Last weekend, a woman known to be the World's oldest blogger died at 10 years in a nursinghome north of Sydney.  She had only been in the nursing home for 1 week before she passed away of a chest infection.

Here is Sydney at least the last few years on her birthday she has celebrated a public birthday with the news services covering her family gatherings.  Olive led a fairly public life deciding to engage in creating a blog of her life.

Summer's claim to be an "old man" has worried me - especially as he doesn't sound old - well neither does Olive.  So it leave me with the question of the importance of attitude to aging.  Olive had a tough working class life - and she was a tough character.  Known to have "flattened" a couple of people in her life - including her husband's mistress when finding out they had an affair (she and Olive had been best friends).  Olive was a single mum of three kids in the 30's and worked as a bar maid until her early 70's when she retired.  

I admit to being sad that Olive has passed away - I quite enjoyed her blogs and yarns - so in case you are interested here is the link to the You Tube site

 http://au.youtube.com/blog?entry=2ViKujfxF0s

I admit I really have a strong soft spot for the elderly and worry about the way at least here in Australia they seem to be the unseen people in our community.  This part at least is all about attitude!  a bad one at that.

I suspect that aging is a mixture of both feeling and attitude but I wonder if I could ever sustain such a positive attitude for so long.  What about you?  Forward with boldness!  UM xx

Jomo, you don't sound old either, my dear! :) Strong and vibrant, warm and humourous...:) (oh smile again why don't I?)

I sometimes feel very old - in my body. In my head, I don't think I've got past being a young teenager. Skipped the older teenage years and went back to being younger when I wondered if I really had grown up yet. Sound confusing - so it is. It would be good to have a second childhood now, because I think, if my body can't keep up and do what I need without so much complaining, I'd rather not live to be old. Really, it's okay with me if I don't.

-Mebenji

Evening/Morning um' 'Guten Tag',

'Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now'. Mr Dylan has so many of the answers, and quite a few questions I am still working on.

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