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Nourish yourself with creative spirit CREATIVITY is the key to longevity, it can nourish the soul and feed the spirit.

Creativity is enjoyed in many forms – from woodworking to dressmaking to cake baking and dancing, The Oxford dictionary defines creativity as: The use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness.

In other words, the place where the mind steps off the process line and begins its own thinking.

Staid, is not part of the creative equation.

So, in this issue, with plenty of evidence to show the benefits, I encourage you to rearrange the furniture of your mind and make way for the new, the fresh, the imaginative and creative.

My desire to give the finest example of creative is expressed in the choice of our wondrous cover personality; a dancer, choreographer, designer, artist and poet Eileen Framer.

FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK GAIL FORRER

Group editor Seniors Newspapers network

At nearly 103-years-old, she is extraordinary, dynamic, gentle and perhaps even lucky to reach this age with such apparent beauty and grace of mind and body.

Fortunately, we are gifted with her desire to share her life story of creativity with us.

Eileen was born in the Sydney suburb of Mosman Bay. She began her dance studies with Gertrud Bodenweiser at age 22.

Bodenweiser, German dancer and choreographer arrived in Australian in 1939 and went onto found a company based on German expressionist dance.

Eileen toured with the company for 10 years. She then travelled the world and spent the last 20 years in the USA.

At 99-years-old Eileen missed her birthplace and came back to Australia.

These days, the world is home to an ever-growing number of centenarians.

In Japan, it has been reported there are now more than 65,000 centenarians.

It is simply not Eileen’s age that is impressive, it is her artistic mind and movement.

It is, as CEO of Arts Health Australia Dr Maggie Haertsch said, her ability to challenge ageing stereotypes.

“Dancing,” Eileen said.

“Psychologically strengthens me.”

Since back in Australia, Eileen has danced and choreographed at the Independent Theatre Sydney, featured in music videos, performed on stage, collaborated with an Australian fashion designer and given movement workshops.

No wonder Westpac and the Australian Financial Review announced her as a winner in the 100 Women of Influence

Awards 2016.

In this edition, we also speak to two of Australia’s leading Art Health proponents – CEO of Arts Health Australia Dr Maggie Haertsch and Dr Margret Meagher, founding Executive Director of Arts and Health Australia, the national advocacy and networking organisation dedicated to promoting the positive impact of the arts and creative expression on health and wellbeing.

We also catch up with Senior Australian of the Year Sister Anne Gardiner and speak with her about her inspirational life mission and the work that has been carried outsince her award. In terms of your finances, dont miss a timely article about your digital assets - yes, if you’re on facebook you have a digital asset.

I trust you enjoy reading about the people and industries that are changing the face of ageing in Australia.

— Gail

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Cover Story: Eileen Kramer

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Mastering the art of fine living

By Yvonne Gardiner

EILEEN Kramer, at the age of 102, throws a completely different perspective on the notion that age is a “limiting factor”.

“She’s just really special,” Arts Health Institute’s co-founder and chief executive Dr Maggie Haertsch, said of the institute’s lively and independent ambassador.

“Our whole focus is around improving the quality of life for older people; she personifies that,” Maggie said.

A mutually rewarding relationship exists between Eileen and the institute – she continues to be creative, and helps with staging and art supplies.

“She comes to our events as well where she basically is able to engage her audience,” Maggie said. “She doesn’t like the word ‘aged’, she prefers to say she’s been on the planet a long time.

“Eileen enjoys being around other generations.

She’s hip and groovy, and has a beautiful way of living.

“She’s a great inspiration for everybody,” she said. “Ageing is thought of as a condition of life, but actually it’s just ‘life’.

“It’s about embracing it and loving it and not seeing that anything gets in the way.

“That’s the key, it’s attitudinal. It’s about keeping on creating and having something that’s meaningful.

“The arts and health together is the art of living well.

“Using imagination and the arts helps frame your identity and there’s something magical about the arts – they’re deeply rooted in our primal selves.”

Maggie, an academic, nurse and midwife, proud grandmother and “half Eileen’s age”, is on a mission to improve quality of life as people age. In 2015, she was a finalist in the United Nations Australian Association’s Media Peace Prize Awards for her work promoting positive images of ageing, and in the same year she was recognised as one of the 100 Women of

Dr Maggie Haertsch.

FULL OF LIFE: Eileen Kramer is hip and groovy enjoying the stunning Uluru sunset.

Influence in Australia.

“I’ve always felt that aged care services is about enablement,” she said.

“Aged care services have to change. It’s no longer clinical, it’s about

how you live well.

“I know you don’t thrive when you’re older when you’re not doing something that’s meaningful and has purpose. And when you’ve got choice.

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“For me, I’m not interested in retirement while I’ve got something to give and contribute to the world.”

The six-year-old institute operates on the east coast of Australia, up to

the Sunshine Coast and down to Hobart.

“It’s going strong. We work with aged care providers and in the health system,” Maggie said. “Where we need to be, is to make what we do mainstream.

“What we do is therapeutic. We’re a registered charity and a social enterprise.

“We’re also a major employer of artists; they’re professional highly skilled extraordinary artists. There’s a lot of work to be done; we’ve got a big mission.”

For more: www.arts healthinstitute.org.au.

The inner stillness of Eileen IF ANYONE embodies the vivacity of life after 100, that lady is Eileen Kramer.

After 80 years as a dancer, energetic Eileen is still performing and choreographing ballet dance productions.

Her gentle nature and graceful poise has been captured in a recent portrait, The inner stillness of Eileen Kramer, which has emerged as one of 43 finalists in the 2017 Archibald Prize.

Artist Andrew Lloyd Greensmith, a plastic surgeon, says Eileen at 102 years of age embodies beauty as that intangible thing which

cannot be fixed on the surface nor defeated by the wear and tear of age.

“In the short time I spent with Eileen, I felt that she exudes a sense of inner stillness and is very much at ease with the world, her life and her craft,” he said.

Eileen thought the portrait had a “good chance” of winning the prize.

“He’s (the artist) very pleased about it and so am I,” she said.

“Usually I don’t like realism, but I like this one very much.

“It also looks

expressive.”

Eileen’s talents go far beyond dancing. She writes, designs costumes for her productions and studied painting.

“In Paris, I was earning my living as an artist’s model so I learnt a lot from that,” she said.

She has also experienced life in India, London and New York, returning just three years ago to her birthplace Sydney – a city she describes as “absolutely fascinating” with its historical inner city.

It was in India 60 years ago where she imagined her latest ballet work, the

Buddha’s Wife.

This will be performed in November, and crowdfunding for the project will begin soon.

“When I came to Australia I became ambassador for the Arts Health Institute so I had a good backing from these people,” Eileen said.

“As ambassador, I create ballet dance works and we try to have performances several times a year.

“I’ve actually performed the Buddha’s Wife in the United States.

“I dance with the upper body so I’m able to still entertain people.

PHOTO: CYBELE MALINOWSKI

“I’m interested in choreographing big dance works.

“In the dance company that I belonged to in America, we had quite a mix of dancers.

“I don’t think in ages, I just like anyone who can

do what I ask them to do.”

Eileen personifies the concept of creativity as a key to longevity and a full, rich life.

She is the world’s oldest working dancer/ choreographer as well as a poet and artist.

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Creative Ageing

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Secret ingredient of a power-packed age THE arts are like chocolate for the brain.

It’s a captivating image, and one that caught the imagination of Margret Meagher, who would go on to establish the Australian Centre for Arts and Health.

She’s deeply involved in the concept of Creative Ageing and how the arts can have a powerful positive impact on the mental and physical health of older people.

A US study across three cities and four years found that engagement in the arts – that is actively taking part, not just listening to music or watching a movie – increases confidence and self-esteem, reduces the length of hospital stays and reliance on medication, improves heart and respiratory function and even results in less falls.

Margret believes this is a combination of activity, the sense of achievement and mastery involved (often unavailable to seniors), as well as the social connections made.

And socialising is vital.

“A research paper in the US made the statement that loneliness is more detrimental to health and wellbeing than smoking 15 cigarettes a day, and is more likely to usher in an early death,” Margret said.

“Older people often feel quite invisible.”

This can be overcome by participation in the community, for instance, singing as part of a choir – a growing pastime worldwide – creating

something of beauty for others to appreciate.

Margret also strongly believes in the need for interconnection between generations, with old and young taking part in a knowledge transfer, for instance older people teaching the young knitting or other crafts and the young, in turn, teaching them how to use technology.

“These interconnections are really important because one of the biggest issues of getting older is ageism, which is pervasive across Western society,” she said.

“We need to recognise that older people have extensive wisdom, experience and knowledge and find a way to unlock that asset and encourage older people to recognise what they have to offer is valuable.”

This changing of perceptions is part of Margret’s work with the NSW Government Ministerial Advisory Committee on Ageing, and includes altering people’s approach to the elderly so they are not doing things “for” but “with” older people.

She believes local government has a “massive role to play in the way older people live their lives”.

As the custodians of

CREATIVE AGEING: Australian Centre for Arts and Health patron and former NSW Governor Dame Marie Bashir with ACAH founding director Margret Meagher; and (inset) OMA, the mascot for the Creative Ageing Festivals, has won a heart in Margret Meagher’s granddaughter, Fife.

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libraries, community centres, art galleries, museums and more, she believes it is incumbent on them to ensure older people have access to these activities.

That is where ageing needs to be thought of from a whole-of-government perspective, with transport links and access to the arts and services vital.

“The older population is increasing exponentially and we are coming to the point where there will be more older people in the

world than young, which has massive social and financial implications, particularly with a commensurate increase in the incidence of dementia,” Margret said.

“There is no known cure for dementia, but the evidence is clear that engagement in creative activities can have a major impact on people’s quality of life.”

Hence the need to change another preconception, the idea that arts is an elitist activity.

And, Margret pointed out, involvement in the arts does not have to be expensive – joining a choir, an art or craft group, woodwork or a book club, going dancing, joining U3A or a community group

involves only a minimal outlay.

“The sadness is that when people get older they tend to drop away from engagement in the arts, particularly after 75, because they are reluctant to go out at night or to go out alone,” she said.

