The Life and Times of Peter Green
updated 25 October 2026
 "Filming with the amazing Jen Jewel Brown. Tin Star Studios, Kalorama 2026" |
October 12thThe weather changes so quickly here. You get why Neil Finn penned "Four Seasons In One Day". Yesterday the most beautiful, almost Summer like day. Last night it bucketed down, lots of thunder. Today a temperature drop, fog and that endless fine misty rain.I sit with the old boys gang at Olinda. Al, Ian, Mark and I am the young pup. Nice guys all of them. The bakery is quiet, a few stragglers buying coffee, and bread. Pepsi the dog is with me, her tail wagging out of control. She was a rescue doggy so nice to see she has a great home and so happy. Dogs always tell you when they are happy and sad. I work in the office with Mark. We were going to do some filming today but a bit worried about rain pounding on the roof and our microphones picking it up. So we are thinking we may well hold off. We have plenty of things to do for pre production but we don't want this "Skyhooks 1976" documentary to get away from us as we have double the amount of people to film this time. October 13thI drop some cans in to recycle machine for Community Radio 3RRR. The really nice business owner comes up while I am walking away and goes "Hey Peter, these are for you a present" and gives me $30 worth of cans. He tells me to use them for myself, so I take my can receipt to Woolworths next door and buy groceries (yes and a big chocolate). So nice of him, great to start your day with someone being kind to you.I mail off my bowel cancer test - wonderful that the Federal Government gives this to Australians and it is free. Judge a country by how it looks after its citizens health. In America bowel cancer screening tests are not covered for everyone, we are so fortunate here. The boss is away today and a few staff members off sick so I focus on work. Nearly all the Halloween stuff goes out. I find a giant tall mechanical witch which is bigger than I am, so put that out, it screams and moves about, those glowing red eyes freak people out. Lots of the cool costumes sell today, the Magenta Rocky Horror Show outfit sells, an official one from Rocky Franchise. Plus several others off my mannequins. A family comes in all dressed up and they love the Book Cave and buy up big. I restock all the music cds and one guy fills up a huge hand basket of music. It's busy busy busy. October 14thThe bakery is empty today, just myself and the girls in the morning, so we have a bit of a laugh. I'm wearing a new shirt with skeletons and forests on it.Food Bank, and people are way too early but they go into the supermarket room while we all rush to fill boxes from the last van arriving. I'm in the supermarket area to do a restock and our local member Daniela de Martino arrives. She gives me the biggest hug. Grabs boxes and helps me restock the shelves, bless her as my knee still bit dodgy so hard to do those bottom shelves. People are nice this morning, just happy to get a helping hand. Which is what we do. I'm only a very small cog in the wheel. Marky's YouTube Wednesday goes up. The views have been awesome lately, no need to give anything a secondary push. Early afternoon we head off mountain to Spotlight to buy some backing material for Tin Star Studios. Plus I want to check out the Dracula outfits for Halloween. We have never been Dracula's before..a classic. So many outfits on line but I am budgeting so hoping Spotlight has something to offer. We find some great backdrop material, one is really expensive but the VIP card takes a 20% sting out of it. As we pull into Spotlight a car arrives next to us and it's my friend Deb from charity with her grandson. What are the odds? So we all hang around inside checking out cool items. I treat Mark to some fake Mexican food, just one "restaurant" that is on TV. It wasn't great so that one is off the list. Spend the night watching the latest Star Trek documentaries. Marky's YouTube Wednesday was a live Tim Finn video and it hits 1500+ views by midnight. If any Finn fans are reading this, we do have a Tim interview up (from MTV) that needs a tiny bit of help, to hit our target. It is just 147 views short, so if you can give it a view that would be amazing. We thank you. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSIcZu2-G4c October 15thTrump taking Russia's side over the Ukraine. What a disgusting thing he is.I start work at the charity at 8.00 today so by 2.30 I have ran out of steam. The Halloween items are selling fast still, the giant witch has gone, my painted BOO bag gone, and loads of costumes. My coworkers are great keeping their eyes peeled for any spooky donations that might come in. I have a tiny birthday present for my friend Belle in France so mail it off in a card, I hope it arrives safely and on time. October 16thWell the first cab is off the rank for filming "Skyhooks 1976" at Tin Star. Yes it is me. Mark puts on his Producer cap and he is a taskmaster. We did several takes of each segment. I worry as they are setting up at the oval for the marathon run in the hills tomorrow and doing some microphone tests. Thankfully they stop and 95% of my filming gets done....I never enjoy being in front of the camera. Radio I love but being filmed, horrid, but have confidence in the Producer. I'm ready for my close up Mr Goulding!In the afternoon I shape and spray paint Mark's vampire wig for Halloween. It looks very cool, like a Mod Vampire. October 17thA photo of yours truly with the clapper board at Tin Star Studios goes a tad viral. Various mates have shared it on FB pages like "Aussie Rock Music". I'm a bit stoked, the post on that page gets a lot of "likes". People are talking about the documentary and we haven't even finished the interviews yet.The Roller Coaster run around the Hills is on at Kalorama Park today and the guy on the microphone will not shut up, the entire day. Hopefully it's worth us suffering if something local benefits from this, like extra money for the schools up here. The weather is perfect though, the runners should enjoy all of this sunshine. Mark goes out and puts up his Daniela De Martino poster on the fence. He thinks she is fantastic and wants to show support. I love his passion. October 18thI work on the Greg Skyhook questions for the Hooks documentary and send them off to him, so he has them before filming.2400 people arrested in France as protests turn violent. Let the looting begin I