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ll going well, English couple Karam and Kartari Chand will celebrate their 90th wedding anniversary next month. This month she turns 103 and he celebrates his 110th birthday, so at 13, she was quite literally a child bride. They met in India, had eight children and moved to the UK in 1965 when they had already been married for 40 years. Admittedly one has to reach great age, but by any measure that’s a long time married. Sadly, it doesn’t work out that happily for everyone with either death or divorce intervening and when that happens and you are past

Contents middle-age (which even in the case of the Chands is 55+) it can be confusing, devastating, lonely and a thousand other emotions. For some, the life of a single works well, but for others, the mere thought of heading into old age alone is daunting and even downright terrifying. This month, Allison White investigates some of the options available if you are looking for company on the road ahead. And while it might sound odd to be out “dating” (conjuring up memories of Grease and Happy Days) there’s not really a better word for it unless we go back to “courting”. On a completely different topic, in response to reader feedback we have made some of the puzzles a bit easier. The word was that they were getting too hard to be fun. I hope you will find them nicely challenging now. So, grab a cuppa and settle back for a good read.

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Looking for love in all the new places Over 55 and not feeling the love? It’s all up to you and what you want, reports ALLISON WHITE.

“She knows that he will phone and he knows that she will say yes, the call is about organising a meeting and knowing they will get along”

eartbreak isn’t the exclusive territory of the young. By the time we reach 55 and beyond, death and divorce sees isolation and a fear of growing old alone, become a very real possibility. Many Baby Boomers were still very

young when they married and had children so never gave much thought to what they really wanted and needed from their partner. For some, if it was a friend, they would have dumped them long since, but instead they stay in the marriage

and at well past middle age, find themselves growing old unhappily – or alone. In fact, the rate of divorce among those over 50 has doubled in the past 20 years, so much so that the term “grey divorce” has been coined.

As we head into the festive season, many widowers, widows and divorcees who might otherwise happily get on with life, will become acutely aware that they are now alone and not part of a couple. So, what to do about it. Unlike the optimism of youth, when a night out on the town could change your fortunes and you’ve got your whole life ahead of you to find a partner and settle down, by this age social networks and activities are generally more restricted. The clubs we visit are for more genteel pursuits than “clubbing” on a Saturday night. Networks created at the school gate or following children’s activities have also closed and a workplace romance is fraught with the danger of losing a job as well as a relationship. “It’s just hard to meet someone as I seldom go out by myself or if I do, I go with the girls. There’s nothing romantic about that,” says 58-year-old Karen. “The only men I meet are at work and there’s nothing romantic about that either.” When it comes to looking for love, there are essentially three choices, says matchmaker Linda Prescott, director of Ideal Introductions who has been bringing people together for more than 25 years. About 40 per cent of her clients are aged 55+. The first is to get out and meet

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people through clubs and organisations from bowls, golf and tennis to bridge, chess and quiz nights; art and craft to fitness and line dancing; history research to volunteering at meals on wheels. The special interests are already established so there is immediately something in common and the chances of meeting someone are up there with the dance halls and picture theatres of youthful courting. There are also websites such as Meetup (meetup.com) which list plenty of groups to browse and join in activities with like-minded others. It might be for dinner parties, lunch, hiking or the cinema, but it is a chance to do what you want with others of a similar vintage. Travel companies are also increasingly responding to the Baby Boomer solo traveller, recognising it as a growing market. Since this is a more social and independent option, it’s not a ticket to a relationship but at least it’s company. The second option, online dating, moves into the more serious “I’m looking for a partner” territory. There are now a number of websites specifically targeting the age group, such as olderdatingonline.com. Like other online dating sites such as RSVP.com and eharmony.com.au, participants register for a reasonable fee, list their background and interests and search the faces and profiles for

“It’s a good idea to let a girlfriend know in advance to give you a quick phone call so you can exit the meeting gracefully” one they hope might work for them. Contact is made via the internet and a place and time agreed for a meeting, usually a coffee. This can be harrowing. “Usually you know straight away if it’s going to work,” says 64-year-old Joy. “I had some interesting – even ghastly – experiences.

“It’s a good idea to let a girlfriend know in advance to give you a quick phone call so you can exit the meeting gracefully if the person you are meeting for the first time is not what they said they were or clearly not your type. “Sometimes it can take a second meeting – maybe a casual dinner to

work this out – but always choose a public place and take your own transport. “One man I met seemed lovely at first but the dinner date proved that he obviously had alcohol problems. I was able to make a fast exit from that particular catastrophe in my own car.” Ms Prescott also has a word of warning. “Make sure you are super careful about what you do. “Choose a reputable website recommended by friends or family and if someone’s profile looks too good to be true, it probably is,” she says. “Statistically, about 20 per cent of people who go online are already in relationships and are looking for sex, while 64 per cent lie about their profile. “Some find they are getting the attention they have wanted for a long time, love the compliments and romance and take the bait – ‘give me money so I can come and see you because I think I’m in love with you’.” Ms Prescott says romance scams on online sites and chatrooms claim about $20 million a year, mainly from mature women, but that amount is probably much more because a lot are too embarrassed to admit it. “You can be vulnerable so I would be asking my kids what they think about it,” she says. Remember, it is a virtual world and a liaison can be as dangerous as continued over>

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COVER STORY <from previous page meeting a stranger behind a Fortitude Valley nightclub at 2am. University of Canberra researcher Nigel Phair warns scammers are cunning. “They set up fake profiles on dating sites and use emotional manipulation to extract personal details, money and gifts,” he says. “Typically they work hard to gain a victim’s trust over the first few weeks and months before requesting money to help a sick relative, visit a dying mother a last time or undertake urgent medical treatment.” But online dating doesn’t have to be all about being flat broke and nursing a broken heart. On the last roll of the dice, Joy met the right man and has lived happily ever after for the past decade, despite her early misgivings and dramas. The third option for finding a partner is getting very serious indeed. The personal introduction is Ms Prescott’s specialty and is for those who are definitely committed to finding a new partner. “It’s an easy process if you want to find someone to spend the rest of your life with, as the agency acts as a filter,”