The Creative Ageing Festival, which Margret instigated three years ago, came up with a Cultural Companions program, whereby people reluctant to go out alone can pal up with others, giving them confidence to go out, and overcoming associated problems such as transport and geographical distance.

“The case for arts in relation to health is very clear, and people in

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Prominent gerontologist, the late Dr Gene Cohen, presented the business case for the arts almost a decade ago, finding the financial savings to government amounted to millions on the basis of reduced reliance on medication alone.

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“Finding the right provider can be daunting for both the person in need of support and the family.”

Mrs Pryse Lloyd encourages clients to ask potential providers about the following issues before engaging a provider.

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Speaking to someone or going online to look for reviews is important to determining the appropriateness of a provider.

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Can you help out our radio?

By Alison Houston

THE stars are coming out to play in a benefit concert for 93.3FM Radio Five-O-Plus.

It costs about $80,000 a year to keep the community radio station on air. Without any government funding, that’s a lot of sausages to sizzle at Bunnings in fundraising drives, to add to membership fees, sponsorship, donations and the station’s annual raffle.

But this year, the station is thinking bigger, with the benefit concert at Gosford RSL on Sunday, September 10.

Headliners Lucky Starr, Liz Layton, Warren Williams, Lisa Crouch and Kel-Anne Brandt have all signed up to give their time for free and Gosford RSL has donated the venue.

Radio 93.3FM vice-president Michael Eckford said while the idea had been thrown around in the past, it was presenter Barbara Guerrero who had brought the concert to life this year, organising the star-studded line-up in perfect keeping with the station’s appeal.

With tickets just $20 each, Michael said they were confident of a good turn-out and a great afternoon out.

“If all goes well, we stand to clear $4000 and that goes a long way to keeping our heads above water,” Michael said.

The station boasts 50 volunteers and 18 presenters, all aged from about 60–80.

“The bulk of them are just ordinary people who love music and want to get involved,” Michael said.

“We have two studios here and our equipment is pretty first rate.”

The station has come a long way from its beginnings in 1993, when it aired twice a week from a small room above a pharmacy in Umina.

Since 1999 it has run 24/7, with tunes from 1945 to 1985, including The Beatles, The Eagles, Neil Diamond, Barbra Streisand, the Bee Gees, Doris Day and Elvis Presley.

Each show runs for three hours and, as well as their own music, presenters have access to a station play list of thousands of songs.

The station has a strong financial membership of about 500. However, Michael said it could be stronger if people realised membership cost just $10 a year, and the

difference that could make to the station.

“I have people say to me all the time, ‘we love your music, we’ve been listening to you for years’ but when I ask if they are members, they say no,” Michael said.

He encouraged everyone who enjoyed the music to get behind the station for this small annual fee.

And he reckons this year’s benefit could be just the platform for something bigger next year, as the station celebrates its 25th year.

On the day of the benefit, the RSL bistro opens at 11.30am. Doors open at 1.30pm, with the show at 2pm. Call 02 4325 1950 for tickets or go to www.fiveoplus. com.au to find out about the station and becoming a member, a sponsor or a volunteer.

BENEFITING MUSIC-LOVERS: Radio 93.3FM vice-president Michael Eckford with one of the morning presenters, Gary Gilday, in the studio.

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Food queen introduces flavour to the centre

FOOD ambassador Karen Martini inspires and delivers exciting recipes for seniors who have chosen to be a part of the Aurrum aged care community.

For the last three years the passionate chef, restaurateur and television cooking personality has been developing a range of meals that match Aurrum’s goal of providing its clients with an exceptional aged care experience in an extraordinary environment.

Every six months she contributes about 20 new recipes and then teaches the Aurrum staff how to prepare and present the exciting eating experiences in each of the Aurrum’s nine facilities.

Karen’s release of her spring recipes has coincided with the opening this month of Aurrum’s newest premium aged care facility, Aurrum Terrigal Drive, at Erina on the NSW Central Coast.

Nearby Aurrum Erina residents were the lucky ones to taste test 10 of Karen’s spring recipes.

“They sampled them and gave me their

feedback. Now they will get tweaked,” Karen said.

“It’s a great process and very inspiring as it’s not just about supplying the recipes.

“I take feedback from the clients through our food forums,” she added.

Karen’s approach to the recipes she develops for Aurrum is different; modern, but in an old-fashioned way. She looks at food as being not just daily fuel, but also delicious, vibrant, exciting, and nutritionally sound.

“We are trying to change the attitude to aged care in what should we serve. It’s not fine dining, it’s about those comfort dishes that make people feel good,” Karen said.

“I don’t have a medicinal approach to it. I always chase flavour first.

And if you have cooked from scratch and used seasonal ingredients, it is going to be nutritionally sound anyway, especially with the methods of cooking that I suggest we use.

“It’s got to have some spunk in it, be vibrant and enticing.

“Flavour comes first,

but appealing to the eye as well is very important.”

Her recipe that has caused a “stir” among the residents has been her lamb shanks. It’s been very popular. But now she is shaking that recipe up with a new version.

It’s a sticky spiced lamb shank, braised with honey, currants, parsnip and cinnamon. It’s very rich and nurturing.

“The lamb flavour is something a lot of residents really appreciate. The touch of spice and sweetness really brings it to life,” she said Some of her other new recipes are chicken and corn soup with sour cream and a touch of smoky paprika, a spiced lamb strap with pomegranate molasses, spinach and smashed almonds dust, and moussaka.

While Karen is slowly introducing some new ingredients, the old favourites are still on the menu, such as spaghetti bolognaise and shepherd’s pie.

“There’s even been a request for braised pork belly with sauerkraut,” she added.

Karen’s role is hands-on

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OPENING: Aurrum Chairman David Di Pilla, State Member for Terrigal Adam Crouch MP, Aurrum Food Ambassador Karen Martini and Aurrum national clinical and operations director Glenda Walker at the official opening of Aurrum's newest facility at Terrigal Drive, Erina in NSW. PHOTOS: AURRUM

FOOD FANTASTIC: Aurrum director Mary Shaw with Aurrum food ambassador Karen Martini at Aurrum's newest facility at Terrigal Drive, Erina in NSW.

as she works intensely with the facility chefs and their staff, teaching them her food philosophy and showing each of them how to prepare her recipes so that they can have ownership of the new eating approach.

“We are achieving great change,” she said.

“Everything I do comes down to a love of food and this is another avenue which is very satisfying.”

Aurrum’s Terrigal Drive has 71 beds across the five-star facility. Each suite has high quality fittings and fixtures and is complemented by a marble ensuite.

GREAT EATING: Aurrum'S FOOD ambassador Karen Martini working alongside the head chef at Aurrum's newest facility at Terrigal Drive, Erina in NSW.

It will operate with 24 hour, seven days a week nursing care.

The delightfully landscaped garden with its tranquil hinterland views and the nearby al-fresco dining area, wellness and hydrotherapy centres where individualised programs will be delivered, on-site hairdressing salon, café, private dining and cinema makes this a premium aged care facility.

“It’s got outstanding social spaces with quite luxurious surroundings,” Karen said.

“From a kitchen point of

view, it’s a very fresh idea and approach in an open and convivial space that has a more restaurant environment.

“I think Aurrum is extraordinarily different and innovative.

“We are pioneers in this industry and we still have a lot of goals we want to kick.

“Exceptional aged care in an extraordinary environment is true,” she added.

For more information on Aurrum Terrigal Drive, go to www.aurrum.com.au or call 1800 287 786.

Aurrum’s spring corn and chicken soup recipe AURRUM’S food ambassador Karen Martini has developed the following delicious spring corn and chicken soup with coriander and sour cream recipe as one of the new meals included in Aurrum’s 2017/18 spring and summer menu.

Preparation time is 10 minutes. The cooking time is between 25–30 minutes.

While this recipe is designed to serve 20 people, you can easily cut down the ingredient quantity to suit your needs.

Ingredients ■ 8 rashers bacon finely diced, or a 150gm piece

SPRING FOOD: Karen Martini's spring corn and chicken soup with coriander and sour cream.

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of smoked Kaiser fleisch cut into 1cm dice.

■ 100g unsalted butter.

■ 4 leeks, finely sliced in

rounds (white part only).

■ 6 stalks celery, finely diced.

■ 2 brown onion, finely

diced.

■ 8 cloves garlic, finely chopped.

■ 10 sprigs thyme.

■ 6 teaspoons of smoked sweet paprika.

■ 80g plain flour.

■ 5 litres low salt chicken stock.

■ 6 large desiree or dutch cream potatoes, scrubbed and baked or steamed in skins for and hour or until fully cooked.

■ 6 fresh sweetcorn cobs, kernels stripped and blended in a blender with 900mls milk.

■ 2 x 1.6 free range chicken, roasted whole, ■ Salt flakes and freshly ground pepper to garnish the soup .

■ 2 bunch coriander

leaves, roughly chopped.

■ Green jelapenos sliced to garnish pickled in jar.

■ 1 kg sour cream.

Method 1. In a large heavy bottomed pot brown the bacon\kaiser fliesch over medium heat five minutes.

2. Add butter, the leek and garlic and onion and celery and season with salt and pepper and cook for about 10 minutes until the leek has softened.

3. Add the fresh thyme sprigs and paprika 4. Add the flour and stir constantly while it cooks for two minutes. Add the stock and potato pulled from skin and crumbled.

5. Add the milk \ corn mix to the pot. Bring to a simmer, stirring constantly. Once the soup has reached a rapid simmer, cook until the soup has thickened. This could take 10 minutes.

Turn down the heat and add the pulled chicken to the soup. Heat for a further minute just to warm the chicken. Check seasoning.

6. Serve topped with the sour cream and jalepenos and coriander.

You can serve the soup in small cups.

Allergens: the recipe contains gluten (flour, stock). It’s free of canola and prawns.

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Talk ‘n’ thoughts Hurdles, highjumps and solutions

Unique affordable housing program

A PILOT affordable housing program, based on shared equity, is planned to begin near the end of the year in Victoria.

Chief executive officer of Women’s Property Initiatives Jeanette Large told ABC radio late last month that investment funds were now in place to finance the next steps of the development.

The shared equity program, a first of its kind in Australia, is aimed at providing affordable housing for older women who may have retired without owning a home but at the same time have savings, though not

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enough to buy a home.