am sure. I am glad we live in Australia. Governments can do very little to change the cost of living when there is a war in the Middle East. Inflation will continue to rise. October 19thSo incredibly sad around Independent MP Helen Haines, she ends up losing both legs and in a critical state. A smart strong woman, sending love to her family. Donations of support can be made to the Save the Children fund which she supported passionately.We are keeping an eye on the weather as we film again on Friday. A double session. It says rain so we may have to blow it out but I am hoping that will change. The rain sounds like machine guns on our tin roof when we are filming. October 20thHalf the Halloween items have sold at my Book Cave at the charity. Amazing, I just wish we had more Halloween stuff. The charity will benefit so I am happy.We have our funky kofta kebabs for dinner again. They taste great and the veggies I prepare are really nice. A heads up to support something close to home. Our lovely mate Debbie Levitt has a GoFundMe up for the Frenz Forum and all the other things connected (even this diary folks). To have web pages etc does cost money and she continually covers costs for something the fans enjoy. So if you love the Finn related things that she has been doing for 30 years now and want to make a donation, please just do so via the link below. Every dollar helps keep these wonderful fan things going. I've made a note to donate next week. Hope you will do the same. Donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-the-frenz-forum-alive-split-enz-crowded-house-etc October 21stSome new faces at Food Bank, a few new volunteers too which is nice. We seem to be ultra efficient again today. Getting all the food boxes ready before the public arrive. It's an easy few hours and good to do. People appreciate it.I sit with Al and Angus at the bakery and it's fun. We chat about pretty much everything. The bakery girls chuckle at the comments they overhear. Marky's YouTube Wednesday and I guess this one is a bit special. 40 years since Crowded House released "Don't Dream It's Over". The hit that changed everyone's lives. Mark has found an unreleased live video of "Don't Dream" from ID's at Prahran. We both had forgotten about this. The sound is rather exceptional. We hit our target number of views on this within 11 hours. It gets a lot of shares. You can enjoy it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FasFKKObsnQ October 22ndI wake up to a voice in my head (yes I know how that sounds) saying "Fate Is Kind To Those Who Believe". It sticks, I can't find it mentioned anywhere so I grab it as my own. I keep thinking about it in the car.I wing into Bourkes Look Out and fill up an entire bag with tiny plastics like bottle caps. It pisses me off that people are not more careful, especially with these tiny plastics that our native animals eat. I'm in the car park, it's empty but I have this sensation that I am about to find money. How weird. I walk to the car and a $10 note is in front of me. It just makes me smile. You think it would have blown away by now, but no, it's just waiting for me to pick it up. I'm heading to the bakery and wonder if I should use my $10 note to buy a Lotto ticket. It's Thursday, so for $10 you get a tiny number of games like five. So it's probably a complete waste. I walk into the bakery and tell my friend Polly behind the counter. "You should buy a Lotto ticket with it". Ok that's it, I do. October 23rdI have a few meetings today but sit and have my one a day coffee. I decide to check my pissy tiny Lotto ticket. I can't believe it, I win $209.90. I am so happy, all from a free $10 note. The old gods are having a laugh, I go back to my car and a 10c piece is next to the door. So $210.00. Which is very cool as I have one bill to pay, that's all I owe in the world and it is for $207.00. So my "free" money covers it. I feel like someone is endlessly looking after me.I drop into charity and give them an hour's work. Maybe to say thanks to the great unknown for the cash, do some extra good for people. Home by 10.30 and help Mark do set up for today's video shoot. Poet, Author, Music scribe Jen Jewel Brown arrives in an hour with her son Sunny. So great to see her. She's up for a double lot of filming. The first segment for the "Skyhooks 1976" documentary, the second on a secret project we can't announce yet. Sunny does her make up and we make her feel at home. Both are good sessions and we have some fun. I take some photos at the end. Just for social media. Two sessions are a lot, Mark is great around the filming. We change backdrops while Jen changes outfits. We are scarily efficient. Well I think so. They tell me they are doing the "Bird Count" so I take them up to Olinda Arboretum to check out the wild birds for their count and to wave them goodbye. Jen sends us a really lovely thank you email when she gets home. Today was fun. The weather was perfect too. October 24thWell the great weather has departed again, a week of rain and it starts at 5.45 am.It would have been Ignatius Jones from Jimmy and the Boys' 69th birthday today. I find one of my Live Photos and put up the Sounds Interview link and post it on some music Facebook pages. The Iggy and Joylene clip needs a helping hand - we knew it would take a while to hit its target. The Iggy post on socials helps, 100 more views. We need 285 views to hit our target. So if you are reading this and feeling kind and generous to your mate Peter G, please give it a view or share. Thank you. You can enjoy it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVwBTS1t324 Tin Star Studios Australia on Facebook gets another 10 new followers. We are up to 344 now. It's nothing compared to some pages but even 344 people being excited enough to follow what we do is fantastic. Thank you. October 25thIt rained all of last night and some spectacular lightning. This morning a few trees down on the Tourist road.I check my phone while I sit at the bakery and smile that I receive an invite to the Inaugural meeting of the Ballarat Time Lords. I'll go if they pick me up in their TARDIS! So that is it for the diary. Please if you can donate to Deb's Frenz GoFundMe as previously mentioned. We love her work. https://www.gofundme.com/f/keep-the-frenz-forum-alive-split-enz-crowded-house-etc Stay safe and Happy. xxPG And remember Fate Is Kind To Those Who Believe! |
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