Olive was indeed irresistable and fascinating as a story teller. I follow your thought. I wish he’d kept a diary all her life for then we would ahve had even more material.

It would have been a feast I know, 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