The Life and Times of Peter Green
updated 24 August 2026
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August 11thCensus tonight where we get a bit of a profile as to what Australia is. We ticked the Ok to use in 99 years box as well. We ended up filling in a paper copy as the online link didn't work.A really nice chat to music writer, poet Jen Jewel Brown tonight. It looks like she will be in front of the cameras for one of our upcoming Skyhooks projects. My leg is aching at work today, so I will be glad when the therapy starts tomorrow. August 12thMark is wading through magazines etc for the Archives for bits and pieces to scan and he comes across Countdown magazine and their end of year Countdown Award readers vote. We both were chuckling at the Overseas section. Best International Guitarist was.....The EGG from U2, no not The Edge but The Egg. That had us in stitches, a classic.I head into the Drs to sign off on my Medicare paperwork for my Physio work on my leg and it's all covered by Medicare. Isn't that incredible, we are so lucky here in Oz. The phone rings and apparently the guy looking after me has broken his leg skiing. Brilliant, the man who is fixing my leg has broken his. The Universe is having a bit of a joke. So I will have to wait 2 weeks. I can suffer through it. I kind of enjoy "Stupid Song" by Olivia Rodrigo. "I'm sleeping in my dress and my high heels" - which I thought was "I'm sleeping in the trash in my high heels". No wonder people stare at me while I sing, so it's not just because of my beautiful voice? Marky's YouTube Wednesday video is an old MTV Interview from 1989 with Richard chatting to Tim. Tim Finn looking great but his voice sounds a bit odd, is he putting on a voice or does he have a cold? What do you think? You can check it out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSIcZu2-G4c August 13thI'm really shocked as one of our locals (Bill) died. I only saw him a few days ago, I didn't think he looked good but dead a few days later, the locals and myself all a bit shocked by this. Many years ago before we owned Ailsa Craig, Bill and his wife lived in what is now our band office. When they were trying to save up for their first home. So working in the office felt a bit weird today.I hear a French Canadian version of "These Boots Are Made For Walking" by Eileen which I love. That cheers me up. What a sexy voice she has. August 14thI spot a flipper toothbrush holder, so I buy that for Marky seeing we are enjoying our flash back TV moments of watching Flipper. Did you know that Flipper's fake dolphin noises were actually altered bird noises from the Australian Kookaburra? Don't say you don't learn something new from the F/16 diary.I post off a parcel to Skyhook Tony Williams and also my sisters birthday card to Wollongong. Hopefully they will arrive safely. August 15thVolleyball pro Leo Dillier comes out as gay. He's always been rather cool , so this is just an added bonus. I've always enjoyed his taste in sunglasses!The first H5N1 bird flu death in Victoria is recorded at the penguin colony on Phillip Island. Two more detections happen elsewhere a few hours later. I have a bad feeling about this. The weather is beautiful, it almost feels like Summer but it's still Winter here. I roll up my sleeves and feel that warmth on my arms. Nice. August 16thSunday, domestic bliss day. Vacuum the lounge room, the corridor, even parts of the kitchen. Do some washing, tip some excess water into the water tanks for outside use. The suns out and it is wonderful. For once I have stopped thinking about running away to Magnetic Island.Our annual bitch fest - The Logie Awards is on and son of crocodile hunter is hosting. I thought Robert Irwin would be a prat but he was fine, give the kid a break- he tried to add loads of energy- sometimes like a Bilby on speed. I like that he gave dickhead Karl a serve, I still remember Stefanovic crawling down the gutters of Prahran drunk abusing women, so he can get fucked. Plus his tongue is firmly up skanky Pauline Hansons bum. So urgh! Like all Logie awards it had endless crap and when you are about to reach for the remote, suddenly Magda Szubanski surprises the audience as her character Sharon Strzelecki from Kath and Kim and we are won over, a survivor of cancer and happy to take the piss out of herself for a smile. Deborah Mailman so classy and cheers to the ABC picking up 8 awards. Andrew Dentons exceptional speech, maybe the best speech ever at any of the Logie awards. As he departs he looks at his Logie glistening and adds a footnote. Dedicates it to "That actor Donald Trump, a sociopathic arsehole that needs more bling"! Bless you Denton. ...equalled by Shane Jacobson having trouble opening the winning envelope.. and says "My god, if Pauline Hansons mouth was this hard to open, wouldn't the world be a better place"! Yes not a bad Logie awards at all. August 17thWe get a burn pile happening, mostly excess tree bark, register