The Life and Times of Peter Green
updated 9 November 2025
 Halloween ….Kalorama Style. (2025). |
October 20thI meet James from Manchester in the car park at Bourkes Lookout., He's only lived here for 6 years, and loves being in Australia. We chat about Johnny Marr and other stuff before the heavens open up with rain.I have the smallest case of the blues, just lingering on from the funeral so just want to spend a bit of time away from the world and maybe being a tad creative. So I set the jacket up on Richard the Mannequin and work on NATURE for Halloween. Miss Midnight sits on my bed and plays with the endless amounts of plastic vines and flowers that I have for the outfit. It's really layout first to see if it works. I've made it so I light up a bit too. I add the vines to the pants and put the paper mache head on the mannequin. It is pretty freaky looking but I really like it. I am NATURE hear me roar. October 21stMy sleep habits have returned to normal which is a relief. We let Midnight have full run of the house now so she can visit us and sleep on the beds etc whenever she wants. She sneaks in and cuddles up to me while I am asleep, a lot of the time I don't hear her climbing up. She pats me on the head, I am in some strange mourning moment , so keeping clear of most humans for a little while. Just doing things at my speed.So sad the brilliant PM Gough Whitlam has been gone for 11 years, one of my few heroes. A man of vision. USA desperately needs our critical minerals and rare earths for its batteries, cars and yes missiles and loads of other things. Since Trump stuffed up its fragile trade with China , who has a vice like grip on the global supply, it puts Australia in a very good position. A meeting with PM Albanese goes ahead and Trump says some glowing things about Albo. Good to see Mr Trump kissing Albanese ring! Watch the heads on the right implode over that moment. October 22ndRain, rain and more rain. All our water tanks in the yard are overflowing. It will mean everything will grow like the Amazon in our yard.Marks Youtube Wednesday is an interesting one today. So little footage of the Pajama Club on the internet. We (well Mark) filmed them at The Corner on June 15th 2011. We put up two songs- SUFFER NEVER and the Numan/Tubeway army cover of ARE FRIENDS ELECTRIC. I keep writing are FRENZ electric which seems more fitting I guess. Anyway you can enjoy the footage here, it's great and sounds so good. I hear from Ex Skyhooks lead singer Tony Williams, and it looks like he and Leonie will be visiting to sit down with their brushes and paint our gorgeous Ailsa Craig home. I think I might encourage a few other artists too, the place is coming up to 100 years old so what a nice way to celebrate her aging beauty. A big windstorm is hitting Melbourne, we could hear it and trees crashing down in the distance but most of it avoided Kalorama, or was it our place that was spared? One chunky tree limb down which took out some of my lemon tree but apart from that we were left alone. Plenty of damage along the tourist road though. Melbourne medium house prices have risen two within $10,000 of its record high. Medium House price is now $1,083,043,, Up 2.2%. October 23rdI work on the new vinyl stand at the charity today. I wish we had more second hand vinyl, so few donations of it these days, people are holding onto their records I guess, or flogging them on Ebay.We are both loving DEXTER -Resurrection. A brilliant season and it looks like they have signed back on for another season. Good news. He's such a nice serial killer. Him and his dark passenger. October 24thI'm still need to mourn and just relax. Keeping away from humans for awhile longer (I know I keep saying it) , just being kind to myself and checking on our family. Christmas is getting closer and I know that will be an odd time without our Uncle at the lunch table.It's Belles birthday in a few weeks so I go grab a small present and card and mail it off to France. My brain is mush but I did try to make an effort. I get a call from Bongo which is nice, he sounds a bit better all things considered, I know inside his body is fighting a war so there is sadness in the back of my brain and a clock ticking. I stay brave and just be a good mate. Nice that he can call us. We watch the Number 96 movie. A movie from the iconic aussie tv show from the seventies, so many funny lines. It's like DON'S PARTY we love our Aussie classics and watch them every few years. Homemade Pizza for dinner. October 25thMy Uncle would have turned 80 today, it still doesn't feel like he has gone. My sister organises a small gathering at the local club at Wollongong for his