It is Easter tomorrow and like everyone I’m already thinking “where has the year gone?” My husband Keith and I are off in our caravan for a few days to a little coastal spot down south. It got me thinking about Easter and how we have celebrated it over the years. Since I was young…
By 50 Shades, March 28, 2013
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
I recently wrote a blog about Gen Y lingo and thought it would be interesting to compare it with the past two generations to see how things have changed. Believe it or not we Baby Boomers used some pretty cool lingo. We actually invented words such as: dig, groovy, funky, far out, stoned and…
By 50 Shades, March 25, 2013
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
Last night I had this dream. I was sitting at a candlelit table for two with a gorgeous man and he was massaging my foot under the table. But I was paying no attention to him – I was salivating over a plate of moreton bay bugs with a side of aioli and kipfler…
By 50 Shades, March 18, 2013
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
WISH you had seen more of the world, not taken up smoking or had that dead end relationship? You’re far from alone. A recent poll revealed that not travelling enough has come top of a ‘list of regrets’ felt by the over 50s, beating other big regrets over relationships, careers and healthy choices….
By 50 Shades, March 15, 2013
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
I must have been born with a dishcloth in one hand and a shopping trolley in the other! As all I seem to do in my place of abode is wipe the kitchen benches down, clean up spills/crumbs/sauces and duck down to the local Supermarket to get some more milk/fruit/bread! I am almost certain…
By 50 Shades, March 8, 2013
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
Musically it all happened for me in 1974. I was 17 and about to finish school and go out into the workforce as an office clerk. I was listening to Stevie Wright sing Evie on the radio and I was wanting to be that girl: “Evie let your hair hang down” and : “You’ve got…
By 50 Shades, February 8, 2013
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
I occasionally go on girl’s nights out with my girlfriends which usually consists of a nice dinner out at a restaurant or a quiet drink somewhere (with lots of incessant chatter!) Increasingly we see women, particularly in bars, dressed up to the nines in their push-up bras and sexy little mini-skirts flirtatiously parading around…
By 50 Shades, January 21, 2013
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
Having just returned from a week away in our caravan at a pretty little spot near Byron Bay called Broken Head, I got to thinking how I love the laidback lifestyle of this coastal area in Northern NSW. It is simply like stepping back in time to the 1970’s when the flower people and…
By 50 Shades, December 27, 2012
Kathy was a 50 something year old when she started up this blog 6 years ago, but has since turned over another decade and is now in her early 60s. She is married with two adult children and lives on the Tweed Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Kathy enjoys living life to the fullest and loves to keep fit and active by maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly. Some of her interests include reading, photography, travelling, cooking and blogging! Kathy works part-time as a freelance writer but her real passion is travelling and photographing brilliant destinations both within Australia and overseas and writing about it.
