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Tweeting over 50's
More and more people over the age of 50 are now using social networking websites, such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, according to new figures.
Data from Pew Research found that many seniors are now using the networking portals to reconnect with people from their past.
The Maid
The Maid, Sebastian Silva, 94 mins (15)
The unnerving presence in the household of the remarkable Catalina Saavedra carries an absurdist, black, domestic comedy
Reviewed by Jonathan Romney
Sunday, 29 August 2010
Sebastian Silva's The Maid is an absurdist black comedy – or perhaps a perfectly realistic drama – about what it's like to be (or to employ) a domestic servant in contemporary Latin America.
Buy yourself a friend?
I'm standing in the pouring rain outside the Arndale Centre when I meet my friend Ariane. She greets me with a kiss on both cheeks in her typical Brazilian way, we comment on the torrential rain and then race to find cover.
To anyone passing by, we're just two mates having a catch-up.
But Ariane isn't any ordinary friend. We met through the internet a week earlier, and now I'm paying for the pleasure of her companionship.
Reading your way to health
Betty's divorce came through on the day of her golden wedding anniversary. She had lived overseas for 50 years, married to a domineering Frenchman who earlier in their marriage had fathered a child with another woman. When finally she called time on the troubled relationship, she decided to return to her native Liverpool, yet her self-confidence was completely shot. Betty is 79.
The Pindar Diamond
The Pindar Diamond
By Katie Hickman
A tale of lust, greed, and danger set in seventeenth-century Venice, The Pindar Diamond is a gripping and superbly told historical novel.
In a small town on the Italian coast, a mysterious woman washes ashore. She is crippled, mute, and clutches a bundle to her chest—a baby the townspeople insist is a real-life mermaid. It can only bring bad luck; they pay a troupe of acrobats to carry mother and child away.
Don't stop till you drop?
Source: Telegraph
More than half of today’s older generation expects never to give up working entirely, a new report claims.
A total of 55 per cent of people in their 50s said they did not anticipate they would stop working, with the majority blaming the need to earn extra cash during their retirement.
Gold in a Cornish field
Golden bulls horn pestle 'used by rich Roman to mix ancient Viagra' unearthed in Cornish field
By Daily Mail Reporter
Adventure film fest
A movie festival designed to get people off their seats is doing just that, as some of the world's best adventure movies are screened in the southern ski hot-spot of Wanaka.
The annual Wanaka Mountain Film Festival features big action made on a small budget.
Canadian adventure film-maker Will Gadd says the movies give the stay-at-homes a taste of outdoor thrills.
Knight's of the amphitheatre
King Arthur's Round Table 'found' - except it's not a table, but a Roman amphitheatre in Chester
King Arthur, the gallant warrior who gathered his knights around the Round Table at Camelot and rallied Christian Britons against the invading pagan Saxons, has always been an enigma.
But now historians believe they have uncovered the precise location of Arthur’s stronghold, finally solving the riddle of whether the Round Table really existed.
'Silver sozzlers' raise their glasses
THIRSTY senior citizens or silver sozzlers, as they are sometimes known, have been known to blow their pensions on drink
But yesterday saw the birth of a quite different phenomenon, a pension fund being saved - rather than squandered on - innumerable bottles of whisky.
The drinks company Diageo yesterday announced that it is handing millions of barrels of maturing whisky to its retired workers as part of a scheme to close its pension fund deficit.