Ms Large said there were about 15,000 Victorian women in this, in-between category, that is, not able to purchase a home but having savings that may range between $100,000 to $300,000.

She said there were a variety of reasons that led to the situation, including working part-time due to

care for children or ageing parents, divorce and lower paid employment.

The pilot program is ready to commence with a combination of funding from philanthropic sources and WIP’s commercial borrowings.

The women would also be expected to make an upfront investment and pay rent. However, there would no expectation of further investment, although it would be possible.

Rent would be kept to a minimum and legal agreements put in place for future circumstances, including sale and opt out

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What is the Women’s Property Initiatives WOMEN’S Property Initiatives is a not-for-profit, women-specific Registered Housing Provider.

Mission: To create new beginnings for women by providing stable and affordable housing that empowers at-risk women and children to have a secure, brighter future.

This is achieved by working with the private, public and non-government sectors to develop high-quality, safe and affordable housing where rent is charged at not more

options.

Ms Large said the women in private rental suffered problems such as emotional drain due to insecurity and depletion of their funds because of the high cost of renting.

She believed the pilot program was a preventative measure offering a viable housing solution before women inevitably ended up on a Public Housing list.

The adaptability meant housing could be modified as the women age and provide an alternative to retirement villages.

At this stage the program is only in Victoria.

than 75% of the market rent.

WPI owns 755 properties in Melbourne, housing more than 200 women and children.

Beneficiaries: Single women, women-headed households, children, older women, indigenous women, women exiting correctional facilities, newly arrived migrants, homeless women, women on low incomes, women escaping domestic or family violence, women with a disability.

HAVE YOUR SAY: Email editor@seniorsnewspaper.com.au or go online to www.seniorsnews.com.au.

Food, wine and jazz keep Pearl Beach a jewel PEARL Beach, as its name suggests, is something special.

And two events on the Pearl Beach Progress Association calendar sum up its unique environment and sense of culture and community – the Pearl Beach Food and Wine Fare, now in its 10th year, on September 23, and the annual Jazz in the Arboretum on October 1.

Organiser Lynne Lillico has been involved since the fare’s inception and said while the number of exhibitors couldn’t grow past its current 14 due to

the size of the Memorial Hall where it is held, it attracted about 1000 people through the doors each year.

“The fare started 10 years ago as a fundraising activity to raise much-needed money to restore the ageing ocean rock pool,” Lynne said.

“The success of the event encouraged the Progress Association to make it annual.

“We invite about 14 gourmet food and boutique wine producers from the Hunter and Central Coast.

“Fifty per cent of the original exhibitors return each year. In addition we endeavour to source new and interesting produce suppliers.”

This year one of the new feature presenters is Chillicious Gourmet Foods from Copacabana, with their handmade artisan products including relishes, chutneys, jams and chocolate.

You can also sample from Wollombi and Catherine Vale Wines and Old Inn Road Vineyard.

Favourite food producers on show include Little

Creek Cheeses, Crooked Creek’s biscuits and homemade Christmas puddings, Laguna Olives, Wollombi Honey and Margin’s Mushrooms.

Two Gourmet Hampers filled with food and wine donated by exhibitors will be raffled, with proceeds toward the Memorial Hall maintenance and upkeep.

And the hall has quite a history, with one of the main aims of the association from its inception in 1929 being construction of a community hall.

Unfortunately, the Great

Depression and WWII were major stumbling blocks, and it wasn’t until 1950 that the building was finished thanks to a fundraising drive, voluntary labour and local builders. The hall became a memorial to the young men from Pearl Beach who died in the war and is used each year for the Anzac Day service as well as numerous community events.

But for those who would also like a taste of jazz, there’s Jazz in the Arboretum, this year featuring the pianist often

referred to by critics and his peers as one of the finest artists in the world, Simon Tedeschi, and multi-instrumentalist George Washingmachine.

Lynne encouraged people to buy their tickets ($45 adults, $25 children) early so as not to miss out, and bring a rug or chairs and a picnic and enjoy what is a unique experience with world class artists in a native bushland setting.

Details about the fare, concert, association and other events, go to www.pearlbeachprogress. org.au.

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“We often have people who have retired to the Coast but their families are in Sydney or elsewhere and don’t have that regular contact to be able to visit them and see how they are going.”

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The importance of such contact was highlighted in July by the discovery of an elderly couple’s bodies in a Palm Beach home in Sydney’s northern suburbs after what was believed to be weeks.

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“Loneliness is one of the huge health issues for our community now,” he said.

In recognition of this, MoWCC last month initiated a new Furry Friends program, which also delivers veterinary quality meals to clients’ pets.

The program is in partnership with local business East Coast Dogs, but also provides meals for cats.

“You can only imagine that some of these people have lost a partner and their dog or cat is their only companion, their family,” Dennis said.

“Furry Friends recognises the importance of pets for these people, a lot of whom are left alone for long periods of time, and takes the burden of buying and carrying pet food from them, while ensuring they are both well cared for.”

This is just one of MoWCC’s new initiatives, in what Dennis admits is a period of change.

Registrations are also

now being taken for a Combined Home Services program, in which MoWCC has partnered with 22 different services to offer a dependable one-stop shop to clients, covering aspects such as house and garden maintenance, podiatry, travel, and more.

“All the service providers are locally owned and people who have been around a long time, so our clients know they can trust them and won’t be ripped off or scammed,” Dennis said.

But at MoWCC’s core, Dennis said, were its volunteers, who were celebrating the service’s 50 years at a special lunch as this paper went to press, with a number being recognised for service of between 10 and 50 years.

“Our volunteers are the lifeblood of the organisation,” Dennis said.

“They make it possible to deliver a service which is good value as well as so valuable to our clients.”

A gala fundraising dinner will also be held to mark MoWCC’s anniversary on National Meals on Wheels Day on August 30.

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Good laugh rids the blues

Laughter Yoga is great way to improve your wellbeing REGULAR laughter could be the secret to a healthier life for the over 60s, a new study has found.

La Trobe University researchers have demonstrated that chuckles, chanting and clapping can lead to improved mood and lower blood pressure.

Residents from three Melbourne aged care homes took part in six weekly Laughter Yoga sessions – a program that involved simulated laughter exercises, deep belly breathing, chanting and clapping while seated in a circle.

Researchers from La Trobe’s School of Nursing and Midwifery, School of Psychology and Public Health and the Lincoln Centre for Research on Ageing measured their positive and negative mood and level of happiness, as well as their pulse and blood pressure at the beginning and end of each session.

“The study found Laughter Yoga resulted in measurable improvements in health

and emotional well-being for older people living in residential aged care homes,” lead researcher Julie Ellis said.

“Based on our findings, there’s good reason to run regular sessions in aged care facilities.”

Fellow La Trobe researcher Ros Ben-Moshe, a trained Laughter Yoga instructor who led the sessions, said the majority of participants enjoyed taking part.

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Laughter is contagious. If one person in the group laughed, others soon followed... in the group laughed, others soon followed,” Ms Ben-Moshe said.

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“Participants told us Laughter Yoga made them feel good, relaxed and connected with others in the group.

“Only one person dropped out and most of those who completed the program said they would do it again.”

In total, 28 residents took part in the research, published in The Australasian Journal of Ageing.

The participants were aged 61 to 96 and almost half had dementia.

A typical Laughter yoga session will include a combination of the

following exercises: ■ Gentle breathing and stretching ■ Playful laughter exercises that reduce inhibitions and shyness and convert simulated laughter into natural, spontaneous laughter ■ Clapping exercises ■ Deep breathing

exercises that help participants regain breath after hearty laughter ■ Laughter meditation, which involves lying down and allowing spontaneous laughter to flow from the body ■ Sessions are closed with a guided relaxation

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Community TO ALLOW for readers’ requests for the publication of more neighbourhood news, please keep notices short and to the point (100 word maximum). If you would like to submit a photo please ensure it is at least 180dpi or 500kb to 1mb in size and of faces, in a nice bright setting.

The deadline for the September issue is September 11. Email Nicky or Chris at communitynotes@seniors newspaper.com.au.

LONG JETTY SENIORS

THE Long Jetty Seniors exists because of the willing volunteers who are happy yo give something back to the senior community. In appreciation of the time and effort our volunteer’s give to the club a volunteers luncheon was held for them on July 27.

The club partnered with the Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College under the tuteledge of Michelle Timperley to cater for the event and the students presented a wonderful luncheon to the volunteers and their partners. These functions give the students hands on experience in a commercial kitchen and waiting experience. If you have a skill and you wish to share it, see a committee member and discuss volunteering for the club. Call 4332 5522 or call in a 6 Thompson St, Long Jetty, Monday to Friday 9am–3pm.

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LOCAL AGED CARE: Peninsula Villages won two awards at the 2017 Peninsula Chamber of Commerce Business Awards.

Club. We play three times a week (both social and competition games) in a friendly, relaxed atmosphere and we would be delighted to welcome new members. If you are new to this activity tuition will be given. Details call 4334 3800.

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WE MEET on the third Friday of each month at Halekulani Bowling Club, Budgewoi. We are proud to support The Smith Family. Come along for a delicious luncheon and interesting guest speakers. Details call Chris 4396 5631.

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WORKING for the Smith Family holds its monthly dinner meeting in the Function Room at the Grange Hotel, Renwick St, Wyoming on the fourth Tuesday of the month at 6.30pm for 7pm. New members and visitors are most welcome. Call Valda on 4325 1688 or Helen

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WE MEET on the second Friday of the month at 10.30am at Club Toukley RSL. We have lucky door prizes,raffles and lunch followed by entertainment. We also have outings and friendship morning teas.

Come along and make new friends. We are a member of the Smith Family raising money for the learning support and education of disadvantaged children of Australia. Contact Sandra on 4396 6206.

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Long Jetty Seniors Club volunteers’ lunch was held on July 27 catered for by Tuggerah Lakes Secondary College students.

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WYONG AT THE RACES EXHIBITION

WYONG District Museum is excited to announce its first special exhibition since the rebuild of the homestead following the arson attack in 2011. The exhibition will run from September 2 until November 15 at Alison Homestead, 1 Cape Rd, Wyong.

