Spending my pre-dotage occasionally commenting on OLO is more than a privilege for this punter. With a world renowned Submarine Matters website to boot http://gentleseas.blogspot.com.au/ .

Though I cannot claim to be a "superannuant" understood to be a species of rare dugong lungfish that covertly populates that artesian bore below Pine Gap.

Poida Esq.

plantagenet & Ross Elliot, one week ago i was downstairs cleaning paint off all the cars under the building. All had been splashed with artist paint by some alienated youth stolen from the local youth centre conveniently located where the gang can get together & terrorize the neighbourhood.

is everything invented by socialists, antisocial?

Dearest imacentristmoderate.

You are clearly a greeny, Trotskyite, commie person.

I voted for the Liberals/Abbott last election and will again.

Yours

Poida

plantagenet, i wasn't blaiming you, just telling the story.

A few weeks ago the hammer from heaven hit me turning all my 72 year old muscles that still worked ,hopefully occasionally, into jelly!

Living alone has some compensations, but not right then. As I lay on my floor barely conscious and wondering what the hell had just happened? I worked out that I lay just under my phone and may have been able to reach it and summon help. But realized that they'd have to break a door down to get in.

It was then I started the longest Marathon I'd ever completed. I'd run over fifty miles in a go regularly when I was younger, and before I hurt my spine.

The back door was only 40 odd feet from where I lay to the back door which I believed I could still open.

It took 3 Thoroughly exhausting hours to reach it, doing an amazing inch a minute. Using my atrophied and continually cramping hamies and my elbows, which still worked in a manner of speaking, so to speak.

Eventually a near neighbor, Sophie, arrived and having spotted me lying there, inquired if I needed an ambulance?

After that it was a couple of very strong and gut busting ambos, getting me up into a chair then a stretcher and off to hospital.

From where I was airlifted to a major regional hospital and some eye opening encounters and experiences! hard to believe and demonstrating anyone living alone and old needs to already have a power of attorney safely in the hands of a truly trustworthy friend or relative!

Given there are many ways to become a victim than just being old alone and relatively poor! And that is easily accomplished by being forced into early retirement by life changing injury and placed in a position where the outgoings were always more than that coming in from all sources including super! More later.
Rhrosty.

Don't take much notice of this doom and gloom, not enough accommodation, not enough super, not enough health care stuff; especially from people who have a stake in the 'industries' concerned.

The long-livers are just about finished. They come from the Depression, world war eras: tough old birds who led simple lives, without the rubbish food eaten today. Already, baby-boomers are popping their clogs right, left and centre - many not reaching 70.

And be particularly careful of anyone connected to the Property Council. Grasping, greedy buggers they are, who come up with these theories so that they can get more government help to build more and more housing.