’s owned Providore at Stall 66 for 30 years, one of the longest running stalls at the market.

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Dessert at Pike & Joyce Wines. whoâ€™ve fed hungry hordes at the markets as he zips in and out of stalls, emerging with plates of mouthwatering prosciutto or fresh Korean pancakes. Originally from Sydney, Gleeson has been here long enough to have inherited the addictive passion for good food and wine that seems bred into the DNA of everyone you meet in Adelaide. Make sure you bring your stretchy pants, because just when you think you canâ€™t eat or drink another thing, youâ€™ll be met with looks of disappointment if you decline dessert. Dinner that evening is at Blackwood Restaurant, which specialises in locally sourced produce with native and wild ingredients foraged from the land. The paddock-to-plate focus is communicated through a wall decorated

with arty photos of what youâ€™re eating â€“ a cow, a pig, potatoes in the earth, a handful of herbs, telling your eyes what your tastebuds already know: itâ€™s seriously fresh food produced with love and care. Day two begins with a tour of the famous Haighâ€™s Chocolate factory, where we learn every step in the process of chocolate making. Watching through a viewing window, weâ€™re mesmerised by two ladies meticulously rolling each chocolate by hand like oompa loompas. The 60 per cent off section of the store is a revelation â€“ the chocolate still tastes perfect but has slight imperfections, so itâ€™s the place to stock up on gifts. Our chauffeur for the day is the charismatic Ralf Hadzic, who runs Life is a Cabernet tours around Adelaide and into the hills. Hadzic was born in Adelaide but grew up in Ohio, then lived in Texas, before returning to Australia. He spent 10 years playing the big orange feline in the TV show Fat Cat and Friends. Ralf has worked in the entertainment industry in Australia and the US for years, so heâ€™s a chauffeur with pizzaz, full of fascinating stories about everyone from Jimmy Buffet to BeyoncĂŠ. Ralf delivers us from one chocolate heaven to another â€“ from Haighâ€™s to the sublime ChocoVino experience at Hahndorf Hill Winery, matching quality chocolate with boutique wine.

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Age no limit for the traveller Everyone has that place they’ve always been meaning to visit “one day” and, KATE DEVER writes, now is the time to do it.

hen the kids are finished school, when the mortgage is paid off, when the grandkids are older or when we finish working – there are a lot of reasons people put off taking that magical trip. But, as more seniors are discovering, age isn’t one of them. There are actually more reasons than ever for seniors to travel, and more travel agents, tours, incentives and products on the market that cater specifically for those who want to take their time and soak up every moment of the journey. If you’re ready to take the trip you’ve always wanted, or you’ve finally reached that place where you are free to enjoy the benefits of travel without the hassle, hustle and bustle, here’s some tips to take the stress out of your holiday. USE A TRAVEL AGENT Booking through a travel agent makes arranging a trip easy and

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and in some cases even meals along the way. Best of all, most travel agents also have access to great rates for packages and tours, seniors’ discounts and good advice on the best times of year to travel. CHOOSE SENIOR SPECIFIC OPERATORS It sounds cliché but seeking out

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Soft refrains down in Africa There’s nothing to compare with the sights and sounds of Africa in the early morning. SEAN LUES shares his experience.

iltering through my dreams, I was aware of the distant call of lions – a series of deep belly-pushing grunts, which instinctively caused my heart to beat faster. Pulling the fine Egyptian linen up to my chin eased all fears and I drifted back to sleep. Moments later we heard tea cups tinkle outside our “banda” and a voice called to wake us. Sitting on our veranda and sipping freshly-brewed coffee, we watched as light slowly seeped over the plains far below - playing tricks with our eyes. Using the binoculars a “moving bush” turned out to be a hippo, ambling slowly back towards the waterhole. A hyena whooped, and then another joined in the chorus, advertising their presence to other clans around. The day had begun. In the comfortable seats of the open vehicle, we slowly bumped our way into the grasslands. Rays of sunlight filtered through the branches of palm

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BOOK REVIEW

ELIZABETH PASCOE

This is a truly illuminating book about the heroic spirit of responsibility and the true image of being a doctor. His honesty shines through as a beacon for the rest of us mere mortals, “a profound reflection of the meaning of life”. It’s a wonderful book to keep in the bookshelf to reread passages every now and then. I am so pleased to have had the opportunity to have read this amazing book but wish it had been printed 20 years ago. Everyone should read this affirmation of life.

TONY HARRINGTON

I found this book a bit ordinary, although it was sad for this privileged and ultra-high achieving young man in the prime of life to be struck down by terminal disseminated lung cancer. I shouldn’t speak ill of the dead but I found the continual blowing of his own trumpet and introspection self-centred and the pretentious literary writing style annoying. He offers no new insights into how to live or die well, only a description of his terminal journey. His wife, who wrote the epilogue should have written this book! It will bring tears to your eyes and bring a bit of colour to his monochromatic personality. 4/10

BOOK review JOHN KLEINSCHMIDT This is a book that I would not normally choose to read as biographies are simply not high on my reading list. Paul Kalanithi demonstrates the prowess of his English PhD in describing his cancer journey while eloquently reminding us that we all confront our mortality every day whether we know it or not. I am not motivated or inspired by authors who agonise over the meaning of life or what makes life worth living. I prefer to plan life within my sphere of influence and for all else, go where life takes me. Worth reading, but only because Paul achieved a great deal in a short life.

