Oldest blogger has died

From this morning's Independent comes news that the World's oldest blogger has died.Quite how you verify that fact,(not the death,the age) is unclear but the paper reports that

Olive Riley, who began blogging last year at the age of 107 and posted more than 70 entries before dying in an Australian nursing home last weekend.

adding that

Born in 1899 in the outback mining town of Broken Hill, Mrs Riley took up blogging at the suggestion of a friend, jokingly calling it her "blob". A great-great-grandmother, she acquired an international following, with thousands of people responding to her tales of bringing up three children on her own and surviving two world wars and the Depression.

According to the report her last entry was

"I still feel weak, and can't shake off that bad cough."