Wonderful Warrnambool

Hello Everyone,

Loris and Lucy visited Warrnambool this week and terrorised good local folk with their antics.
Fortunately, the authors of Loris and Lucy's Later Life Guide, myself and Raema, were there to explain the book and its aims.
It was lovely to meet the fine local people - about 85 attended the talk at the City Memorial Bowls Club. Members of the City Memorial Bowls Club were there in force - a delightful gathering of ladies. There were carers in the audience and also many folk around our age. Some men, too, which was terrific.

The Warrnambool Standard dropped by and Loris and Lucy took advantage of the photo opportunity. Local ABC man Jeremy Lee also interviewed myself as co-author. Thank you Jeremy. I enjoyed the interview.

Raema and I had much fun mixing with Warrnamboolians, but we apologise if these city girls were pretty full on. Many country people have that wonderful quality - shyness - but soon they were partaking in the general banter during a Shoot the Breeze segment.

Raema and I are very passionate about promoting health messages and this helps overcome the challenge of addressing a new audience as each is different. The challenge was quite terrifying this time as we found no-one in the audience had read the book!

The important thing is that we're sincere about getting these important messages out to women and if we're able to convince even a few later life women to take a closer look at preserving their health, then it's all worthwhile. So many of us think that once we're a certain age there's not much we can do or care to do - which is a shame. Many women work extremely hard caring for family and others in the community, even in their very late years. They deserve good health and the only way they'll keep it and maintain it is to practice health care strategies.

It was also lovely to meet young professional women who appreciated the book and the fact that there are lots of pointers in the book for preventative measures concerning health. It's a wise move to establish health care strategies when young - why not avoid osteoporosis and other negative health issues altogether?

Thank you to Warrnambool City Council and our host Mary McLeod for the opportunity to speak with Warrnambool women.
We had a truly delightful time. Thank you all for your participation.

Best of health,

Camille.