The Life and Times of Peter Green
updated 16 April 2025
 "Good Luck Ali France for the seat of Dickson" |
March 31stHappy Birthday to the other Mark but we can't get through on the mobile, looks like there are some problems with the mobile towers on Mt Dandenong. It happens from time to time, the joys of living in a National Park. Maybe it's time to upgrade the towers?I pay our post office box fee today for another year, so PO Box 50, Kalorama VIC 3766 is ours still for another 12 months. I call into Burkes Lookout with the clean up bag and pick up some rubbish on the hike track. It only takes 15 minutes and after that I just sit and chill out , in awe of how beautiful this area is. I feel so very lucky. One of the black face wallabies hops up and we share an apple. I've seen him before, he has a tiny piece of his ear missing. I wonder if he recognises me or just wants to sucker some apple out of me? Our HESSIE (A Tribute To Paul Hester) hits 30,000 views by midnight. April 1stI arrive early in the Woolworths car park and drop some cans into the recycle machine and give the money as donation to one of the animal rescue centres. It's only $3.10 but it all helps. You can do that when you cash in cans at the machine, a huge list of charities to choose from.Good to see the crew at the charity, it seems very quiet today, just noise wise. We all do our bit and the day goes by rather quickly. Some regulars from the Nerd Crew arrive and buy up big in the Book Cave, comics, action figures and some cool pop culture books. I guess no one does April Fools jokes anymore, it's kind of died hasn't it. I make a killer Lasagne for dinner tonight. April 2ndSad to hear Val Kilmer has died, he was amazing as Jim Morrison in The Doors movie and a passable Batman. I put in my request to Mark to watch The Doors movie tonight.It's Wednesday so Markys Youtube Wednesday is up. Some footage of Paul Hester with the Largest Living Things boys at the St Kilda Festival. It's a video we filmed that wasn't used in the HESSIE documentary so we thought while everyone is loving Paul we'd put it up as the Wednesdays treat. It's called "Headless Chook" . Filmed at the St Kilda Festival. February 14th 1999. You can enjoy it here. We do some grocery shopping and I buy a few Easter Eggs for presents. I have a few things for Maddison already so in a few days I'll send them all home. Hopefully Aussie Post won't destroy them too much. April 3rdA free Wild Bean coffee with my fuel today. Got to love that, always a nice way to start the day.Ex Crowded House crew member Lloydy calls and he tells us how much he loved the HESSIE documentary. Which is really sweet as he has known Paul for a hell of a long time. All those early Crowded House tours etc. Nice to hear from him, so good he stays in contact so often. April 4thI do some of my election training on line, 4 hours worth. Most of the time I get 10%, maybe 2 questions wrong, not bad. Some of it is boring but I stay focused as it is good to freshen up on election procedure. Apparently 100,000 of us work for the AEC at election time.April 5thWet and Cold today , a crazy cold front has moved in. Ian meets me at the bakery and gives me a bag of what look like Dahlia bulbs but turn out to be Nerines. Orange flowers I think. So kind of him. The bakery girls need some lemons for cooking so I pick a big bag of them, should keep them busy for a few days. They try to give me a free coffee for them but I refuse, sometimes it's nice to give a fruit gift with no strings attached.We watched the last episode of season two of Mystery Road. I think Season One was a bit better. Big fans of Aaron Peterson and he packs a nice lunch in his Levis. Tasma Walton is great too , a good actor and she's naturally pretty. The Aussie scenery is stunning and filmed so perfectly. April 6thI do a few YouGov surveys. You actually get paid to do them, well kind of, a pittance but it keeps some people employed also, so why not.I like that someone called Duttons latest policies "Trumpian Brain Farts". That made me laugh I'll have to write it down. I see that even biased Sky news is starting to attack Dutton saying he isn't PM material. That's when you know you are bad. When Sky turns against you. LOL . I think Albo fell off a stage today, is he becoming our own Joe. Daylight savings comes to an end. Mark likes that, my Mum also likes that it is over, it doesn't worry me either way. April 7thWeird weather, still cold and hail and sleet fall on my car. I call into Burkes Lookout for a quick tidy up of the walk track. It's miserable weather and I am the only person on the track. I fill a bag with rubbish using the claw from Pip and Jace. Great present. I make it back to the car just as the heavens open up.Roy Morgan Poll. Labor Up. 53.5 LNP down -46.5. So all 4 major Polls now have Labor ahead. You never know if you can trust the Polls. I like Labors solar battery deal. $4000 off. 75,000+ homes had batteries installed last year. Up 47% on 2023. 