mates and shouts them all drinks which was nice of her.Our tree line is now covered in Rhododendrons, all up there in the trees, pinks, purples reds and oranges. They look sensational. Not sure how old the original bushes are but to be that high up they must be very old. It's great having all of that colour high in the sky. October 26thCanada angers Trump, good one Canada. Canada is so much more like Australia than America. Probably why our bands have always done so well in Canada too, similar musical tastes. We love visiting Canada.I love the ancient rock carvings that they recently found at Murujuga Peninsula in WA. The only place on earth where the story of the people and environment have been continuously recorded for 50,000 years. Exceptional drawings of the thylacine and the northern quoll. I call my cousin David to check on him during his ill health. It never seems to end. I must be adopted I am way too healthy. October 27thI call into Burkes Lookout and clean up some more plastics near the launch site for hang gliders. I fill another bag of stray small plastics, which won't find their way into wild animals stomachs. Even if I do 2 hours a week, it gets rid of plastic crap out of the environment. Hikers thank me and ask who I work for, when I tell them I'm just a local and off my own bat they are a bit taken back. Which seems strange to me, surely people still just go and do things for the sake of it being good thing? Maybe I am a freak?I work on the Halloween costume for an hour. It is tedious but starting to come together. NATURE will rise in time for Halloween. I'm playing NUDE & RUDE, the best of Iggy Pop in our office. I've always been big fan of his GIMME DANGER song. I really love the cover of that in the Velvet Goldmine movie , performed by The Venus In Furs , vocals by Ewan McGregor. Venus in Furs is a fictional band comprised of musicians from other groups (Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead, Bernard Butler from Suede and Andy Mackay of Roxy Music). FUNTIME by Iggy Pop is pretty cool too. A rather good Best Of from Iggy. It did get a silver sales award in England. Just one country, just one award. October 28thEarly morning supermarket shopping before charity. A bit of a weird afternoon, ending with us calling an ambulance to get my cousin to hospital. My sister so flat out at work sidetracked by more family drama. I try to be the good brother and not add any drama into her life, unless it's good drama.A category four hurricane makes landfall in Jamaica, the Caribbean is getting a battering. October 29thI hear from Nick Seymour who is in town with Crowded House but we are away for the few days that they are playing , but nice that they wanted to catch up and some tickets. I'm sure the shows will be loads of fun. Thanks Nick.Markys Youtube Wednesday is up. It's a really cool one today. Tim Finn at The Conty Prahran. Extra cool as it's the encore and Paul Hester jumps up to play drums. So nice to hear Pauls laughter at the start of the song. Tim covering Dave Davies from The Kinks DEATH OF A CLOWN. It really suits Tims voice so make sure you check this one out. A true rarity. October 30thUp early, the Sun is out, I feel very awake. I must of slept well. My brain is ticking over, call in for my one a day coffee at the Garden Cafe. All the crew are on, the owner and the girls are always so nice to me in the morning. It's good to start your day on a positive.We have a rush on the Halloween items in the Book Cave at charity. All my art suit cases have sold except one so that's pretty cool. I only have about 5% of stuff left, so for the charity it was worth doing. I put 2 Halloween tattoos on my face, they look a bit like I have been serving Jail time, prison tattoos. How funny. I check the stats on our Youtube channel and we have had exactly 6,200,000 views. Remarkable. So if you are reading this and gone and enjoyed any of our 829 videos, we thank you. Imagine if we even got 10c per video, but no, nothing, we do it for the fans, well mostly Marky putting them all together. I'm just a figurehead that filmed a few of them. I remember to buy a lotto ticket for our mate Kevin, his birthday in a couple of days , a predictable present but a card and a lotto ticket , at least we remember and I am hopeless at birthdays. Thank goodness Mark reminds me, hell I'd forget my own birthday if he didn't tell me. My best friend is the joy of my life, no one comes close. October 31stHalloweenI left my tattoos on which a few people commented about at the bakery during coffee club. A quick morning for me, I need to be home and continue last minute work on this crazy NATURE Halloween