About Us & this Web Site

In 2004 we retired

Life was now about us and what we wanted. Our kids were off our hands and we felt free. Free to embark on a new adventure. Morna-Dawn loves to surf the web doing research on her various projects and interests. Her PC is a source of pleasure as well as work.

She teaches computer literacy and has written many tutorials on how to use a computer....but more about that interesting development later. I was happy to use my computer only to update my investments and monitor my finances in retirement. Computers to me were for using not for playing with.

We Built This Web Site

Both of us had in the past experimented in a small way with creating web sites and wondered at the possibility of an online business or at least an interactive web site that had some potential for generating a small income to pay for itself.

This would give us the incentive to persist with it. It seemed daunting and something that would probably always remain a pipe dream. But then we discovered one of the most amazing web building options – SBI (Site Build It!).

Some people use SBI to champion a cause (that’s us) or share a dream; some to build a home based business; some to supplement their retirement income; some to boost turnover of an existing business while some have used SBI to escape from a dead-end job to become Work-At-Home Moms (or Dads).

The sponsors of this web site are dedicated to enabling you to acquire something of value complimentary to your reason for being here.

We Vent Our Spleens

With so much time on our hands we were noticing the atrocious manners of our fellow citizens; kids in particular. Noisy neighbours too were a problem. We just had to make a song and dance about our feelings and try to do something about it.

On a web site we could vent our spleens to our hearts’ content without upsetting anyone. We might even make some money while we are about it. Turn it into a book later. Perhaps sell the book. An e-book! And so we signed up to Build a Website (click here) to get our message on Manners and Etiquette across to anyone interested. We decided later to add other community related issues to our web site such as computer lessons for young and old and then an assortment of our points of view on just about any subject we felt strongly about (smile). So, read on .......

We Started Seniors Computer Classes

Morna has a passion to assist ‘seniors’ make their lives more fulfilling and less lonely. She started Seniors Computer Classes at a nearby community minded school that made available to us a multimedia classroom that boasted 25 up-to-date computers complete with the latest software programs and also with Internet access.

These computers stood idle on Wednesday afternoons. Morna decided to write step-by-step tutorials encompassing all aspects of computing for her classes. The tutorials range from the total beginner through to those who just need to brush up on existing knowledge.

The lessons soon became so popular that two classes had to be run to accommodate all the seniors wanting to attend. For some of the overflow the local public library made available their 8 computers for Seniors' lessons on Friday mornings.

Morna has trained several volunteers to assist with teaching her tutorials. These volunteers are now teaching at several High Schools and Community Centres throughout Perth, Western Australia. The number of volunteers is growing, but the need for volunteers for this type of service to the community is greater still.

Teenagers Tutor the Seniors

Our State Government (Western Australia) requires year 10 students to perform 20 hours of community work as part of the school curriculum. Morna has recruited some of these year 10 students to teach her lessons under the supervision of their school teacher or volunteer tutor.

This has been a phenomenal success. The students revel in their role of ‘teacher’ to the ‘oldies’ and the Generation Gap is bridged as they develop a mutual understanding and respect for each other! Everybody involved learns something valuable. This is certainly a win-win situation!

Computers Can Be Therapeutic

The lessons have a friendly tone with lots of graphics and good humour. They surpass all the other local courses that are available and consequently the local councils have become interested in them from seeing their potential as a community service for the aged.

Computer use is therapeutic for arthritic hands and an active brain is known to help prevent old age dementia.

These lessons enable house-bound retirees and disabled people to communicate by e-mail, to share photos with family and friends and provide a forum to forge new friendships with other students attending the classes.

No Time to Teach Your Parents?

We discovered, from our classes, that many well-meaning young people are updating their PCs and giving their ‘obsolete’ computers to their retired parents.

Unfortunately, these well-meaning people do not have the time, skill or patience to teach their parents how to use the computer they have so generously given.

Easily Solved - for FREE

We have solved this problem for them. The lessons are being adapted to enable them to become easily available via the internet in a PDF format.

All those caring sons and daughters have to do is click on our Computer Lessons page and select the FREE easy step-by-step tutorials they need to start their parents off with.

For other very helpful tutorials (and for a very small sum of money) they can also download and print out slightly more advanced lessons to hand over to their parents with the computer.

This will help their parents get a running start into the cyber-world of communication, entertainment, music, personalised greeting cards, calendars, family photo slide-shows, power-point presentations, household budgets and much more.

These lessons take the mystery out of computers for the old folk and are just as informative and educational for the not-so-old who need to brush up on their computer skills to rejoin the workforce. You will find out more about these tutorials on our Computer Lessons page.

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