Comments on: Olive Riley http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/07/14/olive-riley/ I am not a has-been. I am a will be. Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we are here we might as well dance Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:02:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/07/14/olive-riley/#comment-10845 Grannymar Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:04:35 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1255#comment-10845 A very warm welcome to mike rubbo ! Thank you for your comment and a little more background to that wonderful Lady that was Olive Riley. All those hours are sure to have given you plenty of special memories and perhaps in time will become the basis of a book. You are welcome to join in the fun here and comment whenever you feel like it. I hope when my time comes to cock my toes, that I will be remembered as warmly as you do Olive. A very warm welcome to mike rubbo !

Thank you for your comment and a little more background to that wonderful Lady that was Olive Riley.

All those hours are sure to have given you plenty of special memories and perhaps in time will become the basis of a book.

You are welcome to join in the fun here and comment whenever you feel like it.

I hope when my time comes to cock my toes, that I will be remembered as warmly as you do Olive.

]]> By: mike rubbo http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/07/14/olive-riley/#comment-10841 mike rubbo Sun, 27 Jul 2008 10:53:40 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1255#comment-10841 Hi Grannymar, thanks for paying tribute to our dear Ollie. She was irresistable, I can attest to that, having spent may hundreds of hours with her, recording her, filming her, and just hanging out. There is a big hole in my life now. You know, I thought she’d make 110. When we were shooting her movie, (All about Olive) in Broken Hill in 2004, I saw one day, some newly planed olive trees. I asked the guy watering them when they’d bear fruit and he guessed in 2010. “Ollie,” I cried, we gotta come back for that, those first olive’s should be tasted by you!” Alas it was not to be. Sadly too the interest she’d begun to take in the huge wind farm to be built near her beloved Broken Hill, wont come to anything either. I thought it was the ultimately amazing thing that here, she was, 108, and she’s worried about global warming and whether wind can be part of the solution. “You’ve got have her on the payroll,” I told the folks at Epuron, the company building the wind farm, and I think they were almost convinced I was right. Mike her helper Hi Grannymar, thanks for paying tribute to our dear Ollie.

She was irresistable, I can attest to that, having spent may hundreds of hours with her, recording her, filming her, and just hanging out.

There is a big hole in my life now.

You know, I thought she’d make 110.

When we were shooting her movie, (All about Olive) in Broken Hill in 2004, I saw one day, some newly planed olive trees.

I asked the guy watering them when they’d bear fruit and he guessed in 2010.

“Ollie,” I cried, we gotta come back for that, those first olive’s should be tasted by you!”

Alas it was not to be. Sadly too the interest she’d begun to take in the huge wind farm to be built near her beloved Broken Hill, wont come to anything either.

I thought it was the ultimately amazing thing that here, she was, 108, and she’s worried about global warming and whether wind can be part of the solution.

“You’ve got have her on the payroll,” I told the folks at Epuron, the company building the wind farm, and I think they were almost convinced I was right.

Mike her helper

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/07/14/olive-riley/#comment-9970 Grannymar Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:15:10 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1255#comment-9970 DD I am taking it one post at a time for now! DD

I am taking it one post at a time for now!

]]> By: Dardardrinks http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/07/14/olive-riley/#comment-9967 Dardardrinks Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:07:03 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1255#comment-9967 17,155 more posts.... I expect more than that. I suppose its not a bad starting goal though. :P 17,155 more posts…. I expect more than that. I suppose its not a bad starting goal though. :P

]]> By: Paddyanglican http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/07/14/olive-riley/#comment-9886 Paddyanglican Tue, 15 Jul 2008 20:29:29 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1255#comment-9886 As Billy Joel sang: "Rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the Saints" - Unless of course it was "All Saints" and then I would be happy to cry on their.........bbb shoulders! ;-) As Billy Joel sang: “Rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the Saints” - Unless of course it was “All Saints” and then I would be happy to cry on their………bbb shoulders! ;-)

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/07/14/olive-riley/#comment-9883 Grannymar Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:32:11 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1255#comment-9883 Paddy A In the next incarnation there might be some RedHot blogging :lol: Paddy A

In the next incarnation there might be some RedHot blogging :lol:

]]> By: Paddyanglican http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/07/14/olive-riley/#comment-9881 Paddyanglican Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:26:27 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1255#comment-9881 Go on Grannymar - Blog till you drop :-) And if and when you do there is always the next incarnation - Grannymar from Beyond? Go on Grannymar - Blog till you drop :-) And if and when you do there is always the next incarnation - Grannymar from Beyond?

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/07/14/olive-riley/#comment-9879 Grannymar Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:10:17 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1255#comment-9879 Magpie Some of the changes are for the good. I would find life boring without the internet and Blogging of course! Magpie

Some of the changes are for the good. I would find life boring without the internet and Blogging of course!

]]> By: Magpie11 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/07/14/olive-riley/#comment-9877 Magpie11 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:45:27 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1255#comment-9877 I heard the news on the Radio and wondered if you had come across her..I hadn't. Apparently the new oldest Blogger is 97 or so. As for blogging to 108...I doubt I'll be able to even if I do get started...my memory is prone to senior moments (or brain f**t* as an American colleague puts it) already. To think that there were no such things as artificial satellites when I was a kid..let alone communications satellites. No MRSA either come to think.... I heard the news on the Radio and wondered if you had come across her..I hadn’t.

Apparently the new oldest Blogger is 97 or so.

As for blogging to 108…I doubt I’ll be able to even if I do get started…my memory is prone to senior moments (or brain f**t* as an American colleague puts it) already.

To think that there were no such things as artificial satellites when I was a kid..let alone communications satellites.

No MRSA either come to think….

]]> By: Grannymar http://www.grannymar.com/blog/2008/07/14/olive-riley/#comment-9864 Grannymar Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:31:21 +0000 http://www.grannymar.com/blog/?p=1255#comment-9864 Darragh 'Elly blogging for me' no way, when I reach 108 there will be a string of Toyboys doing the blogging for me! Well I might as well dream here as in bed! :roll: Darragh

‘Elly blogging for me’ no way, when I reach 108 there will be a string of Toyboys doing the blogging for me!

Well I might as well dream here as in bed! :roll:

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