“The first is to get out and meet people through clubs and organisations” she says. She first chats to clients to determine “if your head is in the right place for dating and secondly, to make sure your expectations are realistic.” And she stresses that it is important to manage expectations in a new relationship. “When you are 70 or 80, your partner is not going to be fantastic looking. The important thing is that they are your friend,” she says. “You are never going to find perfect, so aim for 70 per cent.” She has an extensive database and comes up with some likely “matches” to “reduce the dating pool”. If a client decides to proceed, Ms Prescott makes the introduction and they have a choice on whether to meet. There is some certainty to this too. “She knows that he will phone and he knows that she will say yes,” she

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COVER STORY says. “The call is about organising a meeting and knowing they will get along.” After the first date, each person gives feedback. “Men don’t date well and women have high expectations,” she says. “I can coach men about dating skills, but women know what they want in a partner so I help them manage their expectations. “Women will say they will pick better this time and think logically, but they will go into every little detail such as what clothes he wore and the colour of his shoes, so I tell them to relax and not sweat the small stuff.” Men tend to talk about themselves a lot and women find that rude, so her feedback will be that that’s a man thing to do and to take it as a compliment. Ms Prescott said a lot of people are nervous, so they don’t show who they really are on a first date. “The beginning of a relationship is managed,” she says.

There are a lot more women than men on her database, she believes because after a relationship breaks down, men tend to “go into their man cave and hide”. “Widowers, on the other hand, need someone straight away – he has had a good relationship and he misses it,” she says. “If a man comes in who is in his 60s or 70s we can have him in a relationship within six weeks.” On the other hand, women over 55 are often more independent and financially secure so their wish list has grown bigger. And some final advice from the Matchmaker: “Put yourself out there. Dating is getting out of your comfort zone. “Don’t be afraid to get out and date. Take off the blinkers and remember, there is a lid for every pot.” And there is a fourth option of course, and that is to enjoy the single life doing everything you want to do when you want to do it without having to consult a partner.

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Language goes to the dogs

My whine this time is about “weasel words” – words that weasel their way into corporate speak to justify the opposite of what they say. Many of your grocery items have shrunk in size while the cost has remained the same. This is to “improve your shopping experience”, say the manufacturers. Weasel words, because they don’t. Unilever says their 30 per cent smaller detergent packs “deliver the same washing experience”. Just not as many of them for the same price! They have also shrunk the size of their personal deodorant packs by 24 per cent. This “improvement” was “so it would more easily fit in handbags”. Don’t you keep yours on the bathroom shelf? You’re not going to squirt yourself in public are you? Or roll your underarms on the train? Cadbury took a nibble out of its chocolate bars. The world price of cocoa has remained the same but “its product costs are far more complicated than the price of commodities at a given time”. Don’t have a bar of that one. Nestle bit 15 per cent off its Kit Kats saying “the focus of the change was

Having read the comments about the English language (Oct), I was prompted to write some of my own “pet peeves”. How often do we see and hear an adjective used as an adverb in advertisements and every day speech. For example “drive safe” – not safely; “get money fast” – not quickly. Also, we do not dance, cook or “up a storm” anything. The word “yes” is overused and incorrectly used, for example “how are you?”, “yes, good”. “You know” is an expression used for years and my answer is always, “no, I don’t know”. Is it any wonder the English language is going to the dogs. Construct a sentence and speak correctly. Marie Davis

portion size. . . because they had been too high energy”. You fat kids are eating too much chocolate, so we’ve shrunk the blocks. Give us a break; but let’s not have a Kit Kat. That’s a real sugar hit. Potato chips have sliced off 11 per cent because their products “continue to be manufactured in Australia from Australian potatoes”. So, demand that our chips come from Brazil. . . like our coffee, nuts and asparagus. Why should we pay more because our spuds come from Tasmania? Finally, Edgell reduced the content of its canned corn because, as its director of quality and innovation (!) explained with a straight face, “there hadn’t been enough headspace” inside the cans, causing food safety issues. This airhead obviously has plenty of “headspace”. This is all part of an ongoing and expensive ACCC inquiry into an “environmental policy” and a “sustainability initiative”. Which means? Now that should be enough for an entire series of the ABC’s Gruen programs. And that is what “weasel words” are all about: Utopia. David Parmiter

It seems nobody can spell “lose” correctly. Lose is to misplace something, and loose is not tight. I taught myself as a kid how to know the difference. Loooooose (stretched) and lose, so now you know. Another thing that annoys me is people at the deli counter. They say “can I get 500g of whatever”. Perhaps it would be better to say “I’d like 500g of such and such”.

The other wording that really riles me is “oh my God”. For example, I watch 60 Minute Makeover and the recipient keeps saying it over and over. I mute the show! Vivien Wakefield

Loud and clear I am amused by Billie Marty’s suggestion that I take on board his (her?) concern about excessive background music on TV, because Billie has already said nearly all there is to say! He (she?) has my full support, and this is part of the reason – as well as my deafness – that I always have the subtitles on when watching TV. It’s not usually an option in a cinema where the sound is often turned up too high. Deaf people need clear enunciation, not volume. My TV whine is more directed against unsubtle advertising commercials that appear to think shouting and hectoring will convince us to buy a product or service. This immediately sends me looking for the mute button on the remote. Surely advertisers realise this sort of commercial is counter-productive?

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LETTERS The only other explanation must be that marketing managers have a low opinion of the intelligence of TV audiences. Please woo us with soft music, pretty pictures and polite, handsome actors! Ted Webber

Clarity is not really clear David Parmiter and Fran Davies are spot on with their comments on the incorrect use of grammar and language (Oct). I was once told by an educator friend that correct use of grammar is not a high priority in schools these days as long as the meaning is clear. For example, “there’s three apples in the bowl” should be “there are three apples in the bowl” but the grammar isn’t important because the meaning is clear. Everyone would know the bowl has three apples. If this is the thinking, let’s do away with grammar altogether. Also, I am constantly amazed by the number of people who don’t know the difference between “prostate” and “prostrate”. I’ve lost count of those who have told me poor old so-and-so has prostrate cancer. Out of politeness, I bite my tongue to avoid asking them “is that the cancer you have lying down?” Graham Miles

