Here are some useful links. If you find that a link is no longer working (websites do change over time), please let us know!

Current weather and daily news below

http://au.weather.yahoo.com

http://www.news.com.au

and for Europe

http://www.guardian.co.uk/

Trading Post A good site that has everything that the well known Trading Post newspaper carries. If you cant find it here you propably never will!

ebay Auction Site This is the famous auction site.

Discount buying in the USA & Canada This site links to 82 000 towns in North America, listing discount and benefits information for each of them. Click here for your town.

Jims Mowing & Gardening Go to Jims Australia wide site, and register your interest in any part of his wide range of home services including gardening or mowing, and they will arrange for a caller. They have an simple booking system on the net that shows the areas they cover and with what services.

Grey Army Home Services The Grey Army group is committed to assisting people who require home services. They have preselected tradespeople, who are all over 45,and cover just about everything you can think of, from carpet cleaning through gardening and carpentry to appliance repairs.

Do It Yourself This is a great site. We were thrilled to find it. Although US based, it is one of the most useful resources weve seen for those homeowners who would like to do those odd jobs themselves. Many explanations are accompanied by illustrations. Highly Recommended. Greypath welcomes your advice as to recommended tradesmens organisations, who have a wide geographic coverage, and whom we may consider adding to this site.

Pizzahut Its a site still under construction. In the meantime, just ring the national number listed, and they will let you know if they have delivery in your area.

GreenGrocer.com.au Australia’s leading online grocer of market fresh fruit, vegetables, and perishable goods including breads, flowers, prepared foods, meats and seafood. Operating in Sydney and Melbourne, their premium quality produce is purchased fresh from the markets every morning and delivered direct to your door that same afternoon. All you need to do is place a minimum order of $25 on the website by midnight and choose a delivery time convenient to you. An easy to use and well recommended site

Home Delivered Meals - NSW Tender Loving Cuisine. Tasty delicious Heart Foundation Approved meals and dinners delivered right to your door in Sydney, Central Coast and Newcastle. Huge range available. Well recommended and as tasty alternative to Meals on Wheels.

Yellow Pages Shopping Site This site will enable you to search for goods and services over the net. You might have to click your way in through the site, for a while, but there are a some good sites here, and persistence will pay off.

eBay This is an auction site. You can click about and see what they have on offer, and then register as a bidder as you like. It takes a while to get used to, but worth the effort.

dstore This is a new company which sells sports goods, toys, books, health goods, videos etc. It carries instructions and is easy to use. You can effect payment by cheque, credit card, and over the phone or fax.

Amazon Books & CD's The worlds best(?) site for buying books. Works well and books usually arrive in Australia within two weeks. You have to set yourself up as a customer first, with credit card details.

CD Sales Specialises in CD's.

Wishlist Shopper Plenty to buy here from flowers through to books, wine and wedding gifts. Takes a while to get used to it, but OK in the end. Persist.

Internet Shopping This clean site has around 30 categories of shopping, and 500 individual shops to peruse.

Dymocks Books An easy to use Australian book buying and books review site.

Angus & Robertsons Bookstore Australias leading bookstore chain. Look for it here before you buy through Amazon or other overseas organisations. (As good as they are). Prices usually much cheaper than at the store.

Pharmacy on Line We don’t know much about the area of online pharmacies, but this site came recommended, so we have added it here for your consideration. It's based in Brisbane, and seems to be comprehensive. Feeback from users would be welcomed.

Hardware On Line An excellent site for advice via Handy Andy, and buying anything from auto accessories through to power tools. A needed faciilty on the net, and one that warrants your support. Free delivery nationwide for $25 plus orders too.

Innovations Catalogue You can shop here for those excellent things that appear in the innovations catalogues.

Interflora No need for much comment here. Send flowers anywhere through this site.

Collins Book Shops This specialist on line bookselling site from Collins is rated very high on usability

ebay Australia The worlds biggest such site has an Australian presence now. They claim 8000 categories of goods for sale.

Choice Magazine This is the on line version of the highly respected consumers CHOICE magazine. Its well worth a check here before you buy. You can buy just about anything over the net these days, and also attend auctions for everything from houses to old cars and vinyl records. We have yet to find any site that is immediately easy to use for the first time user, and suggest that you persist until you get into the swing of it. Everyone eventually does. In general you should know that shopping over the net will require a credit card (Visa, Mastercard etc). If you havent got a card, see your bank.To protect yourself, (if you feel that the card details might be misused), you can have the bank set a pre agreed limit, of say $1000, on the card. However the Australian Code of Conduct for Electronic Funds Transfer, limits your liabilty to a maximum of A$50, if you can establish that you didnt order or receive the goods you've been billed for. You will find many web sites simply awful and hard to use. They will sometimes take about half a dozen clicks to get you to anything useful. When you do persist, and find a good site, or service, remember to save it as a 'favourite' for next time.

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Freebies Download free games, images, samples etc

Unusual Product Uses Some US version products, but you wil recognise many and might find the alternate uses of interest.

FBI Records Read the FBI records in Albert Einstein, Huey Long, the Black Panthers, Lucille Ball and many others. It needs Adobe Acrobat to read the files, (easily downloadable), and some files can ltake a long time to download, so patience and a genuine interest is needed.