JO BOURKE

WHEN BREATH BECOMES AIR By Paul Kalanthi

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was making a living treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to stay alive and the future he and his wife had imagined with their baby girl evaporated. Kalanithi wrestles with questions about life and death and what it means to have a child and nurture new life as an older life fades away in his profound memoir. He died in March 2015, while working on this book, a life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both.

This is more than the tragic story of a top surgeon whose life was cut short by cancer. As well as many doctors, high school students on the cusp of decisions for work and life would likely identify with much of it and be moved by its honesty. Paul Kalanithi doesn’t hold back as he shares with us his indecision on his academic studies, his continual search for the meaning of life and his choice of neurosurgery as a career. I loved the detail of life as a medical student! So often I have wondered, “What was it like the first time for my GP or Surgeon?” Paul answered with honesty, the reverence of dissecting a cadaver and humour of his crooked first stitches which needed to be redone. I have new respect for our medical profession. In the final pages dealing with Paul’s account of his dying I looked up a word I had not read before – ‘pluperfect’. The meaning? “More than perfect, supremely accomplished”. Guess for me this sums up this man’s life and his account of it. It has been a privilege to read it.

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MARY BARBER The cover promised “the gravity and wisdom of an ancient Greek tragedy”. Well, I didn’t find it. Sure, it talks about having a meaningful life, but that’s a very individual thing. The author is a reflective man. He talks about the doctor-patient relationship in hospital settings, which is usually mechanistic with its focus on disease progressions and treatments. He shares his journey towards being more present with his patients and becoming a better doctor and a better person for it. Generally the book was easy to follow but when it went metaphysical and poetic, sorry, it lost me. As a memoir of a young man facing cancer treatment and death, it’s informative and worthwhile. I’ve learnt from it and that’s enough.

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16 3

17 4

18 5

19 6

20 7

21 8

22 9

23 10

24 11

25 12

26 13

PERMUTATE TABBY, ABBEY, MAYBE, SEAMY, AMUSE, MOUSE There may be other correct answers

SCATTERWORD SACKCLOTH, clack, chalk, shack, cloak, slack, stack, shako, skoal, stalk, chock, clock, shock, stock, hack, calk, lack, cask, sack, tack, kola, talk, soak, task, cock, hock, lock, sock, kohl, skol.

1. Poor; 2. Four; 3. Submarine; 4. Conical; 5. Nine; 6. The tongue; 7. Dan Kelly; 8. 31 December; 9. Four 10. Stewart; 11. Omniscient; 12. Istanbul; 13. J.R.R Tolkien; 14. Netball; 15. London; 16. Mercury and Venus 17. Julienne; 18. Buffalo grass; 19. Portwenn; 20. 27 49.indd 3

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PUZZLE SOLUTIONS QUICK CROSSWORD

U AWK J L O T S V D H Y

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PUZZLES

CRYPTIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

DOWN

8 9 10 11 13 15 18 19 20

Flee! Lost blood is all mixed up (9) The condition of the mounted man (5) As you walk down it I can almost hear you say, “I will” (5) Involve the centre bend before the end (6) Not one Japanese plane ﬂies in a daze, round and round (4) Really, it is not concerning a friend (4) Stray mauls Andrew (6) Fashion race about vest top (5) Somewhere in Omaha vocalists are in confusion (5) The GP polished off his advanced degree! (9)

3 4 5 6 7 12 14 16 17

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Acted out the part of a young soldier (5) Assistance arrives after being far out and frightened (6) Inﬂuence that runs across the fabric? (4) Orpheus nearly came up to see what might follow (5) Complaint about a nice grave? (9) In which the people get to say how to cook the cod. Creamy, of course! (9) A less prudent slice of meat? (6) Put right into the goal somehow, like slow music (5) Five involved in the song for two came down stuffed (5) Sounds like a perfume of very low price! (4)

CODEWORD

No. 710

9 22

WORK IT OUT!

SUDOKU WORDFIND

Level: Medium

No. 37

akubra

hair

balaclava

hat

biretta

helmet

boater

mortarboard

bonnet

snood

cap

sombrero

chapeau

tiara

cloche

toque

deerstalker

turban

fedora

wig

No. 764

fez

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PUZZLES

QUICK CROSSWORD

No. 3620

SCATTERWORD

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Today’s Aim: 20 words Good 25 words Very good 28 words Excellent

SUDOKU Level: Easy

No. 763

K O

No. 2956

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.

PERMUTATE

ACROSS 1 5 10 11 12 13 15 17 19 20 22 24 26 27 30

Spheres Punches Consumer Covered with trees Russian leader White and opaque (of liquid) Apply for scholastic studies Rescue Pastry treat Capably Cottoned on (informal) Traveller’s sleeping space Medicine Damp Slight atmospheric obscurity

31 Close 32 Fluidic lump 35 Gives someone temporary use of (something) 36 Young, immature human 38 Large wading bird 40 Sadder (informal) 41 Type of car 42 Encounters 43 Consequently (Latin)

DOWN 2 3 4 6 7

Ability to spring back Bleat Might Nocturnal predator Chinese cooking vessels

8 9 13 14 16 18 21 23 25 28 29 32 33 34 37 39

Protein derived from Asian beans Pile of wood for ceremonial cremation Prepared for active service Woes Uncooked Authenticating Still Negative aspect Interjection of incomprehension Shopping complex Lair Regular solid shape Offscourings You Ill-will Prohibit

No. 029

WORK IT OUT!

Your aim is to change the top word one letter at a time, each time rearranging the letters to create a new word. Perform one such permutation for each blank line until you arrive at the last word. There may be more than one correct solution.

TABBY

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