Australia's Oldest Budgie
According to the Guinness Book of Records the oldest budgerigar ever lived in England. He was called Charlie, and he reached the ripe old age of 29 years and 2 months. You might remember that Don was interested to find out if there are any ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
The Innocent Traveller
Precocious in childhood, irrepressible in old age, Miss Topaz Edgeworth's singular accomplishment is to live out an entire century in unflagging - and mostly oblivious - optimism. At once outmoded and unconventional, tyrannical and benign, Topaz ... [... more]
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Claire Davis
Notes From the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty Kim Barnes and Claire Davis "How could 'old age' be a medical diagnosis when I wasn't even forty?" "... if aging is difficult for those of us who were only sometimes cute,& [... more]
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