Broadband for Seniors. 06/07/2010
 Broadband for Seniors The internet provides many opportunities for older Australians to stay connected with families and friends, access information, and to perform activities such as banking and shopping online. It is therefore important that seniors are able to use the internet safely and securely. The following top tips will help older internet users stay smart online:
 Reg and I have had a lovely day, here at Half Way Creek, free campsite no 43 in the Camps Australia Wide book, NSW section. It is a rest area 27 km SE of Grafton or 29 km North of Woolgoolga. Even in a free bush camp I have access to my website to update it with my travel news and photos.  Half Way Creek, is near a service centre with full facilities, see photo and it is in the Telstra mobile internet range so we have set up the generator and I have been able to work on line on and off through the day. Such is the amazing nature of wireless internet connection. Wonderful to have an office in the bush, complete with wildlife.  It is quite amazing that with internet connection and website hosting I can work on my blogs wherever I am as long as I have a wireless or satelight signal. Web hosting, is one of the most important functions in the website process, allows website owners to put up their creative masterpieces Trying to identify a web host can be a very daunting task especially when there are so many available nowadays and all of them promise one thing or another because looking for and buying a reliable web hosting solution is an imperative decision.  I used to pay hundreds of dollars a year for business web hosting but now, having gone on line and searched Independent reviews of the best web-hosting providers, I found cheap professional web hosting services under $10 a month. All these webhosting plans include at least one, free domain name registration and 30-day money back guarantee. I am delighted with the highly affordable domain web hosting I now use and suggest that even a gray nomad just wanting to do a travel blog to share with family and friends could afford one of these websites and domains. If you would love to blog your gray nomad, travels, check out the website hosting independent reviews of the best web-hosting providers for a good cheap professional web hosting services. Photo below shows our car and caravan with the Honda 20i generator that powers my computer, chained to the draw bar.  SKI Club Members 04/15/2010
 There is a bit of a funny story to Reg and I purchasing a George Forman grill and roaster oven a few years ago, for our caravan kitchen. We told both our daughters that we were going shopping with the intention of buying one or the other. We were advised by one daughters, that we could just use non stick foil and cook on our existing frypan and save out money. OK, well meant advice, but we wanted to buy one or the other, not seek a low cost alternative. Our second daughter, equally caring in her nature, advised us to go to the Warehouse and purchase a no name product to do a similar job as the more common grill. At that stage, the oven was a new concept and there were no low cost versions we liked. Somehow, Reg and I felt a little rebellious, at being in our 60's and often being advised by thirty something’s as to how to manage our money so after a quick check of the fo one daughter spoke of and the warehouse the other mentioned we headed to the department store and joined the SKI Club. We became official members of the Spending the Kids Inheritance Club and in buying both, went over our budget and we have never regretted ether purchase, nor the fun we had, laughing at our 'rebellion at being told how to spend our money, by our own 'kids'. :-). . Tonight’s chicken dinner was a free range, organic local chicken, and it was divine, cooked without any salt or seasoning, just onions and potatoes cooked in the pot with it and all the fat drains out into the dish beneath the roaster, making it low fat cooking. Delicious! :-). PS. We LOVE our children :-) and understand they meant only to have given us good advice, :-).   Georgia, Pastel on watercolour paper, by Kathy Shell, a QUICK (1 hour), colour sketch, Reg and I had a beautiful early afternoon, meeting my facebook friend, Shelley and her two beautiful daughters at SPC Ardmona, Kidstown at Mooroopna, not far from my summer retreat. The girls were, as I said, beautiful and I got some wonderful photo opportunities while they were having lunch, playing in the equipment, waiting for them riding on the Kids Town train. One sure does not need to worry about trying to find safe diet pills with young children playing in a huge playground like Kidstown, there was lots of moving around, and adrenalin stimulation, just trying to keep track of where the girls were playing, so many adventure areas. Sure, enough it was only a matter of time, before this darling young girl, was missing and the announcement went over the loudspeaker to keep a look out for a little girl in a pink and blue dress. She was not lost, she knew exactly where she was all the timeJ, right up the top of the slide...and it is some slide, more like a big hill. By the time the girls and Shelley had completed the Kids Town train ride I was feeling ‘inspired’, said I had to get home to work...and work I have been doing. Capturing the innocent, ‘butter would not melt in my mouth’, J, look of the sweet little, wandered away from her big sister and mum, to play on her own, (and scare the living daylights out of her, mum), little girl. It was a lovely day, I was so lucky :-). Lol, Shelley’s two young adult friend made my day by saying they thought I was under 50, lol, and here I am topping mid 60’s. (got to love flattery, J ) . Reg and I didn’t have the tiring drive all the way to Shepparton with little children asking ‘are we there yet’ lol, J, nor tired children on the long return trip. I hope Shelley can pop her feet up tonight and relax; she did a great job, as mum’s do, entertaining the girls, giving them a wonderful experience. As you know, I love to turn my art works into cards, fridge magnets, sometimes postcards and prints. This picture lends itself to a card, I am thinking Happy Birthday and a fridge magnet, see my magnets a http://www.fridgemagnetart.com and that’s where I would love my readers help. I can only use short quotes as these are business card size magnets and I only have the background area suitable for writing. As I said, I would LOVE your comments and if I use the quote you suggest to go with this picture, I will contact you for your address and send you one of the works and words, fridge magnets I make up.  