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TAKING A (ROAD) SIDE In response to Joyce Tozer: I was brought up in a country area where roads were rather primitive and footpaths not always existent. We were always taught to walk facing the oncoming traffic. It gave me little consolation that I would then be able to see whatever it was that was about to mow me down! However, I survived. On steps, we were also told to keep to the left as we marched into school, and this maintained order and avoided accidents – until the advent of the teacher who informed the students that those going up were to keep to the left, and those going down to keep to the right, and there was mayhem. Thus I cannot understand why the people Joyce kept bumping into on board ship were identified as Australians and New Zealanders as if we knew no better. This “keep to the left” rule also applied to walking on city footpaths,

NO NEED TO BE LONELY I was interested in your recent article re shopping and loneliness, and would like to mention a few things I personally have found were good for getting me out of the house. I am almost 84 years old and lead a busy life. We retired to Queensland just before I turned 70 and knew no one. My husband volunteered to help with Meals on Wheels, and through that met a charming man who offered to introduce him to some friends. This turned out to be the local bowls club, where he was welcomed and immediately joined. As soon as I found out, I too joined, and in no time had the beginning of

many new friendships. This game also provides quiet exercise in the open air while socialising. Keep moving! From there we heard about Probus clubs, which are principally for retired people so we joined the local one. We went on trips every month and in that way explored the Brisbane area and beyond, had lunches and dinners and a meeting with a speaker once a month. More friends. Then there is the Bridge Club. Check the local club for upcoming lessons, and have a go. I now LOVE bridge and play twice a week What about a new hobby or skill? Join U3A. Contact them or look on the website and you will find so many options. It costs little to become a member, and only $5 per attendance at the class you choose. Once again, I have met a new group of ladies and rekindled an old interest. I have almost every day filled if I want to, and am active, happy and involved. Try some or all of these ideas and start to live! Peita Grant

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Grieving mum becomes a woman with a mission Losing a child is every parent’s worst nightmare but ANGELA BENSTED reports that Gloria Steensen is refusing to be a victim, turning her grief into a campaign against alcohol-fuelled violence.

t’s not a story which can be told over just one pot of tea, so Gloria Steensen pops the kettle on for a second time and offers a plate of lemon Madeira cake before resuming. At the centre of the story is her 53-year-old son Bruce Steensen, who died in hospital just hours after a blow to his head late one night in February 2014. He was returning home after a night out at the Mooloolaba Surf Club with his partner and a mate when a man allegedly punched him, causing him to fall and hit his head on the footpath. Gloria and her husband John were woken in the early hours of Sunday morning with news of their son’s injuries and rushed from their home in Brisbane to Nambour General Hospital to be by his side. That long car trip was

“dreadful. Shocking.” Her son died a short time later. Since then, retired preschool teacher Gloria has barely given herself time to grieve, instead pouring her energy into a campaign to stop alcohol-fuelled violence. “If we can save lives then Bruce didn’t die in vain,” she says. She spent thousands of dollars from her own pocket to produce bar mats and coasters printed with her son’s words, “just let it go”. Simon Turner, from the Queensland Homicide Victim’s Support Group, believes this is a powerful phrase which will resonate with young people around Australia. He wants to build a bigger publicity campaign around it, including having signs in nightclubs and on the side of taxis.

wrong place at the wrong time,” she says. And the violence has a ripple effect. At Bruce Steensen’s funeral, Gloria asked for people to pray for the family of the man accused of killing her son. “His mother lost a son too,” Gloria says. “He’s only a kid. He hasn’t grown into his brain yet.” The funeral was held on the grass at Steensen’s “beloved football ground”, the Aspley Hornets. Gloria says she looked at the men standing around his coffin, many of whom she had known since they were kids, and thought to herself “this could be you”. As she drains the second pot of tea she murmurs, “if we could change the culture then I’d be over the moon.”

Gloria Steensen is mounting a campaign in memory of her son, Bruce.

“Gloria has real momentum and it needs to be supported,” Mr Turner says. Before her son was killed, Gloria was unaware of the extent of alcohol-fuelled acts

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The not-so-secret men’s business Men’s sheds are providing an outlet for the male species to hang out with the boys but as ANGELA BENSTED explains, there’s a lot more happening than sitting about having a chat – although that’s good too.

ost houses have one; a shed down the back. It’s always been a haven for blokes, an oasis where the male of the species is free to do as much (or as little) as he likes. Once the kids move on, however, the shed can be a lonely place – just another empty room promising projects but not companionship. And what is a bloke to do once the house is traded in for a unit and the tools handed down to the next generation? This is where the men’s shed movement is filling a gap, bringing men together to work on projects, to fix things, to learn new skills and sometimes just have a yarn. The Buderim Men’s Shed, at the old eye clinic on Mill Rd, started in 2011 with 50 men. Dr Bill Glasson and his wife Prof Claire Jackson donated the property for use by the group, which has grown to become one of the largest in the country with 260 members and 22

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potential health savings the group offers. “We have a very strong belief that sometimes just coming down to the shed for a cup of tea and a chat might save some men a trip to the doctor when they’re feeling down,” Barry says. He suggests women are better at joining clubs and being social in retirement. Men need a bit more encouragement. “More often than not it’s the wives and daughters bringing their husbands and dads along to make enquiries,” he says. “The blokes need a bit of a nudge.” For all the womenfolk wondering what the boys are really doing when they get together, the Buderim Men’s Shed is opening its doors to the public at 53 Mill Rd, Buderim, on Saturday, November 14, 8:30am–1pm with food, live music and members’ handiwork for purchase. More buderimmensshed.org

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Tapping into the great forests of the north The Moreton Bay settlement was expanding and the waterways between Brisbane and the North Coast were busy as sawmillers transported timbers that would build a city, writes historian AUDIENNE BLYTH.

Stone support for the flywheel of William Pettigrew’s Maroochydore Sawmill photographed in 1963. Courtesy Queensland State Library

hile Brisbane Tuff from the quarries around Kangaroo Point and Windsor kept the stonemasons happy building early Brisbane, it was the sawmilling entrepreneurs of the north coast, now

the Sunshine Coast, who supplied the timber. Rivers and lakes were the highways into the thick scrub and dense forests where cedar, beech and pine were eagerly sought.