To celebrate Wyong’s long and successful horse racing history and its connection with Alison Homestead Estate we are proud to be working in conjunction with Wyong Race Club, who will be providing us with some special pieces of memorabilia to display at our museum during the exhibition.

To open the starting gates to the exhibition, we are holding a special Winning Streaks Open Day on September 2 from 11am to 2pm.

The day will include a light lunch and refreshments with special guest speaker and local historian, Phillip Morley, sharing stories of Wyong’s keen racing history as well as the chance to be first past the post to view the exhibition.

Tickets for the day are $10 per person.

Bookings are essential for the Open Day and can be made by calling the museum on 4352 1886 or emailing us at info@ alisonhomestead.com.au.

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Speakers include Adssi Home living.

You will also learn more about YourLink an award winning free app developed in NSW for seniors to stay intouch with family, friends and the local community.

So come along Tuesday, September 12 from 9.30am–12.30pm (includes morning tea) to Club Mingara, 12/14 Mingara Dr, Tumbi Umbi.

LOCAL aged care provider, Peninsula Villages has won two awards at the 2017 Peninsula Chamber of Commerce Business Awards, taking out the Employer of Choice award and Chief Executive Officer Shane Neaves won the Business Leader award.

As an employer of more than 300 locals, Peninsula Villages was recognised for the Employer of Choice award for its strategies and initiatives that are implemented to create a stimulating and supportive workplace environment.

Peninsula Villages has won the Employer of Choice award for the second year running.

In addition to this award, the Peninsula Villages team secretly nominated Shane Neaves for the Business Leader Award where he was recognised for his positive contribution and strategic business direction on behalf of the organisation.

With more than 300 staff, 80 volunteers and 450 residents, Peninsula Villages is one of the largest employers on the Peninsula and these awards further recognise the organisation’s positive reputation in the region and the aged care industry.

Details visit www.peninsulavillage. com.au or call 4344 9199.

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Living

Good times rolling back with rock talk

DO YOU remember the stars that used to take to the local club stage back in the 1960s and ’70s?

They were the big names both locally and internationally, including Winnifred Atwell, John English, J’OK, Johnny Farnham, Marcia Hines, Strop and Hoges, the Bee Gees, Sandy Scott, Little Pattie, Col Joye … and, of course, Kamahl.

As part of History Week, Central Coast Council’s local studies librarian Geoffrey Potter is set to take you back to those

days with a nostalgic trip through the lens of Gosford photographer Les Allen in a talk called Rock ’Til You Drop.

Les, originally from Queensland, became involved in the then-fledgling Central Coast Leagues Club when he moved here and from 1963 devoted much of his time to documenting its growth, from sporting events to concerts, including almost every visiting artist and support act – many of whom are now long forgotten.

A few years before his death in July 2011, Les donated his entire collection to Gosford City Library and Geoffrey believes these photographs provide a rare glimpse into those times. The talks are on September 5–7 at Tuggerah, Kincumber and Woy Woy Libraries from 10.30am. To find out more, contact the libraries or search the event on eventbrite.com.au.

To see more of Les’s photos, simply Google Gostalgia.

REMEMBER WHEN: Sandy Scott, photographed by Les Allen, in action at Central Coast Leagues Club in the 1960s.

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Using the internet to discover your family roots FAMILIES have secrets and surprises and tend to believe their own stories!

So, when my friend received results from a DNA test with Ancestry. com – she could hardly believe it.

Indeed, the colour of her life story began to take on a different hue.

And it seems, per Ancestry.com, my friend’s Freya’s experience, is similar to many other thoughtful Australians.

Recent figures from The Australian 2016 Census, revealed that Aussies identify with more than 300 different ancestries, the most common of which is listed as being English (36%), Australian (34%) and Irish (11%).

But what does being “Australian” actually mean? For some it is citizenship, for others it’s calling themselves sixth-generation Australian born. But there’s often a difference between the nationalities we identify with and those that make up our DNA, whether you know about them or not.

“While the 2016 Census revealed some generation-defining shifts around population statistics, our combined DNA tells an additional story about the diversity

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of the nation,” Ancestry Australia and New Zealand’s marketing manager Nigel Seeto said.

In Australia, up until about two years ago, a laborious and often complex “genealogical” search carried through family tree research was required to find family history details.

In contrast, these days a simple saliva test can provide many answers in a fraction of the time.

Mr Seeto says the DNA test has more focus on defining your own personal identity.

“It’s more just about the person who is searching,” he said.

“About your search for identity, your place in the world, how you fit into history,” he said.

My friend’s DNA pointed to her ethnic heritage and provided names of people who were very likely to be second, third, fourth and beyond cousins. But unlike those wonderfully detailed family trees, there were no birth,

death and marriage dates, nor hints of occupations and collaborations.

So, if you wish to delve deeply into your heritage, Mr Seeto recommends the combination of a DNA test along with a search through Ancestry.com family tree.

But, back to my friend, who believed she was from a tribes spilling out of Bulgaria, Lithuania and

Poland, with a big splash of Irish in the mix and a thin Germanic line. Well, no. Her DNA revealed something quite different. She was shown to be 62% British Isles (England, Scotland, Wales) with a tad of Greek/Italian and the rest Swiss and German.

She can’t quite come to terms with the news and plans to do further research. “Then we will

get to the nitty-gritty,” she says with a sly smile.

ANCESTRY.COM DNA TESTING

■ You can request a kit online for upwards of $100. When this is sent, you give a small saliva sample and send it back to the US laboratories.

The analysis arrives in the mail 6 – 8 weeks later.

■ The DNA analysis traces back 500 to 1000 years. The Ancestory.com DNA folk have divided the world into 26 regions: the regions are not defined by geographical borders due to their changing nature. The DNA is firstly tested individually as is, it is then tested against DNA that makes up the 26 regions. The second test further refines results from the first.

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Finance

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Money

Digital assets and your will?

YOU may know where you would like your house, shares or cash to end up when you die, but have you also included in your will details of how you want your online presence to be managed.

Lawyer Paul Paxton-Hall said technology had given rise to a whole new world of digital assets.

“There has been a shift from people keeping photo albums, journals and letters, physical assets that can be dealt with easily in a will, to posting and storing photos digitally, maintaining blogs and email accounts,” he said.

“Applying succession law to these intangible assets has its challenges as there is still

uncertainty around the status of the digital assets as property.

“These assets can be particularly hard to manage when you consider the average Internet user has 26 different accounts and 10 unique passwords.

“People should pay close attention to their various digital assets when preparing wills and give thought to what they would like to happen to their digital footprint.”

He noted it can be difficult to identify the ownership rights of digital assets as they are often stored, created and managed by a third-party.

“Most social media and digital platforms’ user

agreements do not allow users to own the property in their account,” he said.

“Many online platforms rest in a foreign jurisdiction, meaning challenging their policies are likely to be even more stressful, expensive and time-consuming.

“Facebook and Google allow users to nominate a legacy contact who can access their account in the event of their death.

“When developing a digital estate plan, people need to know who owns the asset, where it’s located and how to access it.”

Some practical tips for digital estate planning: ■ Decide what you would like to happen to your digital assets. Will they be

WILLS: Remember to include in your will details of how you want your digital assets handled.

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deleted or memorialised?

Will your family have full access?

■ Create a list of your accounts and identify the policies of each platform for the death of a member.

Facebook and Google allow people to nominate

another person as a legacy contact to administer a limited, memorialised account.

Legacy contacts must be appointed before your death.

■ If you want loved ones to have unfettered access

to your account, ensure you note down the passwords where they can access them if you die.

You can use a password manager such as TrueKey to manage all your passwords under a single master key. This master password can be left with your legal representative.

■ Write down how you would like your online assets dealt with.

This should include nominating someone to be the executor of your digital estate.

A word of warning, with the exception of the legacy contact process, your loved ones may be in breach of some platforms’ terms of service by accessing your accounts after your death.

We’re catching up to digital payment choices SENIORS are taking to the digital era by switching from cash and cheques to digital payments methods with card transactions doubling since 2007. The 2016 Reserve Bank’s triennial Consumer Payments Survey data shows that across the population debit and credit cards are now the most frequent means of payment, overtaking cash for the first time.

In 2007 cash payments accounted for 70% of transactions. Last

year, they accounted for just 37%. However, while tap-and-go is increasingly the choice for lower-value transactions and direct debits are being used more frequently, cash is still used regularly in households aged 50 and older. The amount of cash carried in the 65+ was about $95 which was more than twice what was being carried by other age groups.

Our use of cheques is declining with the RBA reporting a decline in the past decade of about

13%. In 2007 the RBA reports cheques represented just over 2% of payments by consumers aged 65 and over. Last year, it fell to less than 1%.

Older Australians are moving towards internet banking as they gain confidence in electronic payment options. The survey found internet use among older Australians is rising rapidly and their largest single use of the internet is for online banking and paying bills.

It reports about 40% of

respondents aged 65 and over used online payments in the 2016 survey week, compared with 5% in 2007.

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Our use of cheques is declining...

It appears we are rapidly adopting to online payments just as younger age groups are doing so.

Using a mobile phone app for payment is considered a relatively new option. It is,

however, gaining momentum with a noticeable increase in online and person-to-person payments.

But don’t sit back and relax as there is another change to how we pay on its way to us in October.

The New Payments Platform, or NPP, is described as a world-class platform for payments which will allow for money and data to move between bank accounts instantaneously. The

official word from the RBA is the NPP will allow for simply addressed payments with near real-time funds availability to consumers 24/7, so gone will be the days of waiting until Monday for a weekend payment to be processed.

Payment messages will be able to carry more remittance information such as 18 characters currently available for direct entry payments.

Trillion dollar superannuation overhaul to give consumers more power THE Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O’Dwyer, has announced the Federal Government proposes overhauling Australia’s superannuation legislation. Under discussion is the role of providers and the prudential framework in delivering a more transparent and accountable compulsory retirement savings system.

“This comprehensive package will help deliver all Australians a strong and modern superannuation system that is solely focused on outcomes for all

Australians who rely on these funds to secure their retirement,” Ms O’Dwyer said.