costume. The weather is terrible , so we don't expect many Trick or Treaters tonight. I do a mini set up of table for the treats tonight by our gate and a quick Halloween bit of set dressing. I stitch away on my costumes, Marks is so easy -he is a Gorilla. Head, furry coat and I saved a banana this week for him. I carve a pumpkin, Midnight is happy as it is a Halloween cat. Noel Crombie calls around the Split Enz costume book so I am happy to help him with that. Noel pretty much always gets a yes from me. I know I have (on purpose) stepped back from Split Enz but Noel is God and even a Demi God with a Cuban papermache head will bend the knee to Mr C. At 5.15 our neighbour Hisako arrives to take some photos of us. I put a ladder up and Mark sits in one of our ancient trees. I add shiny foliage to a pitchfork as NATURE needs a weapon. Ok I need a prop, I feel stupid without one. Mark can't see a thing, and neither can I, my Cubone style Pokemon head piece is just as bad as the eyes are on the side. As long as I don't stab Mark with my pitchfork. It starts sprinkling with rain later. The flying ghost in the tree has a sensor so I know when Trick & Treaters arrive to help themselves to the one of the candy bags. At least 6 are gone. I spot 2 little ghosts walking out of the gate with bags and into their Mums car when I come back with dinner from the Fish and Chop shop. No I didn't wear the Cuban Halloween head. Imagine trying to drive Black Beauty with that head on. I manage to get the outfit back on and sit on the ancient steps with the lit Halloween pumpkin and the pitchfork. I look like some sort of Regal Demi God- Nature! November 1stI grab a take away coffee and head to the charity. I decided to bump out the Halloween stuff from the Book Cave so it's all re-set. Just a few hours but good to have it done. I don't like Halloween things hanging around. It's all about the night.Home by lunch and pack up our items. I have a Halloween ancient suitcase now so the various bits & pieces go into that, nice and neat. I'm rather worn out , so a rare Nana Nap at 1.00. I fall into a very deep sleep and wake up, unsure if it's night or morning. It's neither, just late afternoon. Wow I must of needed that nap. November 2ndWe watch "Scream, Queen! My Nightmare on Elm Street". The 2019 documentary film which relates to Nightmare Ion Elm Street 2 : Freddys Revenge. It is about main actor Mark Patton and how the whole thing affected this life. The films reputation for homoerotic themes and how Mark Patton was closeted at the time and all the drama around it. Anyway it was interesting, a bit of a fascinating journey around the fan conventions too.Dutch centrist leader Rob Jetten claims an election victory and only 38 years old. I know zero of his parties politics, he's not bad on the eye eh? Good to see the far right lose again- bunch of arseholes that they are. November 3rdA week of rain to go. It's kind of set in. I play Guns & Roses NOVEMBER RAIN in the car as I drive, seems fitting.Nothin' lasts forever And we both know hearts can change And it's hard to hold a candle In the cold November rain I decide at the last minute to drive into the Burkes Lookout car park and do a quick tidy up. James from Manchester returns and he seems thankful that his job is easier seeing I've done some of the plastic clean up. I show him the half bag of tiny plastics as the council really cleans up the larger items. Can you believe my Uncle has been gone one month. To make the day more freaky my cousin goes walk about from the hospital. So the family is on deck and we find him. We wonder if the various drugs they have given him have made him go bit trippy. Today also marks the beginning of the ACT's voluntary assisted dying scheme becoming legal. A chance for some to die with dignity. November 4thA public holiday in Victoria. Happy Birthday Kevin too.I get to hang out with Lemmie the dog at the bakery. Only 10 weeks old but what a cute ball of fluff. I work in the office all afternoon. I had good intentions to work on this F/16 diary but was side tracked by phone calls, emails, a radio interview and going through my wardrobe to find some clothing donations for a charity. Hence it being a 3 week diary this time. November 5thI get a call from Bongo Skyhook again which is nice but I am sad. He is still fighting the fight against Leukemia and back in hospital. It just seems so unfair. We have a laugh but he can't talk for long, as even that is painful. If I could take some of the pain away and suffer it myself I would do it. He has been like brother for Mark and myself. I try so hard not to cry, he'd probably hate me crying so I hold off.Mark