I have to confess right up front, I love today’s technology. The PC, laptop, iPad and the iPhone are an important part of my lifestyle. Buying and selling on ebay, using Kindle to order and read books, buying DVD’s on line and receiving them through the post and subscribing to articles and blogs make my […]

  Welcome to Art in the Park, Niki McDonald is also known as Tapestry Girl.  Niki’s work can also be viewed on her Facebook page or Instagram account. Niki won the 2014 Waverley Art Prize for Mixed Media with her Tapestry work ‘Domestic Bliss’. Niki says her Pop Art style reflects “…the design elements of tagging, graffiti and […]

It’s So Easy To Be Dairy Free I have been a Vegan for the past 20 years. Being a Vegan, according to the Vegetarian and Vegan Foundation (VVF) is “ choosing not to eat animal products, fish and other water creatures, eggs, dairy and insect products such as honey and cochineal.” As I enjoy cooking […]

  Every person goes to death bearing in their hands only that which they have given away.  Persian proverb When someone experiences loss, the world changes in an instant. We will all come face to face with grief at some stage of our lives. Although grief is most closely associated with the coping with the […]

The Collected Stories of Stefan Zweig and Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig – Reviewed by David Edwards One of the hit films of 2014 has been The Grand Budapest Hotel, directed by Wes Anderson.  The film is set in the years prior to and during WW2 and is based upon the work of Stefan Zweig; the most […]

  All is Lost – Reviewed by David Edwards All is Lost is the most recent production featuring Robert Redford and received many glowing reviews when premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013. This story is a most unusual production from many perspectives. The story involves an unnamed yachtsman (played by Robert Redford) sailing […]

  I laughed when this cartoon was sent to Fifty Five Plus, but not for long!  Having upgraded to windows version 8 and getting completely bogged down,  I rang my daughter who then asked her 11 year old for instructions for me. It was almost the exact words of the cartoon.  ‘No Nana Listen, Double-Click […]

When Ian MacRae and his partner Carol Cook booked a holiday to Antarctica they expected an adventure but what eventuated was beyond all expectations and created news headlines around the world for many days. This is their story: Photography  & Story by Ian MacRae On December 8th 2013 the Russian ice hardened research vessel, the Akademik […]