The objective of the Superannuation Member Outcomes Package is to improve outcomes for consumers and includes: ■ Make superannuation providers more accountable to consumers through the introduction of annual member meetings which is already a long standing requirement for the public companies in which superannuation funds invest their members’ money.

■ Require funds to report and publish annually more

CHANGES: Reforms planned to give consumers more power.

transparent information on how their fund is being managed, including information on how the fund sets its fees and the

way it spends members’ money.

■ Strengthen default MySuper products including a stronger annual assessment of MySuper product outcomes to ensure the investment and insurance strategies, fees, scale and returns are promoting the financial interests of MySuper members.

■ Close a legal loophole that has been used by unscrupulous employers to short-change employees who make salary sacrifice contributions into their super accounts.

■ Give APRA more capacity to take

preventive and corrective action if it has prudential concerns about a fund or if a fund is not acting in the best interests of members.

■ Give APRA greater capacity to refuse or cancel a MySuper authorisation where it believes a licensee will fail to meet its obligations.

■ Provide stronger protection for consumers by requiring APRA approval before transferring ownership or control of a licensee to operate a fund.

■ Make directors of superannuation funds who breach their duties to members subject to the

same civil and criminal penalties as directors of ordinary managed investment schemes.

■ The government has also tasked APRA with making it easier for consumers to opt-out of automatic life and disability insurance policies provided through superannuation.

The package won’t make any changes to the taxation treatment superannuation. The government recognised the importance of having a competitive and efficient superannuation system which had been in place since 1993 and currently valued at about $2 trillion.

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Travel

10 TRAVEL author Ann Rickard gives us her top ten reasons to love the south of France in summer, a place she returns to year after year.

The climate: The south has 300 days of sunshine a year, with average summer temperatures in the high 20s, early 30s. You’d have to be unlucky to visit in summer and not be bathed in sunshine.

The language: Is there another language in the world that sounds so gorgeous? You’ll enjoy just being surrounded by its lyrical loveliness. Within a day of a visit you’ll be chorusing ‘bonjour’ and ‘merci’ to everyone you encounter.

The countryside: Smiling yellow sunflowers at every turn, lovely leafy plane trees lining back roads, mauve fields of lavender shimmering in the sun, red poppies dancing on the roadside and endless rows of lush grapevines… Happiness everywhere and reassurance you are in the south of France.

The wine: It’s very good and super cheap. Supermarket shelves are stacked with wines with labels that bring to mind regions you have only dreamt about. We love buying wine from the co-operatives in the countryside, where the wine is pumped straight from a vat into a container, just as you would pump petrol into your car. For just a few euros you can fill your container with five litres of good stuff.

The dining: It is difficult to find a dud meal in France, even in the most modest

reasons to love the south of France

OUI OUI: The south of France is a multi-sensory delight that begins with the stunning azure water and spreads to the most delectable tables of food and wine.

establishments. The French love local produce cooked without fuss, vegetables take centre stage, and the excellent bread is free and keeps coming throughout each meal. Most bistros and cafes have pix fixe menus of three courses at reasonable cost, which means you know what you’ll pay before you eat, and the house wine by the pichet (jug) barely adds to

the cost.

The towns and villages: Some of the prettiest villages in the country are found in the south, from the rocky spectacle of Gordes and Les Baux to the leafy charm of St Remy and the red-earth vibrancy of Roussillon.

Then there are the towns of Avignon with its grand and gothic Palais des Papes (where the popes lived during the 14th

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century), and the Roman amphitheatres in Nimes and Arles. L’isle sur la Sorgue is called the Venice of Provence for its many canals and waterways. In smaller villages such as Menerbes and Bonnieux, the petanque players will put you right in the heart of Peter Mayle (A Year in Provence) country.

The cheese. Oui, sil vous

plait. With more varieties than there are days in the year and every region having its own varieties, you’ll be in a cheese frenzy. Start with the familiar – a soft camembert, a runny brie – and build up to daring varieties with names you can’t pronounce (try a munster and then a sainte nectaire, followed by a roquefort. Better still, set a goal to try a new-to-you cheese every day of your visit.

The history: The Romans swept through much of France 2000 years ago and left a legacy that exists in many parts of the countryside today. A standout is the three-tiered Pont du Gard, the ancient aqueduct the Romans built to carry water from a spring in Uzes to Nimes 50km away – an engineering marvel that astounds.

The patisseries: Even if you don’t own a sweet tooth, you will love standing at the window of any patisserie in any town or village. Almond croissants, macrons, pain au chocolat, mille-feuille, tart-tatine, citron and strawberry tarts… the pastries are displayed as though they were precious jewels. Give in. Don’t even try to resist.

The beaches, the glam: While we have some of the best beaches in the world in Australia, it doesn’t hurt to be so close to names that send tingles up the spine: Nice, St Tropez, Villefranche, Cap Ferrat… You don’t have to say another thing.

Read more of Ann’s musing at www.annrickard.com.

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IMPRESSIVE: The Taj Mahal.

In the name of true love THERE are some moments in life that don’t live up to the anticipation, but your first sight of India’s Taj Mahal will not be one of them.

This building is every bit as impressive and wonderful as you have been led to believe, and an amazing tribute from a man to the woman he loved.

A love story like no other As I walked around this enormous building, our guide shared his version of the story behind its creation. Evidently, when Shah Jahan was 14 years old, he was strolling through the local market.

A strong wind blew through the market stalls, blowing aside the demure clothing of Mumtaz who was just a young girl serving on her father’s stall.

Blown away by Mumtaz’s beauty, Shah fell deeply in love and romance blossomed between the couple.

Although they both longed for marriage, Shah was the heir and promised to marry another. So, he did, and then another wife before finally marrying Mumtaz.

They say it was a marriage of love, and the birth of 14 children is

EAT, DRINK AND BE KERRY KERRY HEANEY fairly good evidence that it was. Unfortunately, the birth of the 14th child resulted in Mumtaz’s death at the age of 37.

Shah was so distressed by her death he decided to construct of the Taj Mahal as a memorial.

Although you can’t see them, the bodies of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahai lie under the building in a crypt only accessed by family.

The gardens between the entrance and the tomb are set out in a formal pattern with a reflecting pool. Even on the hottest day, the trees provide a cool respite from the sun.

Take a day trip from Delhi The Taj Mahal is located in Agra which is a four-hour, perhaps longer depending on the traffic, drive from Delhi. It is open from sunrise to sunset daily, except Friday when it is closed.

From The Leela Palace New Delhi, the driver took the new expressway which is a toll road and less crowded than other

routes. The locals were very surprised at how quick our journey was.

If you can allow a full day for the tour, include a visit to the Red Fort in Agra and the tomb of Shaikh Chisti.

The Leela Palace in Chanakyapuri is located in New Delhi’s Diplomatic Enclave and is a luxurious blend of royal Indian culture and modern architecture that will impress even the most jaded traveller. An independent hotel, The Leela was selected as member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts because it embodies the local culture of the New Delhi and the romance of travel.

Visual splendour is everywhere, but even more apparent is the hotel’s hospitality which works on the mantra that the guest is god. It’s the first time anyone has offered to draw my bath, a service I foolishly rejected from my private butler. My biggest regret is not making time to indulge at either the spa or the roof top swimming pool which is maintained at a comfortable 26 degrees Celsius.

Disclaimer: The writer was hosted by Jet Airways and The Leela Palace New Delhi.

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Plan for epic adventure PEREGRINE Adventures is offering early bird discounts of up to 30% on select polar voyages in 2018–19, with savings of up to $9400* on offer. On sale until September 30, 2017, Peregrine polar journeys are priced from $9300* for an 11-day voyage including visits to the Antarctic Peninsula and the South Shetland Islands. A new 18-day journey to the Falklands and South Georgia is priced from $16,640, offering savings of up to $8275* during the early bird sale. The epic

expedition offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore the ‘Galapagos of the Poles’ with South Georgia’s abundant wildlife including king and macaroni penguins and petrels, albatross and burrowing sea birds. There will be more chances to spot wildlife in the Falklands archipelago with the two main islands, East and West Falkland, home to thriving magellanic, gentoo and rockhopper penguin colonies. In total, the new 2018–19 Antarctic program offers 10 different itineraries

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Experience life in the outback by bus FIVE-DAY tour to “My Country” Gunnedah and Tamworth, which includes a full day at the Country Music Festival. Tour departing January 24, 2018.

Value-packed tours for the Over 55’s travel clubs and individual traveller.

When you travel with Coastal Liner Touring, you’re aboard the region’s premier coach company.

We have a simple philosophy, ‘Explore,

enjoy, experience’, and we are 100% committed to providing value for money as well as first-class touring experiences.

Don’t miss out on the spectacular scenery, fresh country clean air and open spaces as we explore Gunnedah, Tamworth and Nundle.

The region’s beauty is said to have inspired much of Dorothea Mackellar’s poetry.

This modern country

town lies on the gentle sloping terrain on the southern side of the Namoi River valley.

The district has booming wheat, cotton and cattle industries, and the town’s large wild koala population has led to Gunnedah’s selfproclaimed title of the Koala capital of the world.

All Roads lead to Tamworth for Australia’s Largest Music Festival.

Tamworth is known as the

country music capital of Australia and the home of the Golden Guitars – the Academy Awards of country music.

We have a full day to experience the vibrant atmosphere. There are more than 600 buskers in Peel St alone, providing a diverse range of entertainment all day.

The main street is a vibrant pretty place with a boulevard atmosphere where you relax under the

trees and watch the passing parade.

Overnight accommodation: Mackellar Motel – Gunnedah.

Coastal Liner Touring is the hassle-free, no-fuss option when it comes to coach touring. We’ll get you there in comfort, we make all of the arrangements and you get to sit back, relax and enjoy the experience in comfort and style on

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An illustrious line-up of opera and musical theatre legends will entertain guests on one of two, luxury, back-to-back cruises in Europe in May 2018, as part of unique, new cruise tour to be hosted by Cruise Express.

Celebrating fine music and culture, the 27-night ‘Classical Europe’ tour begins with a flight from Australia to the UK on May 15, 2018, and three nights’ accommodation in London, with visits to Kensington Palace, Windsor Castle, the backstage workshops of the Royal Opera House and a visit to the unique Wallace Collection art exhibition at Hertford House.

