Mary Donnelly turned 100 on September 28, and to celebrate, a lunch with family and friends was held at the Mullum Courthouse Hotel on Saturday.

This week I turn 55. It’s a privilege to be getting older.  I have a loving husband. I have a family I adore who, for the most part, adore me back. I live in a modestly beautiful house full of the things I’ve collected, or made, or been given, or ended up with. I live in a community that I value and who values me. That said, my life is not perfect. I have complex challenges that I try to use to enrich, rather than diminish, my life. I try not to compare others or myself. I try to embrace impermanence. I feel others’ pain at an intensity I’ve never felt before. I believe this is the beginning of the long labour of my eldership.

There’s isolation and there’s isolation. For most folk, isolation means just doing the right thing to help stop the spread of COVID-19.

Celebrating his 80th birthday Jimmy Nutter gets naked and aims to dance the night away.