The World Of Symbols A site that shows around 2500 western civilisations symbols, from all over the world. Fascinating research possibilities here

Salon Claimed to be on of the worlds busiest sites. Great fun, a sort of on line magazine with stories, cartoons, news, gossip, etc etc. More here than you will ever get through, and changing daily.

Paul Myers Reference A big personal site set up by Paul Myers in Canberra. It has hundreds of interesting links of all kinds. It's an encylopeadia of sites that he has found of interest and will appeal to a wide range of people.

Free Internet Games Some smallish games here. Just for fun and to while away an idle half hour.

Folk Tales From Suburbia This site is all about urban legends. The things we believe, and that which we heard from 'Snowy at the Pub.' Take a look at the Darwin Awards and the Ghosts and Graves links. Might help you in future, to sort fact from fiction.

Epicurious - Recipes From World Restaurants A rare find here. 11 000 recipes covering anything you might think of, and many rated by the people who have tried then since listing. I'd bookmark this site separately.

African Wild Life Livecam Take a look here. Some of their cameras are working and can be manipulated. Its dark there until about 3PM our time in Australia

Music and Charities Dapatchy's site offers some very touchy feely music and more. Seeks interest in supporting some US charities. Worth a look.

Street Atlas You can find just about anywhere around major cites in Australia, mark your place, and e-mail it to a visitor! Great for people out of state who havent your state directory.

Solve Murder Mysteries This site enables you to review evidence on fictional murder mysteries, and post your findings to a message board. That part is free, but for a few extra dollars you can actually participate in the case. Good fun for those so inclined!

Scams on the Net A well regarded site that keeps you up to moment with Internet scams that you should be aware of. Also offers a free e-mail newsletter re scams.

Puzzles Of All Kinds A wide collection of puzzles, brain games, teasers etc here. Also a collection of the great classical posers from world experts, including Sam Loyd and Lewis Carroll

Do It Yourself We think that this is among the best sites for those that are home handymen (or women), and those who might on occasion have to be. More than that, we think it is one of the most useful sites in the entire Internet! Tell others about it.

Freebees for Everyone Voted one of the best sites around. Based in Australia and heaps of freebee software competitions etc. Have a good deep 'clickabout' into this site.

Free photos This is a very big site, full of useful photos for web site building and more.

Recipes on line A very useful site and perhaps a companion to Epicurious. Its here in potluck because we cant find any better category for it.

Chain Letters Have a look here to forever make you cynical about chain letters, and do your bit to stop their proliferation. Some doozies here!

News Groups Master List Newsgroups are a great resource, and we found this site from Google, to be the best overall 'head site', covering access to 25 000 such groups. There is one for your area of interest here, for sure….. If you have a query, post it to an appropriate newsgroup.

Living Frugally This site has a lot to offer and is well worth a visit, whoever you are. Even if you are well off you can find ideas here to help others,or raise money for clubs etc. US based but the ideas are global in application.

Fotosearch This is a useful site if you are seeking images. Just type in the key word, say Sydney, or ants in the search box and you are away

World Street Maps Its fun sometimes to look at other countries street maps

A great toys and model trains museum Well worth a look at this really nice site. It brings back pleasant memories of the past.

Barry Coakers Forum An eclectic site full of colour and interest. Barry runs computer support classes and home help in Victoria. He also offers web design services

Tony Barber's Home & Travel This is Tony Barbers international travel and home site.

Complaint Line A great site that is designed to 'effectively' handle just about any complaint you can think of. Built by Karen Chalmers Scott

US Seniors Showcase A site that is a great motivator for those to young too retire. Plenty of good ideas and lifestyle examples for us here.

SA Seniors and Lionels Page This is another site of value to seniors, built by a senior. It carries an SA seniors email grouping for support and common interest topics, and also an excellent set of computer advice,' how to do it's'.

Jan Thompsons Music Site This site is Jan Thompsons. As a senior entertainer, her excellent music CD's are available for sale through this site.

Belly Dancing With Zaida Where will it all end? Zaida offers a great deal of well presented information regarding belly dancing for seniors. What cant we do these days?

Frisky After Sixty This is Judy and Jeffs site. All very nice and a credit to them. It came out of a regular newspapewr column that they write.

June Keir Authors Site June Keir is a successful children's books author.It is a very pleasant site to visit and deals with childrens drawings, writing matters, book editing and more.

Scots Reunion page This is an historically evocative site especially for those expats who are from the so called three towns of Ardrossan, Saltcoats and Stevenston.

Brizcomm An interesting site run by Yvette Neilson and her mother Margaret

Bobby Hind's Site Bobby Hind is an 83 year old lady who has built her own web site. Have a look and be inspired yourself.

New Zealand Seniors Computer Club A new club offering help to NZ seniors.

Joyce Stevens great explanation site on time.  

Genealogy Australia Australian resource site. As said elsewhere , sort out some chapter headings and just start writing. Your own life is fast becoming history and your grandchildren will thank you.

World Surname Search World site to track the' reach' of your surname. (Provided it isnt Rumplestiltskin).

Genealogy - World World site for those interested in this growing area.

Debrett's Genealogy An excellent site as one would expect, with particular value for those of UK ancestry.

Also please see the Greypath Lyceum's course on Family History Writing.