The journey then moves to sea with a special, seven-night, ‘Bravo’ performing arts cruise

from Southampton aboard the 2900-passenger cruise ship, Celebrity Silhouette.

The round-trip cruise to three ports in Spain and France includes performances by some of musical theatre’s finest voices including Welsh soprano Katherine Jenkins OBE, English tenor Alfie Boe and New Zealand baritone, Teddy Tahu Rhodes as well as performances by the National Symphony Orchestra and cellist and conductor Julian Lloyd Webber, the brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber.

In the Spanish city of Bilbao, the itinerary includes a private tour of the spectacular Guggenheim Museum followed by an exclusive reception in the museum’s striking, light-filled atrium.

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Passion for travel gives an insight into Vietnam VIETNAM: Visit Van Long Water Reserve Ninh Binh and enjoy a wonderful lunch in Ho Chi Minh City.

personally creating itineraries to the region now for more than 12 years.

During the course of each year, Glenn escorts around three trips to Asia. Focusing on Vietnam, Cambodia, Japan, Laos, India and Myanmar. We have almost lost track of how many times Glenn has travelled to Vietnam but on last count it was more

than 25 occasions.

At the moment Glenn is escorting one of his small groups on a destination journey to Myanmar. Our guess are staying in five-star luxury in Yangon, taking a deluxe river cruise on the Irrawaddy and concluding their time in Myanmar at the very serene Inle lake, in the centre of Myanmar.

Recently Hoang Nguyen, The Travellers

Hut’s Vietnamese journey escort, has been on holiday here on the Central Coast brushing up on his English.

Together he and Glenn have just completed negotiations and planning for our next destination journey to Vietnam in March 2018.

The focus of our next trip is authentic Vietnam, where we not only visit the major cities of Saigon and Hanoi but also delve deep into regional Vietnam. With a maximum of only 12 guests it allows us to travel to many places that larger groups cannot access. Also not only will we have our local guide with us, we have the

bonus of having Hoang our Vietnamese escort with us as well.

Having Hoang with us during our journeys to Vietnam means when our guide finishes work for the day we are still able to spend time with and talk to the local people while we visit the villages and towns. It gives the guests on our journeys a whole new dimension as Hoang is better able to bridge the gap between our two cultures providing unique insights. Making for a relaxed and enlightening journey.

During our journey in March we have included amazing experiences in both Saigon and Hanoi and we travel off the

tourist path to Chau Doc on the Mekong River on the border with Cambodia and the small rural town of Mai Chau, spending time in the small villages surrounded by rice paddies. To discover more about our authentic Vietnam journey, contact Glenn at The Travellers Hut on 4363 1699.

Also soon to be completed is our Japan journey for October 2018.

We are putting together a journey that will travel to Tokyo, Nagoya, the quaint town of Takayama, Hiroshima and Glenn’s personal Japan favourite, Kyoto. Be on the look out in the upcoming issues for more information about the tour.

Join Hoang Nguyen from Destination Journeys Vietnam and Glenn from The Travellers Hut on an 18 night fully escorted Authentic Vietnam journey, departing from Sydney on 8 March 2018. (Maximum 12 guests).

as we relax on our over night junk boat cruise. We will conclude our journey throughout Vietnam with 3 nights in the traditional and riverside town of Hoi An.

We will take you to vibrant Saigon and bustling Hanoi to experience city life, however for most of our 18 nights in Vietnam we’ll be travelling to the countryside visiting villages and farmlands.

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OP SHOP IT

IT’S National Op Shop Week from August 27 – September 2, so drop in to your favourite and find a treasure or leave some goods. Fairhaven Op Shop at Brisbane Water Dr, Point Clare, has to be one of the best, with all the expected clothing and collectable bargains, as well as the Vintage Fair Upcycle Shop and Old Schoolhouse second-hand books. Proceeds help Fairhaven support people with disabilities. Hours are Monday to Friday 9am–4pm and Saturday 9am–2pm. Call 4323 3566.

YARRAMALONG SPRING FEST

HOW long since you last ventured into the beautiful Yarramalong Valley? The valley is on show from August 26 – September 10 as part of the Yarramalong Valley Spring Festival, including its very popular scarecrow competition, art show, Spring Show including wood chop, classic cars, tractor display and live music, and the allimportant Spring Bake. Go

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FATHER’S DAY

SUNDAY, September 3 is Father’s Day, so don’t forget to treat hubby/dad to his favourite things. If he’s a car guy, you can’t go past Hoods Up for Father’s Day at Gosford Classic Car Museum.

Hoods are up and doors open so he gets a really

also meets on the first Wednesday of the month from 10.30am, and this time they are discussing Tim Winton’s Dirt Music.

Call 4304 7333.

STRING FEVER

to www.yarramalong valleyspringfestival. com.au.

THIS is an informal group that meets at Bateau Bay Library for an hour or two of relaxing colouring-in for adults. The library provides the designs and pencils, or you can bring your own. It’s at 10.30am September 2 and the first Saturday of every month.

Bookings are required.

Call 4350 1581. A similar group runs the second and fourth Tuesdays at The Entrance. Call 4350 1550.

Central Coast

STILL ROCKIN: Jade Hurley will be performing at the Laycock Street Community Theatre.

good look around the most spectacular collection in the Southern Hemisphere. Adults $20, kids 4–13 years $12 and families $55.

JADE’S STILL ROCKIN’

EVEN Johnny Cash was a fan of Jade Hurley’s showmanship. He gets the audience clapping their hands, stamping their feet, swaying, singing along and laughing from the first moment to the last. And he’s back at the Laycock Street Community Theatre from 2pm on September 3.

Adult tickets $39. Phone: 4323 3233.

BOOK-LOVERS

BOOK-LOVERS, your thoughts are needed.

Gosford Library Book Club is looking for new members to join in discussion of fascinating books old and new. This month’s book is Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. (If you haven’t time to read it, watch the movie this time and join in the fun!) The group meets from 10–11am at the library and refreshments are provided. Call 4304 7500.

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at Laycock Street Community Theatre. Adult tickets $60. Phone: 4323 3233.

GRANDMA MOSES ART

IF YOU like André Rieu, Morning Melodies has the show for you from 11am on September 6 at Laycock Street Community Theatre – String Fever, starring Jacqui and Brenton Edgecombe. The husband and wife team bring a new aspect to strings, with Brenton on fiddle and Jacqui on cello taking you from Bluegrass, to the Beatles, to the Blue Danube, plus a dazzling tribute to Elton John. Morning tea is included from 10am with tickets from just $13.

THE annual Grandma Moses art competition, open to residents over 50 across the Central Coast, this year offered $3000 in prizemoney, with the winner announced September 12. You can see what talents there are among us when all the paintings entered go on show at the Gosford 50+ Leisure and Learning Centre, 217 Albany St North, Gosford, from September 12-17.

Opening times are 10am–4pm weekdays and till 2pm weekends.

MICHAEL JACKSON LEGACY

NEWCOMERS WELCOME

THE closest thing you’ll get to seeing Michael Jackson, William Hall brings the King of Pop to the stage direct from the United States in Legacy.

There’s a live band, dance, and the music that spans generations. It’s from 8pm on September 6

IF YOU are new to the Coast, there’s a Retirees’ Meet and Greet at Erina Library from 10–11am on September 20. This is a great chance to get to know some new people with morning tea and a chat. Call 4304 7650 for details.

The ukulele brings smiles to seniors worldwide IT’S “the little string instrument that has brought happiness around the world”, according to Central Coast Ukulele Club founder Liz Kitney, and seniors love it.

In fact, seniors (including Liz) comprise the majority of the 300-strong club.

The attraction, she said, was that the uke was small and portable and therefore great for travelling, was easy to learn, easy to get your fingers around and made you friends wherever you went.

“It’s a phenomenon – wherever you take out a ukulele it makes people smile,” Liz said.

And there will be plenty of people smiling at this year’s free Central Coast Ukulele Festival at the Entrance on September 23–24.

The festival, now recognised as one of the world’s top 10, runs from 10am–10pm Saturday and 10am–4.30pm Sunday, with guests including renowned Hawaiian artist Walt

Keale, Bill Griffin from Sacramento and Adelaide’s Ukulele Death Squad.

“The festival has grown so much that we’ve had to open two more stages at the Old Bank Café and Mi Cantina, which we are calling Ukes in Cafes,” Liz said.

“There are also workshops at the Diggers on Thursday and a dinner show on Friday where you can get up close and personal with national and international guests.

(Bookings for these events are essential).

“It’s great entertainment and the festival is a great chance for people to learn about the ukulele and give it a try.”

Many members, she said, had always wanted to learn to play an instrument but work and family had gotten in the way.

“The ukulele gives you a fantastic opportunity to do that.

“You get instant results, because it’s the easiest instrument in the world to learn – it’s in the

WHY TRY IT? ★It’s fun ★Not complicated ★Compact, so it travels easily ★Musical ★A new skill ★Meet new people ★It’s not pretentious ★Makes you and others smile

MUSIC AROUND THE WORLD: Central Coast Ukulele Club founder Liz Kitney, front centre, with a number of the group and locals in Hawaii, just one of the places that loving ukes has taken them.

Guinness Book of Records – and you are getting off the couch and getting out and meeting people.”

Liz said that unlike the

guitar which took time to practice and master, the ukulele, with just four nylon strings, had a lot of one and two-finger chords.

“You can play about 10 songs with just one chord, and if you know four chords, you can play about 60, and everyone loves to sing along,” she said.

And the uke is also good for seniors’ mental and physical health.

“We have had people with dementia who’ve joined the club and they go back to their doctor and he asks ‘What have you been doing?

Whatever it is, keep it up’, because their condition has improved so much.

“We also have people who’ve lost partners and they come along and meet like-minded people and make wonderful

friendships.

“There are ukulele festivals all over the world, and you can go along and find you have instant friends. It brings people together.”

If you are a senior starting out, Liz suggests the tenor ukulele, which has a wider neck and more room to move your fingers, but there are a number of ukuleles to choose from including concert, tenor and baritone ukuleles, the guitarlele, banjolele and even a mandalele.

And for those who still have doubts, did you know The Beatles always travelled with a ukulele?

