The Life and Times of Peter Green
updated 23 June 2026
 Dinosaur Dreaming. The Caves, Inverloch |
June 8thI walk to Burkes Lookout today , picking up some micro plastics. I fill about half a bag, which is good, half a bag of plastic crap that won't end up in our Aussie wildlife's stomachs. I help the hang glider guys set up for their launch. Up and off they go into the blue yonder. You can see the Bay today and I watch them eventually land at the bottom of Mt D at one of the farms. Very cool as it has been ages since someone has launched off the mountain. At least they didn't crash.The nasty old crab woman, starts abusing me in front of the bakery. I'm talking to someone and she just goes for me, the friend was equally shocked. Once I got over it I basically told the old bag to go Fuck herself. She's a nasty piece of work and I'm not the only one, an old gossiping trouble maker. Karma will get her. Not a nice way to start the day. The bakery staff are furious at her , as she never buys anything and hassles people. What a sad individual. We finish watching the second season of Dead Loch. It wasn't as good as the first but still some fun moments. June 9thI sleep in today, 6.45. Woo! Woo! So I rush, no shave, and scoff down a pikelet covered in our homemade blackberry jam.While I'm waiting for the boss to arrive at the charity I get a message that Shirl from Skyhooks Mum Joyce has passed away. Just short of her 99th birthday. She was this lovely lady, her hair always so immaculate and she remembered us every year with a Christmas card and birthday calls. Her husband Ron passed away a few years ago and their beloved son Shirley (Graeme) of Skyhooks fame, gone 25 years this August. June 10thMidnight climbs under the bed covers for an early morning cuddle and to avoid the morning cold. It's 2 degrees outside. I force myself out of bed and get ready for Food Bank. The car is covered in ice and the roads up here on Mt D are empty of traffic. Just little old me.After my coffee I arrive at Food Bank early, a few staff are away so I am in charge of the supermarket style shelf food displays this morning. I think I do a good job, a wide variety of stock. It's a nice feeling inside, and the heaters are on so it's warm and welcoming. Marky's YouTube Wednesday goes up. An interesting one today. Way back in 1989, Neil Finn went to Mozambique as part of the "40 Hour famine" sponsorship. So footage from that, some great music as well as Neil chatting with Clive Robertson from Newsworld. Neil also performed Van Morrisons "Irish Heartbeat" - one of my favourite versions of the song. I do want to scream out to Neil it's not a Koala BEAR! Those bloody kiwis. LOL You can enjoy it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHZMD8w_1ik&t=69s June 11thI read some good reviews around Spielbergs "Disclosure Day" , I'll have to check that one out. ...and a few days later I read some bad reviews, so we will decide. It is #1 in this country and already grossed $10,000,000 dollars already.A few people with the flu at charity today, I buy some extra OJ to give my Vitamin C a push. I take Mark to dinner at Kelly's Tavern tonight. Carolyn has the big fire burning and we get our favourite table. The food was really enjoyable. Some locals come up and say hello. 2 guys we know come up and mention "Crab Lady". Word certainly gets out on the mountain. We've reached the final season of The Boys , sad that it's the end of this cool show. Well we do have "Vought Rising" as well as "The Boys: Mexico" to enjoy. Some spin offs work. Hopefully these 2 will be cool. June 12thI usually don't go to the charity on Fridays but I head in early for a few hours work. At 10.30 we all gather in our big process area to have a tribute for our old boss who passed away. It's nice, her family show up , and eventually we are asked if we have any stories. You could hear a pin drop and no one steps up, so I go- what the fuck and tell a Carol story. Thankfully it's some laughter and some tears. We send her on her way with our love. I can't believe she has gone.June 13thRed Symons of Skyhooks turns 77 today. I think he is the oldest Skyhook.The rain starts and it certainly sets in. So loud at one stage that we had to double the sound on the TV. Midnight sits up on the kitchen window and watches the wet world outside. June 14thI am home early and grab Mark. The sun is shining so I decide to take advantage of the beautiful day, Winter will be freezing us all for months so a small road trip in sunshine sounds good.I love the dinosaur article on the ABC website , especially around Australia's polar past, 100 million