The oldest blogger in the world, Olive Riley has died. She was born in 1899 and was 108 years old. She lived in a retirement home on the New South Wales Central Coast
Before she died, she'd made 70 posts since February last year about her life and musings on what she jokingly labelled, her "blob". She wrote for "you 21st century people " about raising three children on her own, living through two world wars and the Depression, her work as a station cook in rural Queensland and as an egg sorter and barmaid in Sydney.
In her final post, dated June 26, she couldn't "shake off that bad cough".
She'd also "read a whole swag of email messages and comments from my internet friends today, and I was so pleased to hear from you. Thank you, one and all."
"It was mind blowing to her," said her great grandson Darren Stone, of Brisbane.
"She had people communicating with her from as far away as Russia and America on a continual basis, not just once in a while.""She enjoyed the notoriety - it kept her mind fresh," Mr Stone said.
"What kept her going was the memories she had, and being able to recall those memories so strongly."
The blog moved and is currently down but the cache of early posts is here. It was then moved to worldsoldestblogger.blogspot.com.
There's also lots of video clips, here's two about bushwalking:
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