A pastel work on progress, in Kathy Shell's studio, referenced from the on location meeting and photo of Georgia.  The little Willy Wagtail is a common sight in the bushland around Moroopna. Last year Reg and I set up as market stallholders at the once a month market at SPC Ardmona, Kidstown at Mooroopna, in the city of Shepparton. We sold some of our downsizing paraphernalia; I was surprised at how much we sold, also the variety of stalls. There was the typical make, grow or bake stalls but you were allowed to sell just about anything, there was everything there from A for acne solutions to Z for zebras, well timber ones anyhow J. Shepparton 1st Sunday Market Time: 8.00am - 12.00pm Venue: SPC Ardmona KidsTown -Jan Maude Lawns Admission: Gold Coin per person Stallholders can enjoy this great outdoor venue, with easy access and ample parking. Single stallholder sites - from $20.00 Bookings are essential, please contact the Market Manager on 0419 524 841 for all enquires. If Reg had not come home from our last tour with whooping cough, we would have got straight back into a once a month market at Kids Town. I would have booked one or two art classes, of art students there. If that had happened I would not have spent as much time as I have, developing my ten blogs or planning our 2010 review tour of dog friendly caravan parks. So everything has worked out for the creative best, for us, one opportunity not taken up and another one opens, an opportunity, (writing sales), which fits in with a touring gray nomad, so easily and I am loving the new direction this has taken me on. I am going out with Reg to SPC Ardmona Kidstown in Mooroopna, tomorrow, to meet up with a face book friend and her children. I will take some photos to share here in this blog. It is a great place to visit with a family. We had a family Christmas party there once, everyone took a plate, we set up at the picnic tables for lunch, and our grandchildren went on train rides after we had eaten, it was so enjoyable. I am looking forward to sharing the Kidstown story with you tomorrow night. Ardmona Kidstown is a million dollar children's playground located in Greater Shepparton, Victoria Australia, boasting a vast number of play areas to suit all ages. it currently attracts over 150,000 visitors a year. Midland Highway Shepparton VIC 3632 Australia Grannys brag blog. 12/28/2009
 Graduation bear and small copy of High Achievers award. Nothing is more important, in my life, than my family. I doubt there are any gray-nomads out there who do not feel the same, even though many of us travel the country far from our families with SKI (Spending the children’s inheritance)CLUB. member, signs, on the back of our caravans. This year the Christmas get together has included watching the videos of two of my grandchildren’s graduation from primary school and going over their plans for high school next year and hearing of their ambitions for the future. In 2010, three out of my four grandchildren will be teenagers. It only seems a few years ago, it was baby announcements, not graduations and honours. TNow David the eldest is a young man with a man’s voice and manner and an aspiration for a career in I.T. The eldest girl has worked hard to be accepted into the high achievers class in the high school and she was the female ‘dux’ of her graduating class and has had her name mounted on a permanent plaque at the primary school as a graduating high achiever. Only one boy and one girl are chosen, from the grade six, graduating group for that honour and she was given a miniature version of the trophy to keep. The two grand children who are moving on to high school this year are both keen writers and one is an aspiring novelist, who achieves academic excellence awards consistently and also artistic merit awards. It is only a few years ago that we would sit and paint together; I treasure the memories of these moments. Now the youngest granddaughter is the little ballerina, and her older brother is keen on his football and both are involved in Cubs and Scouts, (forgive a mere grand mum for not being sure which exactly they are in). All the grandchildren are special to Reg and me, as are our two daughters and two great SIL’s. Christmas was wonderful as usual for us this year, a great catch up with family, share what the grandchildren have done and plan to do, and a time to strive to soak up as much of the wonderful family feeling as we can, to last us when we are travelling North and only have the internet and phone to keep in touch. Christmas is a 'feel good', time for Reg and I as we are fortunate to have family we love, close to us, at this time of year.     Christmas with the family | Kathy Shell on Facebook  Advertisers, This 160 x 160 advertising space, could be yours. See our advertising page above then contact Kathy to arrange your advertising package. Kathy Shell,
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