4+ Million aussie rooftops have solar panels now too.IT's kind of tempting, we need more solar panels though. April 8thI hear from Richard Lowenstein (yeah that one Dogs in Space) and the video tape of our Paul Hester interviews arrived safely, so hopefully he can get what he needs from that for the Crowded House documentary.So flat out I'm finding it hard to go to Hair for the Hills and get another chop and dye job. So I grab some dye from the supermarket, a coffee brown, just to get my hair back to some sort of civilised condition. Just want to look passable for the election work. I hear from Nick (Seymour) tonight which was nice. We chat a bit about Paul, even now it's all raw for us. He says some nice things about the documentary & he watched it, and even though it is full of joy it really is hard for all of us around Paul to even watch something so gorgeous as HESSIE. Anyway nice to hear from Nick. Thanks for the kind words on the documentary too. April 9thI chat to my friend Paul at the bakery today, he's off to get his fence fixed. We are all, continually repairing things up here. It never ends. I take the rest of my coffee with me and head to the Free Food program for a few hours. We almost run short of boxes to put the food in and one hero turns up with exactly enough. Some of the locals come up and say "Love the HESSIE documentary" which is so nice. I can tell they are being sincere.I see and independent Ellie Smith is running in Dickson too. I hope she gives her preferences to Ali France. Between both of them it might be enough to toss out Dutton, we can only hope. Today's Markys Youtube Wednesday is Crowded House. One live video from the first fan club show at The Corner Hotel on November 20th 1996. A rather potent version of WHISPERS & MOANS. You can enjoy it here. April 10thSome other election stuff to do today, it takes up a huge part of my day so no visit to the charity. I chat to the girls, a fun bunch, and it's nice to be missed.I do speak to Bongo Skyhook and he sound really good, he is fighting this cancer and at the moment he is winning, some improvements. I am so glad he is still with us, I just can't imagine if Bob was no longer in our life. Fucking cancer, I hate it. April 11thI know we missed it the first time around but really loving TOTAL CONTROL via the ABC (iView). An Australian Political Drama Series. Rachel Griffiths is superb as the PM, and it is Deborah Mailman's best work. Loving Harry Richardson as Alex's chief adviser at parliament. Several great storylines and brilliant characters. The dialogue is biting and passionate, and there seems to turmoil at every corner. Three seasons so that will keep us out of trouble for awhile.April 12thMy Facebook page via my computer is in some sort of off line BS, the mobile phone version is working so I can add that way. It's just annoying . Maybe the universe telling me to have break from sheep book.I am side tracked today so feeling too frazzled to cook so head to Duncan an Olinda and buy us a Pizza. Lots of healthy fruit today so we have been too good. Sis and her hubby and Maddison have gone to the Sydney Easter Show. Fond memories as a kid of going every year and my awesome Uncle Jack buying me a crazy amount of show bags. April 13thSleep in, no coffee today. Sometimes it's good to have zero coffee. I see some Polling for Duttons seat of Dickson. Labor's Ali France has now overtaken him. I know one doesn't count ones chickens before they hatch. Labor (Ali France)-52, Liberals (Dutton) 48. Imagine if she bumps him off, Dutton gone from politics-that would be great day for Australia. She seems like a good egg that Ali France, brilliant to see her sandbagging for 3 hours during the floods in that electorate. Good local members are the ones that roll up their sleeves for the community.On that positive note…. Stay Happy Peter |
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