years ago. Monash University's palaeontologist Jake Kotevski is one cool guy. So 2 hours later we are standing on the beach at Kilcunda, just down from the Seymour brothers holiday house. We both reminisce about sleeping on Kilcunda beach all of those years when we first arrived in Melbourne. I had a "job" taking photos at the Festival up in the Kilcunda hills. We couldn't get accommodation so knitted our bed cover with green garbage bags and made a BLOB like tent behind the sand dune and lived in it for three days. Fun days with the Kilcunda sea winds howling and trying to rip our dwelling apart. We drive to Cape Patterson next via Wonthaggi. Mark spots a vinyl shop but it's closed (a sigh of relief from him as he is over my vinyl obsession). We venture down to The Cape and arrive at 17 Park Pde , our beautiful old house. It's changed, the spare block of land that came with the house now has a giant multi story house on the land and a house next door. All the land has gone and the poor house in shadow. You can't go back Dorothy. We head to Inverloch driving along the ocean road . I spot The Caves and we call into the dinosaur bone area, the tide is just turning so we will return at 3.20 for the low tide. Onto Inverloch and a cake and coffee at the bakery. The locals are all out and about, Inverloch is now double the size, lots of new holiday houses and sea changers grabbing the land. At 3.15 we drive back to The Caves (Dinosaur Dreaming). Lots more cars have arrived. We know what we are looking for and rough co ordinates where to look. The tide is way out so I pace my distance and head out over the rock platform. I find a rather large dinosaur footprint sunk in to what would have been mud. It's a huge one. We find scratches and chicken like dinosaur feet marks. We check out the cliffs and just enjoy walking about in the sun. Sea water fills my runners so soggy socks for the rest of the day. It's getting close to 5.00 so we head back. As we drive along we see the Eagles Nest , the giant stone monolith rising by the ocean. We pull the car in and decide to go photograph it before the sun sinks. The state government are building a beautiful observation platform for the coastal areas near the car park, it will be great. Especially for those older people who can't do the staircase and the rock strewn beach. We scamper down and head to the Eagles Nest which I have reclaimed as the Gryphons Lair. I take a few cool photos. Mark heads to the other side while I take some photos for the tourists. We walk along the beach and Mark holds my hand, romance is not dead. Two hours later we arrive home at 7.00. What a great day. June 15thOur kitchen tap is dripping and it's not the usual washer wet job that I can do but thankfully our friend Al the super plumber says he will do it and generously VERY generously lets me buy him numerous coffee's for doing so. So we lock in a day etc. Such a good bloke.In the late afternoon our security cameras click on and it is our local friends Adrian and Barry. They ran into someone at the supermarket who told them about the run in with Crab Woman and they arrive to check on us. They also come with a giant bag of Dahlias as they know it's my favourite flower. Very sweet. It's a big effort for them as they are ancient, so I am feeling the love. We are watching Night Sky - with Sissy Spacek and J.K. Simmons from 2022. The 2 older retirees who have a hidden secret chamber in their backyard, with a machine (Portal) that sends them to a chamber on a deserted planet. Mark says it's a very "slow" show, but I kind of like it , it means the actors have to actually ACT and no distractions. Sadly it has been cancelled so no second season. June 16thRoad maintenance starts on our top road, thankfully I leave for charity before it starts. It's a 2 day job and they are replacing the entire road, well resealing it etc. Laurel who is on the work team tells me they are redoing the entire corner of our place. Which is great. Thanks Premier Jacinta Allan, she says Crowded House are her favourite band. HA!I think that idiot Abbotts idea of culling sharks is pure stupidity. It would not reduce the risks of attacks because of sharks migratory behaviour. They should cull Abbott instead. LOL. What a fuckwit he is, the Liberals must be desperate having that idiot back on deck. The last 2 nights have been warm (ish) very strange as the days are Winter cold. Winter is creeping up. June 17thI wake up and feel a tiny vibration of my old magic stirring in my soul. Feels great , now to get it back to 100%. I just feel different, in a good way.The road maintenance continues