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William Pettigrew, James Campbell and McGhie, Luya and Co became household names in the timber industry. Pettigrew, a Scot, had arrived at the Moreton Bay settlement in 1849. Working as a surveyor in the district and aware of the abundance of timber, he built Brisbane’s first steam sawmill in 1853. Until then, timber had been cut by pit sawyers. Other mills he built and owned were at Dundathu on the Mary River, the Union Sawmill at Maryborough and Maroochydore on the Maroochy River. His Brisbane mill burnt down twice and was rebuilt both times. The great floods of 1893 and 1898 also meant serious losses at all mills. Pettigrew’s Maroochydore mill was dependent on logs rafted down the Maroochy River and its tributaries. It opened the same year as the railway link, 1891. Pettigrew owned or had interests in a fleet of ships that delivered supplies

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William Pettigrew’s William St sawmill, established in 1853, was the first steam sawmill in Brisbane. Photographed in 1963.

flat-bottomed paddle steamers known as timber droghers. The Black Swan, Elandra and Alabama towed punts of sawn timber through the lakes to Tewantin, where the sawn timber was loaded on to the steamer, Culgoa bound for Brisbane. Culgoa made regular trips for 20 years until it was wrecked on the Noosa River bar in 1891. On the cold morning of July 29, 1873, one of the worst disasters in the history of Noosa hit the sawmilling settlement at Elanda Point. Mill workers were warming themselves before one of the mill’s boilers at about 8.30am when it was noticed that the boiler was beginning to bulge. They did not get clear before the explosion wrecked the boiler room.

Five men were fatally injured. It is said they still rest on warm Elanda Point overlooking Lake Cootharaba. The sawmill closed in 1892 although remnants can still be found on the banks of Lake Cootharaba. D.L.Brown’s Arakoon and Dath Henderson’s Adonis also regularly carried timber to Brisbane. Passengers to Gympie continued the journey by coach. Drayloads of sawn hardwood were taken to Gympie for the mining industry. James Campbell arrived in Brisbane in 1853. Like Pettigrew he was a sober and industrious Scot and established a building supplies business, the beginning of his empire. He built his first sawmill at Capalaba and the second of 10 sawmills on Coochin Creek in 1881. Previously, timber from the Blackall Range was hauled to a rafting ground on the creek, made into rafts and steered downstream to Pumicestone Passage. Little steamers or schooners towed the rafts from this sheltered waterway to Campbell’s Brisbane wharf. Campbell owned a fleet of ships. Many of them were delivering timber from the Mooloolah and Maroochy Rivers, Bribie and Coochin Creek on

View of the stone block which supported a crane for lifting logs from the water to be conveyed to William Pettigrew’s Maroochydore sawmill just upstream from present-day Wharf Street in Maroochydore. Courtesy Queensland State Library

the Sunshine Coast to Brisbane. A new paddle steamer, Mavis, delivered timber from 1883. Sometimes, valuable cargoes of logs were transhipped in Moreton Bay for southern states or overseas. Savvy with business, Campbell relocated the Coochin Creek mill machinery to establish a mill at Albion in Brisbane in 1890, as he realised the ever-expanding railway would change the way timber was transported.

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tide is rising against the latter practice. The good news is that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is onto it. It’s called “drip pricing” and remains a focus as part of the ACCC’s “current priority area of systemic consumer issues in the online marketplace”. It offers these tips to deal

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Members of the Blokes’ Book Club enjoy their first meeting.

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science fiction and thrillers,” founding member Graeme Page said. “It was a very interesting morning.” The Blokes’ Book Club will meet again on Monday, November 9, 10.30am at the Caloundra Powerboat Club. To join, call Tamarind Book Club convener Mary Barber on 0404 266 665.

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GARDENING

Putting the pot into “potager” A modern approach to the traditional French potager garden is to create the same effect with containers – and this, according to GARDENEZI. is now the In Thing to do.

potager garden is essentially a kitchen garden where herbs, vegetables and edible flowers are grown, though today it’s quite permissible to add some purely decorative annuals, perennials and bulb plants. Using pots instead of growing in-ground is a lot easier, especially in a subtropical climate. The pots can be moved around to suit the season and it’s a great way to use an area of poor soil without having to do a lot of expensive and laborious improvement. Odd corners and strips along a sunny wall are ideal. Buy a selection of containers to give your potager patch an interesting variation of height, widths and depths – to suit the equally varied plant needs. Colours and textures can

be varied too, or else chosen to match and perhaps create a particular effect – Mediterranean, Oriental, Balinese, English cottage to give just a few examples. This is a good opportunity to recycle odd and old containers or go searching around the thrift shops and junkyards. Outmoded laundry sinks, bathtubs, zinc washtubs and cooking pots give a funky effect that suits potager growing very well. Just fill them with potting mix, ensure good drainage and tend your plants as you would in any other kind of garden – watering, fertilising but – thanks to the delights of pot-growing, no weeding. And what you’ll have is a charming collection of edible and decorative plants that look as good as they taste and require very little care except

A small section of a subtropical potager garden, combining pots with in-ground growing and making use of a narrow section between house wall and side fence. Contents include tarragon, dill, tomatoes, lettuce, petunias, pansies, chillies, basil, rosemary, thyme, salvia and culinary sage.

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n enduring power of attorney is a legal agreement giving someone else the power to make personal/health and/or financial decisions on your behalf. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Enduringâ&#x20AC;? simply means that the power continues even if you lose the capacity to make the decisions yourself. You are considered to have lost capacity to make a decision if you cannot understand the nature and effect of a decision, or if you are unable to communicate a decision in some way. Why give someone the power? If you are unable to make decisions for yourself, for example due to illness or

being overseas, giving someone an enduring power of attorney means that your wishes will be carried out. Your attorney will have the power to make decisions in your best interests and to sign any necessary documents on your behalf. What happens if I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have an enduring power of attorney? Someone would have to make an application to the Guardianship and Administration Tribunal to be able to manage your affairs. The Public Trustee may be required to step in to make financial decisions for you. Health matters would be decided by your â&#x20AC;&#x153;statutory health attorneyâ&#x20AC;?. This could be your spouse, a carer, a close friend, or other relative. What types of decisions

would my attorney make? For personal care matters, your attorney decides issues such as where you will live and your day-to-day circumstances. For health care, all issues up to and including withholding or withdrawing life sustaining treatment, taking into account your wishes and actions that contribute to your health and wellbeing. For financial matters, your attorney would look after your banking, pay your bills, and make investment decisions. They cannot give away your assets or join your assets to theirs unless they were already jointly owned. Your attorney does not have the power to make decisions about â&#x20AC;&#x153;specialâ&#x20AC;?

