SEVENTY SOMETHING

This website is called 'Seventy Something' so it's time to review what it's like to be seventy something. Your 70s is a magical time. Not in the sparkly, unicorn sense—but in the “How did I go to bed perfectly fine and wake up with THIS?” sense. Because somewhere around this decade, your body stops sending memos. It no longer gives warnings. It simply introduces new ailments like surprise houseguests who arrive unannounced, unpack immediately, and show no intention of leavin

Back in my day, pregnancy was a discreet affair. A woman would announce she was “expecting,” then promptly disappear behind a series of carefully engineered maternity garments designed to suggest something was happening under there, but nothing so vulgar as a visible baby bump. The goal was modesty. Mystery. Plausible deniability. Was she pregnant? Had she just discovered pudding? No one could say for sure. Maternity fashion leaned heavily toward the shapeless floral tent ,

If there’s one thing Australians can say with confidence, it’s this:  we’re not new to pandemics anymore . Once upon a time, the word “lockdown” belonged to prisons and crime dramas. Now it’s a dinner-table flashback, right up there with sourdough starters and QR codes that never scanned. So what would a  new pandemic  actually look like in Australia in 2026 or beyond? Would it be toilet-paper-panic: The Sequel? Or have we learned enough to do things differently? Let’s take a

There are few discoveries more unsettling than this: After twenty years of being told “I just don’t really have much of a libido” , you discover your partner watching porn at 2am. No affair. No secret lover. Just a softly glowing laptop and the sudden awareness that while your bedroom has been declared a long-term no-go zone, the home internet has been running like a well-oiled machine. Apparently, the libido wasn’t dead. It was just working nights. The Myth of the Broken Lib

Every now and then, the universe hands journalists a gift so perfectly wrapped that they barely have to write the headline. Death at Coffin Bay. Shark mauls boy at Shark Beach. You can almost hear the sub-editors sighing with relief, fingers hovering smugly over the keyboard. No metaphors required. No wordplay needed. The place name has done all the heavy lifting. Which raises an important question: why are we still naming places like we’re daring fate to step in? Because l

Welcome to the subscription era! Have you ever bothered to look at your bank account at the end of the month? What are all those smallish amounts that keep appearing on your statement month after month? Oh, right! I remember signing up for that a year ago. You know that feeling when you check your bank account, and despite not buying anything extravagant, your balance seems… thinner? Welcome to the world of  the silent subscription thieves —those sneaky monthly charges that s

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