Ready Set Retire

Ready Set Retire

Retirement – embracing the unavoidable

WELCOME to Ready, Set, Retire. As those of us born anywhere between 1946 and 1964 have started, are starting, are thinking about starting or trying hard not to think about it at all, retirement has become an unavoidable reality for we Baby Boomers...

Riverine Herald
Ready Set Retire

Holidaying at ‘home’ becomes the option

IF 2020 has been your year of cancellations and discontent – and 2021 is still up in the air – relaxing restrictions across regional Victoria have certainly changed the domestic game plan.

Andrew Mole
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From paperboy to newspaper man

IT WAS 4.30am; dark, really dark, and the rain was pouring down. And the alarm would not stop.

Andrew Mole
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Bill zapped by the solar connection

THE bill has arrived and the jury is in.

Andrew Mole
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Mr Sheds has lost his heart to the battery pack and its plug-in charger

BATTERY powered cordless tools are definitely where it is at these days.

Andrew Mole
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When time is on your side why not try some croquet?

QUEEN of Hearts aside, croquet might seem the most genteel of ways to spend a few hours of convivial companionship on a sunny day.

Andrew Mole
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Any colour will be fine — so long as it’s silver

By Steve ‘Sheds’ Bain BEFORE I go on, a few of my known associates opine the shed I call orange is actually a shade of red. I’ve pointed out to them it might not be manly to know the various hues from pastel pink through to hot chilli scorcher...

Riverine Herald
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Take some smart steps along the way to the wide open road

Being a grey nomad is not simply a case of becoming a senior citizen, retiring (in either order), hitching up the van and heading north.

Andrew Mole
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We are well on our way to stocking those sheds

STEVE ‘SHEDS’ BAIN takes a deeper look into the 3/8” range of basic socket types that are available in common kits

Michael Von Güttner
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Grandmas had me eating out of both their (apron) pockets

WARMING to my subject of last week, as a child I genuinely believed the homes of my two grandmothers were magical places (don’t laugh, but I still do).

Andrew Mole
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Step right in, sit right down

Ready, Set, Retire takes a look at choosing the retirement car.

Riverine Herald
Ready Set Retire

Be really common? Try a 12 pointer

STEVE ‘SHEDS’ BAIN concludes his inside look at sockets. Next week the accumulation for your shed goes on TWELVE point sockets (AKA double-hex sockets) are probably the most common type in our socket kits. They work with a very wide variety of...

Michael Von Güttner
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I was as thick as two planks

By Andrew Mole I WALKED into John Raccanello’s backyard with plans to produce a slab redgum dining table – complete with chairs – and was in no rush to get things finished. So fully expected to have that project in the ute and headed home in...

Andrew Mole
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You have to trust some good advice

By Andrew Zbik, Creation Wealth IN 2019, the University of Melbourne completed some research on how Australians feel about their finances and financial services providers. The findings were both sad and damning. What was sad? â– 1 in 3...

Michael Von Güttner
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Boom, boom baby, it is all the kid’s fault—absolutely

SUNDAY is Father’s Day. Woohoo. Once upon a time it was breakfast in bed, then it turned into interesting primary school artwork masquerading as cards, evolved into pre-teens and their take on tacky trinkets they were sure I would love. It...

Andrew Mole
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Radio? Sounds like an idea

Retirement unleashes opportunity; the chance to try those things you had put off for all sorts of reasons. This week if you fancied yourself as a shock jock or spinning some golden oldies, why not think about radio? Ready, Set, Retire checks out the...

Andrew Mole
Ready Set Retire

My dear old grandma was no material girl

LET me tell you a funny story about how I nearly killed my saintly old grandma. Accidentally, of course. It came about because I was charged with taking the matriarch into the city as she wanted a new dress for her 80th birthday party. As I recall...

Andrew Mole
Ready Set Retire

Don’t just socket and see, take the good oil from Steve

STEVE ‘SHEDS’ BAIN takes the natural progression from spanners to sockets as he continues putting his ideal armoury together to take on any task, big or small, in his backyard workshop. LIKE most of us, I’ve been using sockets all of my adult...

Riverine Herald

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Regional Victoria to move to step three

REGIONAL Victoria will move to Step Three of the Victorian Government’s COVID-19 roadmap from 11.59pm on Wednesday – but freedom is still not on the agenda until the end of November.

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Man killed in Yambuna car crash

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Border open to residents from midnight

THOSE in possession of a valid border permit will be permitted to cross into NSW for every day life purposes from midnight.

Andrew Johnston
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COVID-19 restrictions loosen from next Sunday for regional Victoria

Gatherings of up to five people will be allowed in outdoor public places while single parents and people living alone will be able to nominate a friend or family member to visit them, as part of eased restrictions.

Charmayne Allison