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you don’t continue to exercise the little grey cells with new information. How do I exercise my brain? I hear you ask. Reading this is a start and look, no pain or strained muscles. Let’s clear away those cerebral cobwebs with a few simple exercises. Wisdom: You can have it home delivered in a variety of ways – newspapers, interesting magazines, try watching some “smart television” not the rubbish that makes the advertising look great but programs that teach and stretch your mind and stimulate you to try new things. Become interested in the internet. STOP, don’t say it, you are not too old. Computers are just plastic and wires and funny technical bits but who cares, you have the ability to turn the thing off

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HEALTH

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BOOK REVIEW

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The author captures the quintessential era of the Southern Belle with the portrayal of Aunt Alexander with her corsetted dresses and her continuing belief in tradition. As for the daughter of Atticus Finch, Jean Louise, recently arrived from New York, she is not quite sure where she belongs and so the story begins. We meet Atticus, now an arthritic 70-year-old, Uncle Jack, Henry, Seth and last but certainly not least, Carpurnia. The first part of the book is beautifully written and totally engaged this reader. The latter part of the book became a ramble. The characters seemed to be submerged by the author’s need to push a solution to the racial problems in the Deep South.

TONY HARRINGTON

Harper Lee’s interesting novel offers excellent insights into her family’s attitudes towards the black community in southern Alabama in the 1950s. This novel is a good companion for her famous first novel To Kill a Mockingbird. Jean Louise Finch, the main character, now 26 and living in New York, sees herself as a modern independent woman in an age when Southern women were subservient homemakers. She comes home for a holiday and finally realises the disturbing truth that her father, her fiancee, her family and townfolk remain racist and segregationalist. Watchman is the biblical term for your conscience (Isaiah 21:6) which she finally clears through conflict with her beloved father and family. I can see why this novel wasn’t released when it was written because it was very critical of her father, her family, her home state and country. Not a very American thing to do in the 1950s! This is a very enjoyable and well written novel 8/10

BOOK review JOHN KLEINSCHMIDT I have not read To Kill A Mockingbird so my thoughts are only about Go Set A Watchman. I found the story dull and meandering until Jean Louise discovers that her father is not the gentleman and advocate for equality and against racism that she had so proudly believed he was. Her reaction, or perhaps overreaction, to discovering that Atticus had failings and particularly his support for racial segregation and belief in the inferiority of African Americans breathed life into the book. The story leaves no doubt that in the early to mid 1900s white communities in America’s South held racist views that are almost universally accepted as abhorrent today. Might have been a better read 50 years ago when the theme was far more relevant.

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Written before her 1960 Pulitzer-prize winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird, Go Set a Watchman was discovered decades later and only published this year. Jean Louise Finch, “Scout”, returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil, her homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town, and the people dearest to her. Memories of her childhood flood back, and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt. Featuring many of the iconic characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, it captures a young woman, and a world, in painful yet necessary transition – a journey that can only be guided by one’s own conscience.

I came to this novel with some hesitancy because I still hold To Kill a Mockingbird with such great affection. It was and is for me an “eye opening” book. Therefore, I questioned the relevancy and need, 40 years later, to publish Harper Lee’s original and initially rejected manuscript which covers the same ground. What story could be told in Go Set A Watchman that hadn’t already been told in the award-winning classic? So, did I enjoy this book? If the reader comes to it never having read Mockingbird , it may be an interesting pathway to life in the American South during the Depression era. However, if, like me, Lee’s characters and events are so firmly in place, any revisiting of the narrative may risk diminishing a cherished literary icon.

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I brought to this book my memories of other books and movies set in the southern states of the USA and the good credit that I had for Harper Lee. In fact, this credit took me through the first 80 pages when not a lot was happening. I enjoyed the fast dialogue and Scout’s fiery nature. The characters are well-drawn and there are not too many of them. Scout comes into conflict with just about everyone as she struggles to find her way and assert her independence. Ultimately, a very good read. Stick with it.

For me this was a slow, pondering and strangely compelling story. Although there were flashbacks (often humorous) which gave me insight into the childhood of the main character, Scout, I enjoyed approaching this novel as a work on its own. For me it was a vivid and challenging portrayal of Scout’s challenges to make sense of the changes in herself and the changes she perceived in her beloved Atticus and others close to her. It was a painful coming of age for Scout, with a victorious realisation that she was finally her own person in possession of her own conscience or ‘watchman’. I enjoyed this novel and have renewed admiration for Harper Lee who wrote with insight and authority.

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GET READY TO SNAP, CRACKLE AND POP ON NEW YEAR’S EVE The Queensland Pops Orchestra’s 2015 New Year’s Eve Gala concert is a first-class ticket on an exhilarating musical journey to usher in 2016. Along for the ride is a stellar line-up of some of Australia’s most revered artists. Special guest stars Silvie Paladino, Jason Barry-Smith and Cherin Lee have a superb line-up of songs, arias and violin masterpieces from the greatest composers of opera, musical theatre and popular classical music. Conductor/music director Patrick Pickett will present both traditional and an exciting new repertoire for this New Year’s Eve program, a muchanticipated annual event for more than 30 years. Paladino wowed audiences at her last appearance with the Pops, in one of

the most acclaimed Pops concerts ever, Broadway Spectacular, in 2013. Joining her in the scene-stealing stakes is one of Brisbane’s best-loved and gifted performing artists, BarrySmith. Virtuoso violinist Lee completes this triptych of talent, adding the “wow” factor to the spectacular New Year’s Eve celebration concert. A Year 9 student, she has already won countless awards and performed the Tchaikovsky violin concerto with the QSO. An orchestra that loves the music it plays and the joy it brings, the Queensland Pops Orchestra promises another unforgettable night of colourful, superlative music to usher in the new year. QPAC Concert Hall,Thursday December 31, 9.30pm. Book now.