George Harrison reportedly said the ukulele was “the purest instrument” and he and Paul McCartney apparently wrote a number of songs on the ukulele, because they could always keep one on hand.

To find out more about the club, classes across the coast, or the festival, go to https:// central coastukuleleclub.com or call 0412 837 008.

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Reviews Tall tales and true stories

Thriller set in outback

HAMPSTEAD: A heart-warming and entertaining comedy.

Find the love at the movies

LOVE can grow where you least expect it.

The movie Hampstead, inspired by a true story, is artfully portrayed through the veteran actors Diane Keaton and Brendan Gleeson.

The is a romantic comedy set around the beautiful Hampstead Heath in London, a quiet piece of countryside in a vast metropolis. The landscape offers

another element of beauty and interest to this engaging film.

The story line follows American widow Emily Walters (Keaton), who is living in a lovely old apartment on the edge of the Heath, but this rich scenery is not enough to provide inner satisfaction, Walters feels like she is drifting aimlessly through life.

In contrast, there is Donald (Gleeson) who

has lived harmoniously in a ramshackle hut on the heath for 17 years.

Their meeting occurs when property developers attempt to destroy his home. Emily steps up to defend Donald in the escalating battle and soon finds that, despite his gruff exterior, there is something special about this unconventional man. Movie is now showing.

IN THIS sequel to the Never Never, Detective Harriet Blue must choose between saving her brother or saving a whole town.

The world’s best-selling thriller writer James Patterson once again joins forces with award-winning crime writer Candice Fox for a compulsive page-turner in the Australian outback.

It’s not easy being a good detective when your brother’s a serial killer.

Sam Blue stands accused of the murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River.

Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she’s determined to prove it.

Except she’s now been banished to the outback town of Last Chance Valley (population 75), where a diary found on the roadside outlines a shocking plan.

Penguin Random House, ebook or in bookshops. RRP $32.99.

Seventy-nine-year-old retired drover Charlie Bridge believes family is everything and it’s better to share your life experiences while it’s still on your mind. And Mr Bridge has achieved this by writing his moving and absorbing tall tales and true stories of how he overcame colossal adversity in his life to win through.

This way, other people can get a feel for the experiences of his life and apply some of the lessons he imparts, in their lives.

“The younger generations can hopefully then begin to understand older generations. Books like this can also open up the lines of communication between generations,” Mr Bridge said.

For those wanting to find out about Charlie’s book, Hard Knocks and Golden Opportunities, please phone 0438 749 638.

Romance, espionage TERRORISM, politics and betrayals collide in this must-read, fastpaced thriller from a highly recognisable political insider.

In September 1972, journalist Anna Rosen takes an early morning phone call from her boss at the ABC telling her about two bombings in Sydney’s busy CBD. It’s the worst terrorist attack in the country’s history and Anna has no doubt which group is responsible for the carnage. She has been investigating the role of alleged war criminals in the globally active Ustasha movement.

High in the Austrian Alps, guided by starlight and a crescent moon, Marin Katich is one of 20 would-be revolutionaries who slip stealthily over the border into Yugoslavia on a mission planned and funded in Australia that will have devastating consequences.

Allen & Unwin, RRP $32.99.

Ruby unites people she loves at culture festival RUBY Eaton is equally passionate about Australia and China, and each year helps others to learn the best of both cultures through the Central Coast Chinese Cultural Festival at the Entrance.

Ruby, 52, came to Australia about 13 years ago and loves her new home as much as the old.

“I still love China of course, but I love the Central Coast – the beautiful environment and fresh air, so this is my new home,” Ruby said.

“I work very hard to promote the area and this event so people can get to know each other and

COLOURFUL CULTURE: The Chinese lion dance is always guaranteed to draw a crowd.

appreciate the Chinese culture.”

The festival, from 10am–3pm on Sunday, September 17 is in its seventh year at The Entrance Memorial Park and entry is free.

The festival is organised by the China Australia Friendship Association, of which Ruby is president.

“We wanted to have a group so people of Chinese background could come together and share things and help other new residents to know Australian culture and values,” Ruby said.

“The festival is a chance for people to get

to know us.

“We think our culture is beautiful and we are very happy the festival is one special day when we can show that and share it with other people.”

Those people, she said, were of all ages but especially seniors and families.

This year’s festival will include the ever-colourful and dramatic lion dancing, martial arts, Chinese dance troupes and bands, traditional Chinese opera and other performances.

There’s also wonderful Chinese food to taste, teas, herbal medicines, crafts and instruments to admire.

Each year the event also celebrates The Moon Festival, the second most important Chinese festival after New Year, when families traditionally gather and admire the beauty of the full moon and eat moon cake – a special sweet pastry you can sample at the festival.

But while it remains the focus, it is not just Chinese culture on show, with the festival now the biggest multi-cultural festival on the Central Coast, with other nationalities taking part including Aboriginal, Indian, Philippine and African.

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Easy cooking for your Vegan visitors THE first thing I do when inviting people over is to ask if they have any food allergies or food preferences.

It can be very difficult to know what to cook if you are not familiar with a life choice. The most important thing is not to panic.

Ask the questions of what they can eat and go from there. And, if in doubt, salads, tofu, vegie pizza, pumpkin soup or roast vegetables are always a winner.

Don’t forget to read the labels of any purchased products and see if they are suitable for your guest. There are so many pre-packaged choices in the supermarket for you to choose from as well.

If your grandchildren are vegan, hummus dip and carrot sticks or celery is a nice snack. Pasta with vegetable sauces or a vegie stack are easy enough to make.

Beware of products with gelatine as it is an animal by-product and use a good stock. A good brand for this is Massel as the liquid stocks are glutenfree and, because they are vegetable-based, are suitable for vegetarians and vegans.

Vegans do not eat any animal products. A healthy

HOME COOKING CHRISTINE PERKIN

and varied vegan diet includes fruits, vegetables, plenty of leafy greens, wholegrain products, nuts, seeds, and legumes.

BRUSCHETTA

Ingredients 4 medium tomatoes, diced Fresh basil leaves, torn 2 garlic cloves, crushed Sea salt 1 baguette 6 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil Balsamic glaze Method Combine tomatoes, basil, garlic and sprinkle liberally with salt. . Set aside in the fridge. Slice the bread into thick slices. Grill or toast the slices until they’re golden on both sides. Just before serving, add the olive oil to the tomato mix and stir through, then drizzle with balsamic glaze. Arrange bread on a platter, spoon on the tomato mix and serve immediately.

TOFU AND VEGGIE STACK

1 Tub store-bought Hommus dip 300g sweet potato, peeled, cut into 12 rounds 2 zucchini, trimmed, cut lengthways into 8 slices 1 small eggplant, trimmed, cut into 4 thick slices, lengthwise 250g firm tofu, cut into 8 slices 1 cup tomato passata 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil 1 garlic clove, crushed 100g mixed salad leaves, to serve Method Place the sweet potato in a heatproof dish with

water. Cover and microwave on High for 1 1/2-2 minutes or until almost tender. Drain. Heat a chargrill or barbecue on high heat. Spray the zucchini, eggplant, tofu and sweet potato lightly with oil. Grill for 2 minutes each side or until lightly charred and tender.

Combine the passata, basil and garlic in a bowl.

Place the eggplant slices on the prepared tray.

Spread eggplant with half of the hommus, top each with 2 zucchini slices.

Spread with half the passata. Top with the tofu slices, remaining hommus, sweet potato

slices and the remaining passata. Bake the stack for 15 minutes or until golden and bubbling. Top with basil leaves and serve with mixed salad leaves.

COCONUT TAPIOCA

Ingredients 100g Seed Tapioca (Sago) 400ml can coconut milk 1 teaspoon of vanilla bean paste 1/3 cup palm sugar, finely chopped 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 mangoes sliced Small mint leaves, to serve

Method Combine the tapioca, coconut milk, vanilla bean paste and 1 cup (250ml) water in a large saucepan.

Set aside for 30 minutes to soak. Place over medium heat and bring to a simmer. Reduce heat to low. Cook, stirring occasionally, for 15 minutes or until tapioca is transparent. Remove from heat. Add the sugar and salt, stir to combine. Set aside for 10 minutes to cool. Transfer to a bowl and place in the fridge for 1 hour to cool completely.

Top with sliced mango and mint.

A cookbook can travel through the generations IF YOU consider yourself a budding MasterChef or just have too many recipes on hand waiting on a rainy day, try creating a customised recipe book.

Before starting your cookbook, think about what function it will have – a keepsake, or a gift for family and friends.

Your cookbook can be filled with family recipes you have been given, have collected from friends or torn out of magazines over the years.

You can add photos and indulge in food styling, straight out of Donna Hay. Let’s look at these easyas-pie ideas on how you can put together your own masterpiece.

offer free services for signing up to their site.

More details available from websites like: momento.com.au, myfoodbook.com.au, mycookbook-online.net, thesecretIngredients.com blurb.com, or shutterfly.com.

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ONLINE PUBLISHING SITES:

These photobook creation websites feature the tools and templates for you to create your own cookbook.

Add recipes, photos, textured backgrounds and more to create a bound book. You may need to download software.

Costs can start from $25, depending on the software, or some may

BINDER BOOK

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Customise your own recipe book with a little creative input and love.

Purchase a binder or bound notebook with clear pockets and pages.

This is a good format for a functional cookbook.

Gather recipes and place them in the pockets where they are protected from kitchen splatter.

You could create more than one binder book depending on the

frequency of use.

You might prefer to have one for daily/weekly use, as opposed to your alltime favourites, or you can separate into sweet and savoury recipes.

SCRAPBOOK

Buy a scrapbook and you can handwrite the recipes straight on the page or glue them on.

A keepsake scrapbook is less for kitchen use and more for keeping track of family history.

You can use scrapbooking materials, such as stamps, stickers, ribbons and paper to artistically show your cooking traditions.

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Senior Australian award proving catalyst for change Tracey Johnstone

AUSTRALIA’S Senior Citizen of the Year in 2017, Sr Anne Gardiner, is on the move utilising her national profile to benefit the Tiwi indigenous community on Bathurst Island.