see's I am sad and gives me Superman on Bluray. How cute is Krypto. We enjoyed the movie. Markys Youtube Wednesday -three songs from Split Enz at two different rehearsals on tour. One is Neil taking over Tim Finns vocals on TITUS. It is really cool, and you can enjoy it here. November 6thI pay our last bill , only just, so about $1.25c in my account but all done, nothing owing which is great. Talk about juggling. It's always at the end of the year , because of airfares, rates etc, it takes such a chunk out of our savings.Congrats to new New York City mayor Zohran. Watch Trumps head explode over this win. Great he thanked the LGBTQ community too- which he had better support. The same community can easily wave its magic wand if you mess us over. Anyway congrats! Good to see. It's the first time ever that renewable energy from Solar & Wind has generated more electricity world wide than coal. How great is that. Our ancient solar panels still working a treat. November 7thI take a photo of some wild Iris that have popped up at Olinda. Now the Split Enz song IRIS is in my head. These don't appear every year, usually every three years when conditions are right. "I feel desirous…"!We watch the last Fake or Fortune, let's hope there is a new season in 2026. I love the process and the investigation techniques. Cool show for those of us who love art. I do find Fiona Bruce to be rather sexy too in her flared jeans. Pretty hot for 61, and is smart. With all of this wet weather, I need a distraction so I decide to work on the next Soho Punk Art TV. Dr Who this time and it's overall, fairly easy. The TARDIS was going to be difficult as it's so fiddly but it popped into my head that we have a TARDIS cookie jar which fits perfectly into the tv. So bit of a cheat. I do check there are no cookies inside. But being dimensionally transcendental I may have missed a few!! (HA). Yes I know I am a smart arse, but in a Whovian sort of way. So into the art room I go. I strip the Number 96 tv show set out of the tv. I do have the TARDIS blue, well close to it as silk screen paint. Officially the specific shade of dark blue is Pantone 2955C. End of day its a darker blue with a hint of "maritime depth" so I am told. I was a bit concerned about it becoming flaky so just used some stuff from my spray paint collection. A space art back ground and repainted some base paper packing. Once again repainted 3/4 of the tv and added copious amounts of silver glitter. I add a Dr figurine and also a Sontaran. I wish I had a small K9 robotic dog. So if any F/16 diary readers are feeling generous (or your kids no longer want it) please mail me a K9 dog (PO Box 50, Kalorama VIC 3766) just a small one a few cm's in size and I'll add it to the art work & thank you on this diary. I found a small metal Dalek to go inside. I repaint over my Banksy inspired angels on the side with a Red glitter Dalek and a Yellow Cyberman head on the other. Lights in and plastic seal the front. It is ready for the charity on Tuesday. November 8thA reminder that Andy White has a one off show at the Merri Creek Tavern Northcote. It's one of the favourite places to see Mr White play, this cool intimate venue. It is at 111 High street Northcote. 8PM for doors. November 13th. If you have one more gig in you for 2025 this would be good one. Tickets onsale now.November 9thHappy Birthday to Sean Kelly of The Models. He turns 67 today. I love the early Models but especially the Rowell/Scott lineup. The hard to find Models "Melbourne" album is one of my all time favourite releases.I am sipping my coffee at the bakery and local lady has a bit of a rant about things, I just let her go on (and on and on) . Which is ok, I think of myself as an unpaid therapist, let it all out baby. Phew! Shields Up. Domestic bliss today, some house work, Indian chicken sausage rolls for dinner and I bake Mark a chocolate cake in the afternoon. We even consider driving home this Christmas as we are both up for a little road adventure. We shall see. Just instead of the usual dull flying and hire car. It could be fun. Another year is creeping towards an end, a few mates comment they feel older. Do I feel older? Just a tad but not really. I think 2026 could be a good year , I probably said the same thing about 2025? I guess family played a huge part of our life in the second half of this year. So far I have bought 6 Christmas presents. I am determined to get my Christmas shopping done by December 1st. Stay Happy, remember there is always someone in a way way way worse situation than yours. Love Life, this might be the only chance you have. xxPG |
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