the fire and it is gone 30 minutes later. I climb in the hammock while the fire is roaring away, Midnight jumps in with me, she loves the hammock. Her super furry feet poking out the bottom. She makes it swing side to side all by herself, so clever.August 18thI wake up early again and playing Rise & Shine, on Mountain Radio. Some good songs this morning. First off, Tom Petty with "You don't know me". I'd love to do a cover of this song. "But let's get to the point , let's roll another joint"! After that the Rolling Stones with "Waiting on a friend" from the rather excellent Tattoo You album.I remember that it is Nigel Griggs birthday- he turns 77 so post various photos on social media. I also run the link for his "All Alone" clip that we did for him. It ends up having another 1000 views , so way past 3000 now. It makes Nigel happy. We call him and sing in our stupid birthday voices that we do, Nigel cracks up laughing. August 19thI wake up to the sound of rain. We have had several truly glorious sunny days , my skin was tingling from the sunshine. Dark outside too and I have to climb up from my vampiric coffin and join the mortals at Food Bank. Which is ok, I'm just volunteering so if my knee or leg aches I will head home.I drive over to Monbulk and the wind has picked up and bits of tree are falling down onto the road from the forest. I dodge a few in the Black Beauty. Thankfully it stops when I reach Monbulk. I get all the grocery shopping done. I help an older lady carry her groceries to her car , she tries to give me a $5 note but I refuse. Just do one good thing for a person every day and that alone is the reward. Shit I have become a bloody Boy Scout. A rather good article on Peter Garrett from Midnight Oil on the ABC News page. Yes the "other" PG! August 20thDrizzling outside, we get so few donations today. Good in one way as I have 3 cages of books, dvds and vinyl that have arrived from head office, so I work my way through them. The Book Cave is really popular in the afternoon. I tried to restock but it is packed so gave up on that idea. So many people commenting how they love the space. So that is very cool.August 21stIt's cold again outside, I am sipping Thai Pumpkin soup at the Olinda Bakery watching the early morning humans go by and off to work. I'm kind of working, I have my work book with me so scrawling down some ideas. Getting up a Facebook page for our Film Studio- Tin Star will be my main project for the afternoon.I chat to Noel from the Enz, and it looks like he might be one of the first people we film in the new area. He will Pop Tin Star's Cherry! Opps! Always good to have a few laughs with Mr C. His Enz costume book comes out in a month so I thought a video chat around that would be good for the Enz fans. At 1.00 Tin Star Studios- Australia goes up on Facebook. So if you have Facebook you can check out the page here and please FOLLOW it. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61593262425578 It's a little bit exciting. Even the mysterious Mark Goulding will be contributing. That alone is a good enough reason to follow us on Facebook. HA! August 22ndI keep giving Mark updates on Tin Star , I am slowly driving him crazy. I can't sleep , so up early, my brain ticking over around Posts and Project stuff (P+P). Ideas and ideas and ideas.I go for a hike to Bourkes Lookout and pick up micro plastics, hanging over the edge , trying to get every bit before animals consume them. I take time to enjoy the view. I have my coffee card and score a free coffee at Olinda Bakery. I chat to some new family that has moved up here. A nice couple. Hopefully we will see more of them. August 23rdToday we put up a new post around the 2nd upcoming project. This one a documentary, "Skyhooks 1976". The news filters out via the Internet and by lunch time those following goes past 200. I am loving this, so many wonderful comments too.Chat to some youngsters Dom and Christine up here for a visit- very very cool. They seem to like me, so I'm not quite an old fart yet , ignored and pushed to the back of the world. Also an American guy who is exploring the Mountain on his holiday, I give him some helpful hints. So nice visitors this morning. We head off and visit Nigel in the afternoon. I take the infamous chicken suit from his All Alone video clip. Really for a photo shoot, of yours truly being the paranoid chicken, climbing up a tree while Nigel tries to get me down with a rake. I just wanted Nige in a shot so we can use it on Tin Star around his All Alone video which will be one of our "flashback" posts. So August is nearly over, I shouldn't but already I am thinking of Christmas. So many more things I need to do this year, so somehow I want to slow it all down and kick a few more goals. Take care and thanks to all of you who have shown such amazing support around our Tin Star Studios project and are following us on Facebook. Love PG |
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