As a result of this award and through the generosity of Richard Rolfe OAM, the dealer principal at the Audi Centre Canberra, Sr Anne has been gifted a 4WD scooter which will allow her to activate a new project where she will meet and talk with every Tiwi person between the ages of 18 and 35 about self-esteem, motivation, and mutual respect.

“I will sit down and talk to the people to see if I can help them to understand the world that they are living in,” Sr Anne said.

“These people can be leaders in their own right.

Their ideas have got to be listened to. Let’s give them a fair go.

“I will be able to take what they tell me, decipher it and then say, if the Tiwi people allow me to do it, these are their thoughts regarding the situation they are finding themselves them.”

Sr Anne is understated in her acceptance of the prestigious award, but when it comes to the Tiwi people she has no qualms about using the award to have her concerns for their future heard.

The 86-year-old moved to Bathurst Island when she was 22 as a member of the Daughters of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart.

She remembers the community didn’t have much, but they shared everything.

But now she sees money has had the biggest negative impact on the Tiwi people.

“We have become individualistic and I see family breakdowns, not only on Bathurst Island, but also in my own family.

“We seem to be forgetting that the core of society is family and I think individualism is wrecking it.”

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Respect has to come back into the vocabulary of all of us....

Sr Anne has a one word answer for this problem: respect.

The senior members of the Bathurst Island community are gravely concerned about the loss of language and culture, and the loss of respect for the elders.

“Respect has to come back into the vocabulary of all of us. Once that respect goes, what have we got?”

She is also calling on medical professionals to make the time to sit down with the Tiwi people to talk to the them about their health issues and options.

“They have leaders in their own community. They have to look at this very seriously and say, ‘what can we do to better our health?’,” she said.

Sr Anne is seeing the community elders starting to take charge of trying to turn around their problems by working on the younger generations retaining the Tiwi language and culture.

In support of these community elders wanting to turn around the cultural

SENIOR AUSTRALIAN: Sister Anne Gardiner remains proud of her faith and of the Tiwi people's willingness to safeguard their language and culture.

PHOTO: PAUL HICKEY.

outgoing tide, in March this year she handed custodianship of the people’s Patakijiyali Museum to a group of four “strong” women so they could continue to collect and preserve Tiwi artefacts and stories.

She still has an ongoing connection to the museum through the family tree project where each family will receive a copy of their family tree.

“The women are working on computers, trying to get the family trees finished. They are also working on story books and a calendar for next year.

“I see great potential for that museum.”

Before her reign as Senior Australian of the Year finishes in January, Sr Anne wants so very

Sister Anne Gardiner with students from Murrupurtiyanuwu Catholic School which is a Catholic primary school from preschool (aged 4 years) to Year 6 and managed by a Tiwi leadership team.

PHOTO: COURTESY OF MURRUPURTIYANUWU CATHOLIC SCHOOL

much to see one thing change among the Tiwi community; she wants to

see respect return for its elders.

“If they can respect

themselves first, then they will really know who they are,” she added.

Get excited for September!

Next month we catch up with Don Burke as he talks about his passions.

Pick up your free copy of the September edition at your local stockist or read online at seniorsnews.com.au LIVING + MONEY + WELLBEING + TraVEL

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We discuss his success pioneering Burke’s Backyard lifestyle show, helping seniors create the world’s easiest vegetable gardens, breeding colourful budgerigars, and his home garden. Plus we find out what happened to all those jumpers he used to wear during his 18 years on air with Burke’s Backyard.

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2. Which composer had first names Johann Sebastian?

3. The Roman numeral L represents which number?

4. Sheriff Pat Garrett shot and killed which famous figure on July 14, 1881?

5. Which Italian city hosted the 2006 Winter Olympics?

6. How many sides has a trapezium?

7. What does an anemometer measure – atmospheric pressure, wind speed, or altitude?

8. What three main ingredients are added to mayonnaise to make a Waldorf salad?

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The challenge is to rearrange a crossword which has been broken into 25 sections. One letter has been given to get you started. Work out which 3x3 square fits in with that letter and write in the letters.

You can also shade the black squares if you find it helpful.

After completing the first 3x3 area, work out which square joins on to it, and continue until you have made a complete crossword.

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Epitomise 21. Unwed 22. Agitator.

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Skews 17. Steer 19. Lost.

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VIETNAM EXPLORER $2,625

15 Day Tour

VIETNAM gOLf TOuR

Dep. Oct 18 & Mar 12 $4370

12 Day Tour

CANAdA & ALAskAN CRuIsE Dep. Feb 20 $6585

Flying Singapore Airlines into Saigon and out Flying Cathay Pacific into Saigon & out of of Hanoi plus 2 flights within Vietnam. 4 nights Hanoi plus 2 flights within Vietnam. 11 day Saigon, 4 nights Hanoi, 4 nights Hoi An, Vietnam tour. 4 rounds of golf at Vietnam’s top 1 night Halong Bay with cruise. golf courses. Luxury accommodation.

INsIdE VIETNAM $3,985

20 Day Tour

Dep. Feb 19

sOuTh AMERICA

Flying Singapore Airlines into Saigon and out $11695 22 Day Tour

22 Day Tour

Dep. May 7

Flying Air Canada into Vancouver. 17 day tour of western Camada & the Rockies. 8 day Alaskan cruise of the Inside Passage.

ThAILANd & ThE ChIANg MAI fLORAL fEsTIVAL

$3,290 2 Week Tour Dep. Jan 31 Dep. Mar 5 Flying Thai into Bangkok plus a flight

of Hanoi. 18 day coach & air tour of Vietnam. Flying Qantas & Lan Airlines into Santiago.

For this tour there is no extra charge for Plus 5 flights within South America. A superb travellers requiring a single room. tour of Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil & Argentina.

3 optional extensions to the Galapogas sRI LANkA (CEyLON) $4,575 16 Day Tour Dep. Mar 17 Islands, the Amazon and Patagonia Flying Singapore Airlines into Colombo. VIETNAM & CAMbOdIA AdVENTuRE TOuR 14 day coach & rail tour of this beautiful $4875 24 Day Tour Dep. Mar 8 country.

Flying Singapore Airlines into Hanoi & out ChINA wITh yANgTzE CRuIsE of Siem Reap plus 2 flights within Vietnam. $3,655 15 Day Tour Dep. Apr 24 19 day Vietnam tour “off the beaten track”.

Flying China Eastern Airlines into Shanghai 4 day Cambodia tour with Angkor Wat. & out of Beijing, plus 3 flights within China.

Includes 4 night first class Yangtze River bALkANs & dALMATIAN COAsT cruise. Tipping included. $7295 3 Week Tour Dep. Apr 19

TAsMANIA

within Thailand. 4 days Chiang Mai for their spectacular floral festival. 2 days River Kwai, 4 day coach tour of northern Thailand, 2 nights in beach resort on Gulf of Siam.

buRMA (MyANMAR) $4,580

2 Week Tour

Dep. Nov 6

Flying Thai into Rangoon plus 3 flights in Burma. 12 day Burma tour by coach, plane & boat. 2 nights Bangkok.

INdIA $5,265

19 Day Tour

Dep. Nov 16 & Mar 22

Flying Singapore Airlines into Delhi & out of Bombay plus 3 flights within India. 16 day coach, plane & boat tour of India. 2 days Singapore.

Flying Qatar Airlines into Zagreb & out of ACROss AMERICA $4,195 12 Day Tour Dep. Feb 13 Athens. 17 day tour of Croatia, Montenegro, $7,295 29 Day Tour Dep. May 8 Flying Virgin Australia into Launceston. Bosnia, Serbia, Macedonia & Greece plus 2 Flying Qantas into New York & out of Los Places visited include Launceston, Hobart, nights Athens.

Angeles. 25 Day coach tour right across Port Arthur, Strahan, Cradle Mountain and a U.S.A. including Yellowstone, Grand Teton, RussIAN wATERwAys Gordon River cruise. $6295 20 Day Tour Dep. May 3 Bryce Canyon, Zion & Grand Canyon National IsRAEL & JORdAN Parks. 2 days Disneyland area.

Flying Qantas & Finnair into Moscow & out $7995 20 Day Tour Dep. Feb 18 EgyPT of Helsinki. 12 day Moscow to St Petersburg Flying Emirates into Amman. 5 day Jordan $5,655 20 Day Tour Dep. Nov 9 river cruise. Stopovers in Hong Kong, Helsinki tour including Petra. 12 day Israel tour. 2 day Flying Emirates into Cairo. 15 day Egypt tour & Singapore.

Dubai stopover. including a 4 day cruise from Luxor to Aswan.

ThAILANd AT LEIsuRE 3 days Dubai including a tour to Abu Dhabi. sOuTh AMERICA Dep. Mar 14 4-5 star luxury accommodation. $11,495 23 Day Tour Dep. Oct 8. $2680 2 Week Tour Flying Qantas & Latam into Santiago. A Flying Singapore Airlines into Bangkok. superb tour of South America by plane, coach 6 nights Bangkok, 4 nights beach resort, & rail, visiting Chile, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, 2 nights Rose Garden Resort, 1 night River Kwai. and Argentina.

sOuTh AfRICA

NEw zEALANd

16 Day Tour

Dep. Nov 21 & Feb 23

19 Day Tour

$3,345

15 Day Tour

Dep. Jan 30

Flying Singapore Airlines into Phnom Penh.

14 day overland tour of Cambodia. Small group tour.

Dep. May 3 VIETNAM OVERLANd Dep. Nov 6 & Jan 28 Flying Air NZ into Christchurch & out of Flying Qantas into Johannesburg plus 3 flights $3,815 3 Week Tour $4,845

$7865

CAMbOdIA IN dEPTh

Auckland. 16 day coach tour of New Zealand, within Africa. 2 week tour fro Johannesburg to Flying Singapore Airlines into Saigon & out of including 4 cruises and the Transalpine Capetown. 3 days Victoria Falls. Game viewing Hanoi. 19 day coach tour of Vietnam. Halong in Kruger, Hluhluwe & Chobe National Parks. Bay cruise. Optional extension to Angkor Wat. rail trip.

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The prices listed mainly include return air fares from Sydney, Melbourne & Brisbane, airport taxes & fuel levies, good twin share accom., many meals, all transfers, tipping, Australian tour escort & local tour guides.