and all the workers are bleary eyed as I wave goodbye for Food Bank. Mark decided we should put up TWO Tim Finn videos today. The first, Tim on Denton (April 1994) performing MANY'S THE TIME . A slightly different version, this ones worth checking out. You can do so here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVJrMwu9ck0 The second Tim Finn clip is from the 7.30 Report. HIT THE GROUND RUNNING. May 1991. Tim is singing so well in both & looking great. You can enjoy the 2nd clip here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dvu6npg3epc Both have 600+ views in the first few hours. Some nice comments from the Frenz of the Enz. Thanks to everyone for supporting Markys YouTube Wednesday and especially to Mark for his tireless efforts. He does this for you guys to enjoy. June 18thNice to hear from Mark Hart, he sounds good, producing some young artists and still playing the piano. Such a talent and lovely bloke.I found a scrap of paper blowing around the car park this morning and it simply said "Be Kind". So I will take that as my inspirational message today and make an extra effort to be nice, especially to angry frustrated people. I walk around the charity and let people know all of our free bread arrived and some packs of doughnuts. People suddenly rush the free bread stand, even some free breads helps make people happy. Leviticus is in cinemas today , it looks pretty cool, add it to my watch list. June 19thHappy Birthday to our friend Alison. We give her a call and sing to her. We have a nice long chat, a few laughs.It rains today and rather cold. I head out to the nature strip when there is a break in the weather and pick up the greenery and stones left by the roads people. They were so good, did all the side areas and the large clay road gutters. The road feels as smooth as a baby's bum, the Black Beauty purrs as she drives down the hill. It looks like they did road repair all the way to Olinda- fantastic. Early night for me, in bed by 10.45, just needed to catch up with some sleep. Midnight cuddles up to me all night, such a sweetie. June 20thGrey and wet, Winter weather.I still sit outside at the bakery in my big gorgeous coat. My friend Ian turns up and he joins me, he is the wisest person I know around plants and gardening. As we are chatting my friend Ruth from my charity calls into the bakery so we all talk for awhile. She's great Ruth, I work with the best people. Home again and in the office today, getting this diary ready. Marks putting together the image for a video that we are putting up today and a few scans. Midnight climbs up on my desk and watches me work in between her cat naps. So we decide on a video today, some of our oddball or not so obvious or simply very cool videos go up on days that are not Wednesday. The video today is from 1975 (TV show GTK). Our mate Jen Jewel Brown has had several poetry books, as well as writing Skyhooks "Million Dollar Riff" book. One book "Marsupial Wrestling" has a poem about Lou Reed. GTK went to the airport when Lou landed in Sydney. July 1975. So when Lou's airport interview aired on GTK, they also ran an interwoven feature with Jen Brown and her poem around Lou Reed. Lou's out to shock, being a bit of a media prat and the GTK crew don't really fall for it. After all this isn't America... Skyhooks were #1 at the time - the press now bullet proof to it all. It's a fascinating video and great little time capsule. The support on Lou's Aussie tour were this mostly unknown band that just came in from New Zealand, called Split Enz. Jen Brown looks rather foxy in the video as well. So please check this one out here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzGRvtokyiM&t=3s June 21stWinter solstice, and the shortest day of the year. The South Pole is pointed away from the sun.Yay a free coffee at the bakery this morning. I take my new work book and scrawl down a few ideas. Lots of people say good morning to me which is nice. We photograph a few more t-shirts for the archives in the afternoon. So many tour shirts from our three main bands, it never seems to end. I get a call from my friend Lilly , who worked with us at the Kalorama Disaster Hub. She is an amazing cook, so no surprise that she will soon be on TV with her own cooking show. It is lovely to hear from her, we promise to catch up again soon. What to have for dinner; Mark suggests Pizzas as we have some salmon, so that one is for him, I'll create some sort of Mexican pizza for myself. So another diary comes to an end. Stay Happy, don't let the bastards win. xxxPG |
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