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This site has been created for SENIORS....by SENIORS......and in the interests of SENIORS!
The content includes items from International Senior groups or experts in the field of Senior matters.
Also included in National matters are items from Australian seniors groups and much information relevant for the seniors.
Western Australia also has a Seniors page, part of which includes the City of Mandurah......full of information!
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TOTAL CORPORATE RESPONSIBILITY [TCR]........'INTERNATIONAL matters'
"IFA" - 7th Global conference, Sept 2004 in Singapore.....'INTERNATIONAL matters'
CIVIL SOCIETY PHILOSOPHY......'INTERNATIONAL matters'
SOCIAL and CIVIL DEMOCRACY......'NATIONAL matters'
"Selling what the people want"
NEW.....Disclosure REQUIREMENTS for SHARES and DEBENTURES......NATIONAL matters
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Page contents:
Ageing Conferences......IFA and INPEA
Civil Society Philosophy Health and Ageing
International Seniors Groups by country
Social Research update To go to NATIONAL matters.........click on
Page contents:
Attitude, Lifestyle & Community Support
Elder Abuse
Finance
Health
Legal Jargon
Social and Civil Democracy
Retirement Villages around Australia
NEWS.....Seniors groups.
Volunteering in Aust. To go to WESTERN AUSTRALIAN matters ...........click on
Page contents:
Aged & Security in WA
Gardening - WA wildflowers and more.
Finance & Business
Health and Welfare
Rural communities and Info.
Travel in WA
Volunteering in WA
To go to MANDURAH matters (our city)........click on Local service groups......including FIBROMYALGIA SUPPORT GROUP.
Play Area for Seniors
This is a new area to while away idle time.
Weekly Horoscopes.
Sun enters Aquarius on Tuesday 20th (until 19th Feb). This encourages people to be more mindful of the plight of others It's a phase that heightens social awareness. People tend to think harder about the information they receive and are more conscientous. Old social structures, such as the class system, carry less weight. It's a time when relationships take precedent. It's no surprise then that this phase includes 'Burns night' and 'Valentine's Day'.Check your Horoscope out with Anna Estaroth of BBC-Webplay. ......Click here!
Cards anyone??
Interactive card games from Woodlands Junior School...........Click here!
Crosswords anyone??
Interactive crosswords at The Herald, (Java Required).....Click here!
Ye Olde Sayings.
"Black market"
In medieval England there were nomadic mercenaries who wandered the country side and would sell their services to the highest bidder. These were hardened fighters who lived solitary lives in the wilderness. They did not have the luxury of servants to polish their armor and it would oxidize to a blackish hue, and they came to be known as black knights. At local town festivals they would have exhibition jousting matches in which the winner of the fight would win the loser's weapons and armor. The local gentry, softened by the good life, would lose to these black knights. The nomadic knights didn't have much use for an extra set of armor and would sell it back to them immediately after the fight. The losing nobility would be forced to buy back their armor and this after market came to be known as the "Black Market""Son of a gun".
After sailors had crossed the Atlantic to the West Indies, they would take the native women on board the ship and have their way with them in between the cannons. Some of the women the sailors left behind would have boys, who were called sons between the guns.
Just for Fun!
Family Riddles.
This page has been added.....for lighter moments.
To read Family riddles........Click Here!
The Good Old Days!
If you lived as a child in the 40's, 50's, 60's or 70's, looking back, it's hard to believe that we have lived as long as we have...As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags
Riding in the back of a ute on a warm day was always a special treat.
Our cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paint. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors, or cupboards, and when we rode our bikes we had no helmets.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle. Horrors!
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill; only to find out we forgot the brakes.
After running into the bushes a few times we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. No mobile phones. Unthinkable!We got cut, broke bones and broke teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents. They were accidents. No one was to blame, but us.
Remember accidents?
We had fights and punched each other and got black and blue and learned to get over it.
We ate patty cakes, bread and butter, and drank cordial, but we were never overweight...we were always outside playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one died from this.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo 64, X-Boxes, video games, 65 channels on pay TV, video tape movies, surround sound, personal mobile phones, Personal Computers, Internet chat rooms ... we had friends. We went outside and found them.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's home and knocked on the door, or rung the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.
Imagine such a thing. Without asking a parent! By ourselves!
Out there in the cold cruel world! Without a guardian - how did we do it?
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls, and ate worms, and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes, nor did the worms live inside us forever.
Footy and netball had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't, had to learn to deal with disappointment.....
Some students weren't as smart as others so they failed a grade and were held back to repeat the same grade. Tests were not adjusted for any reason.Our actions were our own. Consequences were expected. No one to hide behind.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of.
They actually sided with the law - imagine that!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever.
The past 50 years has been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.And you're one of them. Congratulations!
Please pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives....... for our own good.....????.
OK....Check this out!
Looking at a picture on the wall...."Brothers and sisters have I none, but that mans father is my fathers son."
Jokes and Humour!
Grandma and Grandpa were sitting in their porch rockers while watching the beautiful sunset and reminiscing about "the good old days".
Grandma turned to Grandpa and said, "Honey, do you remember when we first started dating? You used to just casually reach over and take my hand?"
Grandpa looked over at her, smiled and obligingly took her aged hand in his.
Growing bolder still, Grandma said, "Honey, do you remember when we were first married? You'd kind of nibble on my ear?" Grandpa slowly got up from his rocker and headed into the house.
Alarmed, Grandma said, "Honey, where are you going?"
Grandpa replied, "To get my teeth!"
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
- George Bernard Shaw
Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. - Phyllis Diller
When a blind man carries a lame man, both go forward. "POINT OF VIEW"
The view after 70 is breathtaking.
What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscope of the past.
There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters."
William Maxwell. Source APSL.
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