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Social connection and new skills are promised at the Inside/ Outside Feeling Great workshops coming up at Cooroy Library. The first workshop, presented by Deb, a Louise Hay Heal Your Life Coach, looks at discovering happiness now, to feel positive and inspired every day. The second workshop is by Cat, a personal stylist, feel confident and happy with your appearance.

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CELEBRATE ST ANDREWS DAY The Buderim Male Choir invites all Scots and those who appreciate Scottish music to a St Andrew’s day celebration concert bringing all the Celtic favourites. The program will include favourites Loch Lomond, Scotland the Brave, Song of Clyde, The Skye Boat Song with guest piper Ritchie Wallace and soloist Jim Gordon. Three songs have the exclusive approval for this concert from James S. Kerr Publishers of Glasgow. Part of the proceeds will support Cittamani Hospice Service which provides specialist palliative care at home but relies on donations for about half of running costs. St Marks Anglican Church, Buderim Sunday, November 29, 2pm. Tickets $15, at the door or call 5456 4473.

Hate, anger, revenge, despair, resentment, and vengeance – the emotions that Antonio Salieri rolls through in the course of telling his last confessional in Amadeus. The story is of his plot against God’s chosen instrument on earth, The Magic Flute, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Salieri’s story is one that has often been told as the brutal rivalry between musicians which is timeless and has, occasionally, proved fatal to one of the rivals. Amadeus stars Stephen Moore as Salieri, Matthew Payne as Mozart, and Marina De Jager as Constanze. Directed by Sean McBride, the Lind Lane production of Amadeus will be for six performances only. The Lind Theatre, Nambour November 7 opening night, then Wednesday 11-Saturday 14, 8pm. Matinee Sunday 8, 2pm. Tickets $30 evening, $25 matinee. Call 1300 732 764 or visit lindlane.com.au.

VIRTUOSO VIOLINIST A RARE TREAT Violinist Attilla Sautov will be performing with members of the Australian Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra (AVCO) on his Spring Tour. AVCO aims to showcase Australian and International virtuosi soloists, as well as some of Australia’s most talented orchestral musicians. A child prodigy in Uzbekistan who became a virtuoso violinist, Sautov will be accompanied by chamber musicians from the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane, on violin, viola, cello and double bass. He will also be joined by lyric soprano, Anna Butterworth as they perform some of the most powerful, impassioned and colourful music in the solo violin and voice repertoire. Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Noosaville, November 28, 3pm Maleny Community Centre, Maleny, November 29, 11am, 3pm. Tickets: attillasautov.com or phone 136 100.

Entertainment, culture and a luscious afternoon tea will be offered at a fundraiser for the Coolum HeARTS. Star will be MP Fiona Simpson who will perform on stage and also unveil her portrait by artist Clive Holden which is up for the 2016 Archibald prize. Other performers will include the Coolum HeARTs choir I’m Still Standing, and “heart beats” drumming group and Coolum classical guitar quartet, Cool Harmonies. There will be an art show and auction at 3pm. Coolum Civic Centre. Sunday November 1, 1pm-5pm. Entry $5. Details Barb 5446 3553.

JAZZ STAR AT THE BISON The voice behind countless Australian and international television and radio advertisements, including Channel 7’s Love You Queensland, Renae Suttie, is coming to Nambour’s Bison Bar. Along with three of the Sunshine Coast’s most sought-after session musicians, Renae will present a selection of jazz originals and favourites. Booking is advisable. Bison Bar, Cententary Square, Nambour. November 29, 3pm. Tickets $15 online at trybooking.com/IYNY.

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MOTORING

Potential for a blue over the powder blue Motoring writer KATE CALLAHAN recalls the days when buying a new car was a major family decision â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and the colour mattered too.

o you remember a time, long ago, when buying a new car was a rare and special event? In 1963, my parents, dairy farmers in the verdant hills of the Sunshine Coast hinterland, decided to take the plunge and buy a new car. This was a major spending decision for Mum and Dad â&#x20AC;&#x201C; huge in fact. They came from the old school. They had both grown up during the Great Depression and Dad had been a prisoner of war in Changi. Although World War II had finished 18 years before, frugality was ingrained in the fabric of their being. Mum saved buttons, brown paper and string, and turned Dadâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worn out trousers into shorts for my older brothers. Dad grew vegetables and every year at Christmas time, he bought a solitary bottle of lemon cordial for us

kids and one bottle of beer (a tall neck) for himself and Mum. They never borrowed a cent â&#x20AC;&#x201C; or a penny, I should say, as these were pre-decimal currency days. Money was hard earned and carefully saved for a rainy day. Spending decisions were made cautiously â&#x20AC;&#x201C; and they always paid cash. So when the day came for Dad to go to town to buy the new car, there was great excitement in the household. As Dad was leaving, he turned to Mum and asked what sort of car she would like. Although I was only six, this seemed like a particularly silly question to me. We all knew Mum could not drive. She had given up driving when we moved from the plains of western Queensland to the mountains of

Montville, so what difference would it make to Mum? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anything but blueâ&#x20AC;?, Mum replied, and her beautiful blue eyes sparkled with anticipation. Dad returned later that day, sitting tall behind the wheel of a brand new and very blue Ford Zephyr 6 mk 111 sedan.

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MOTORING calendar year, 862,832 vehicles were sold, an increase of 110,000 over the same period in 2011. That’s a lot of new cars in a country with a population of just 23.5 million people. For the month of September alone, Australian dealers sold 101,392 vehicles, up from 94,978 for the same period last year. But for reasons perhaps only an economist could answer, sales were very strong in Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria and weak in the rest of the country. Not surprisingly, sales of SUVs continue to account for the biggest chunk of growth with 36,968 units sold in September, an impressive increase of 23 per cent. Sales of ordinary passenger vehicles remained stable at 36,968 units and light commercials dropped by 9 per cent to 15,476. Although Toyota sales dropped by 7 per cent in September, it is still the market leader (16,594), a country mile ahead of Mazda (10,864), Holden (9326) and Hyundai (9311), Mitsubishi (6937), Ford (5823), Nissan (5242), Volkswagen (5124), Subaru (3621) and Honda (3595). Not to be outdone, luxury car sales

also surged in September, led by Mercedes-Benz (3381), BMW (2408), Audi (2048), Porsche (487) and Volvo (449). News was not so good for the Fiat Chrysler Australia conglomerate. Sales of Jeep, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Dodge and Chrysler dropped substantially in September. Citroen and Renault also fell from favour.

“Popular new cars become popular used cars so if resale value is important check the sales figures for what’s hot and what’s not” So what’s driving the spike in new car sales? The $20,000 tax incentive offered to small businesses in the last Federal Budget must have something to do with it, particularly with SUVs. But market analysts insist that the major driver is low interest rates.

It seems that when money is cheap, new cars are high on the spending agenda of many Australians. But that is not the end of the story. Most new cars are sold as replacement vehicles, which means there will be an influx of new entrants into the used car market. More particularly, if you are in the market for your dream car, booming luxury car sales suggest that there will be plenty of used Porsches, Mercs and BMWs around too. Buying a used car is a good way of avoiding Luxury Car Tax. If you are thinking of buying a new car, take a good look at the last six months’ sales figures. They can be quite revealing. As a rule of thumb, popular new cars become popular used cars, so if resale value is important to you – and of course it is – check the sales figures for what’s hot and what’s not. The blue Zephyr Dad brought home that day in 1963 had a long and happy life on the farm. It was replaced eventually with a Ford Cortina, also powder blue, though Dad did not repeat his mistake by asking Mum again what sort of car she would like.

TOP TEN models September 2015: 1. Hyundai i30 — 4490 vehicles sold, 5170 if you include the Elantra sedan 2. Mazda 3 — 3588 3. Toyota Corolla — 3530 4. Toyota Camry — 2522 5. Ford Ranger — 2471 6. Holden Commodore — 2348 or 2710 if you include the ute 7. Mazda CX-5 — 2321 8. Mitsubishi Triton — 2020 9. Toyota Hilux — 2001 10. Volkswagen Golf — 1958

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK My thanks to all the readers who have sent feedback and comments. If you have an idea for a column, a motoring story to tell, or you just want to have your say, I would love to hear from you. Email me kate@ yourtimemagazine.com.au or write to Kate Callahan, Your Time Magazine, PO Box 6362, Maroochydore BC 4558.

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So different it seems a world away and yet so near Sometimes, there are places right under your nose that take you to another whole world, and DOT WHITTINGTON finds the Scenic Rim is one of them.

leisurely hour’s drive west of Brisbane (although you could saunter down the inland route via Somerset Dam) the Scenic Rim is Brisbane’s answer to Sydney’s Blue Mountains or Melbourne’s Dandenongs. Basically, head towards Ipswich then continue south, to the authentic country town of Boonah, population 4000. It’s a precocious little place with its Back to the Future main street, High Street, complete with Glen’s Diner, brick and timber facades, angle parking and a department store that opened in 1944. First known as Blumbergville after being founded by the Blumberg brothers in 1882, it now has “Boonah” standing up on a hill like the Hollywood sign. On the outskirts of town is a giant metal Clydesdale sculpture built in 2003 by Andrew Scott who further refined his style when he returned home to Scotland to build the mighty 30m high Kelpies that opened in Falkirk last year. Five minutes out of town is the Dugandan Hotel, a country pub that says it has been providing good times since 1886, which could be a slight exaggeration as it opened as a general store and didn’t become a pub until 1913. That, though, is all academic. It’s another piece of quintessential country, with encircling verandahs and a magnificent old fig tree throwing shade over the beer garden.

Boonah’s Clydesdale.

From there, head off to wineries. The Kooroomba Vineyard and Lavendar Farm has about 10,000 lavendar bushes but it’s the vineyard that matters and both, happily settled under the rim of distant peaks, seem most un-Queensland-like. A former cattle property, it now has regular wine tastings in a dramatic stone building that would look quite at home in the Barossa and has won numerous architectural awards in the 12 years since it was built. The harvest is sent to a distillery 160km southwest at Ballandean. Although Kooroomba does a cab sav its whites – chardonnay, vermentino and Alba that’s as sweet as any Verdelho, are special. The store where oils, soaps, pot pourri and even teddies, tea and honey all have a lavender flavour, is adjacent. Despite great mountains and broad landscapes giving a sense of isolation, it really isn’t that far by road to the Bunjurgen Estate Vineyard which Dave McMaugh bought as a paddock full of stumps in 2000.

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The first of 2500 vines were planted in 2003 and Dave is proud of his awardwinning roses, medium red, whites and cherry and ruby ports coming from his prized Chambourcin and Shiraz grapes. A brown chook struts past as Dave pours a glass of rose and brings out a cheese platter on a high point of the property. The Scenic Rim gives a choice of accommodation from camping to the top of the range Bunyip Scenic Rim Resort, which you would never find unless you were looking. It is unquestionably worth finding, a perfect getaway that is not your average B&B.

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Pitch up at Port Parham, you won’t be disappointed Grey nomad BEVERLEY EVERSON recommends a stop at a tidy little free camp in South Australia to go crabbing and hear a good yarn.

t Dublin on the A1 just one hour north of Adelaide on the St Vincent’s Gulf, turn left and find your way to the little seaside village of Parham. It’s known as a top crabbing beach and has access to the Gulf’s many fishing spots. The tide recedes for miles in the gulf and the local fishermen in Parham have come up with an ingenious, motorised contraption called a “jinker” that allows them to launch their boats from the beach in the shallow waters at any time of the tide. I have seen tractors launch boats in Queensland coastal areas where the sand is just too soft for a regular 4WD but these little jinkers are built to retrieve fishing boats miles offshore. They simply drive through the shallow water out to meet the deep. It is as good as crowd watching to sit and simply observe these inventive Mad Max-type vehicles come and go with the tide. We camped at Parham campground

behind the low dunes with many other caravan and motor home travellers. Apparently it is one of the top free camps in SA and by the number of people camped there, it certainly isn’t a secret. It is always good to make the effort to chat to fellow travellers as it is an opportunity to learn many tricks that don’t make it into print. The locals and council ensure that the campground is kept tidy and clean and it has toilets as well as some taps to top up water tanks. There are no shops in Parham to purchase petrol, groceries or even milk and bread. One important thing we have learnt travelling is that you can easily be caught. Lots of places don’t even have the basics. What Parham lacks in basic supplies is covered by nearby Dublin which has fuel and fresh fruit and vegies. Locals fundraised and built the Port Parham Sports and Social Club in the 1980s. It is open to all the community and the travelling public on

A Port Parham jinker makes it way across sand and shallow water.

Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 5pm and Sunday from 4pm to 8pm. Dinner is available each night and there are light meals on Wednesday and Sunday. The locals certainly make you welcome and are always up for a chat while you enjoy a meal and a coldie. These small towns really seem to appreciate the financial support which comes with the grey nomads.

So, back to Parham and crabbing. As Queenslanders, we are familiar with dropping the crab pot off the side of the tinnie but in South Australia, it’s a whole different ball game. It is called raking for crabs. Armed with a rake and bucket (for the big catch), we set off down to the water (reef shoes are advisable). With a local willing to show how it really is done,

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TRAVEL we hit the beach on the receding tide and worked the water channels. The rake isn’t quite the normal garden variety, but similar. In no time we had our first blue swimmer and expectations were high. Care is needed along the channels as they can get very soft with silt under the sand. Within hours, the bucket was full and there was no bag limit. Back at the camp we boiled up the catch and shared a crab sandwich – yum! For the history buffs, Port Parham was surveyed in about 1870 and is named after John Parham, a local farmer, who brought in his grain to be loaded on ketches for shipment to Port Adelaide. The port has never had a jetty or wharf, but gained port status with a number of other St Vincent Gulf ports because flat bottomed ketches were able to float in on the high tide and settle on the bottom when it receded. This meant they could be loaded from drays or trucks driven out to where they had settled. The practice continued at Port Parham from about 1870 to the late 1940s. Families from all over SA have been coming to Parham for holidays since the 1850s. There were few buildings before World War II, and most of those were to service the grain trade. After 1945, holiday shacks started to appear. Today, Port Parham and Webbs Beach have about 350 dwellings, many of them vacant most of the time but filling up during holiday times. There is another story to Port Parham. The area was the subject of national security as the defence department had been testing munitions in the mud flats since 1929. It covers an area from Pt Wakefield to Two Wells with Parham, allocated to the army in 1937, slap bang in the middle. Restrictions meant no building over 15ft but that changed in the 1970s

when some stylish homes were built. The army fired at high tide and retrieved munitions at low tide. Consequently not all were found and the area is littered with unexploded ammunition. In July 1983, the defence department wanted to extend its operations, an idea which obviously didn’t impress the residents, some of whom had been there for decades. Residents didn’t want their area contaminated for all time and the army admitted it would never be able to clear the mudflats of unexploded material. The protests were a running battle for four years and many meetings were held at the old social club (grain store). Signs appeared on fences and roofs – my few favourites were “P*ss off Army”, “We have enough shells” and “People before guns”. Hats, stickers, shirts and beer coolers came out with the slogans “Save the crabbers and the Gulf” and “Save the crabbers from the army shells”. A compromise was reached and ultimately 2900 ha was acquired, including 16 farms and two houses inland. Port Parham gave up 2kms of land and survived and thrived. Power to the people. Every place has a story. You just have to look for it.

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Look below the surface for a whole new view of London Even when you think you have seen everything that the English capital has to offer, there is still more waiting to be discovered.

hen you’ve finished walking the Monopoly board that is London, there is a whole other city awaiting – underground. From historic catacombs, to lime mines, arty tunnels and underground museums, London’s subterranean world is waiting to be explored. And there’s no better place to start than with the Underground itself. London’s tube network is the oldest underground system in the world, built in 1863 with the Metropolitan line. Since then, it has become an intricate system linking all corners of

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the city. There are more than 400km of tracks below ground and each station is unique. Some of the more impressive bear intricate decorations and tiles, such as the Sherlock Holmes theme at Baker Street, or the British Pop Art at Tottenham Court Road. During the Blitz of World War II, these underground tunnels were used as bomb shelters, so consider they actually had people living in these tunnels during the 1940s. CHURCHILL WAR ROOMS One of the most popular museums in London is the Churchill War Rooms Museum, a bunker and series of secret underground rooms at the basement of the New Public Office, behind Westminster, Houses of Parliament. This is where Sir Winston Churchill ran the country during the World War II and the great leader actually lived there himself for a time. This museum is a fascinating insight into the British war effort and into

Leake St. (Photo: Chris Lloyd)

Churchill’s time as prime minister. Visitors can learn through documents, personal artefacts, interactive displays and media, more about what life was like in London during the Blitz and the war years. CHISLEHURST CAVES Just outside London, in Kent, are the Chislehurst Caves – 32km of passageways underground. These tunnels were used to mine flint and lime for thousands of years, back to times of the Druids and Romans. Mining stopped only in the 1830s. Today you can take a guided tour

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If you fancy walking underneath the River Thames, the entrance to the Greenwich side is near the historic Cutty Sark and the northern entrance is in a park called Island Gardens on the Isle of Dogs. It’s open 24 hours a day thanks to being classified by law as a public highway. CAMDEN CATACOMBS As if you need another reason to visit the quirky borough of Camden, aside from the vintage market, Stables and brilliant cultural diversity, Camden is also home to its own catacombs. A maze of passages, tunnels and chambers runs beneath the market stalls, dating back to the 19th century. Although these catacombs are not open to the public, you can access them

Churchill’s war rooms (Photo: Tom Bullock)

Nestled just off Villiers St on the way to Embankment, it’s London’s oldest wine cellar. It can be found down a set of wooden steps leading to a candle-lit, vaulted ceiling cellar – beware, you have to stoop! Before becoming Gordon’s Wine Bar as we know it, the building was home to the famous diarist Samuel Pepys in the 1680s so it’s steeped in history. It’s now a hotspot for Londoners who seek out their range of wines and delicious cheese platters for an after-

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

PERMUTATE

ACROSS 1 Stress 9 Anger 10 Surface measurement 12 Frightens 13 Long, feathery scarves 14 Body part 15 Those not believing in God 18 Fulﬁlled 19 Crazier (informal) 22 Underground railway system in Paris 24 Female children 26 Left out 29 Burn 30 Unable to fend for oneself

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