The Life and Times of Peter Green
updated 27 July 2025
 HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARKY !!! |
July 7thA musician friend gives out my number and I go a bit freaky. Good intentions on his part but we are so crazily private around such things. I was kind and it was genuine "mistake". He's a good bloke, but we are so private and love the life we have. A (small) part of the reason we escaped Prahran was to reclaim our lives.Out of the 808 videos on our Youtube page , we are about to have our first video hit half million views. I know a bit predictable, it's Crowded House, with a live version of "Don't Dream It's Over". It gets nearly 2 views every minute of the day. Amazing. Homemade Lasagne for dinner and I cooked a banana cake too. All these years and I have never made banana cake- how weird is that? July 8thInsane wind, all night, fallen tree limbs across the Tourist Rd. I have to remind myself that I am no longer driving the Red Beast. Black Beauty is more of a delicate beast, a few tree limbs you'd take us out. Not to mention the ice on the road.I have most of the day off, heating being installed at the charity so it's closed. Luxury. I know I volunteer and can finish anytime but I try to be serious around it and do a good job. Some people do depend on what we do. I work up my arm muscles with some serious wood chopping, before the rain arrives. I get it all done and suddenly the sky opens up. It's really bucketing down. July 9thI chat to Bongo Skyhook today which was nice. He is sounding good, slowly his health is improving which is a relief. We've been giving his Go Fund me a push and it's close, 93%. I'm sure this will take some of the pressure off him. I'm just glad he is still with us. It would break our hearts if we lost Bob.Marky's Youtube Wednesday is up. It's a Mullanes live (audio) video. It hits the target number within 2 days , so I won't even run the link here. I notice our friggin' cool Split Enz MURDER is just short of 13,000 views. So if you want a bit of a smile , check out "Murder" . The puppets are awesome. July 10thMy petrol station has changed hands and all the things we loved about it have gone or been changed. If the guy tells me again "it's now privately run' I swear I'll tip his pie oven onto his head. Maybe it's time I found somewhere else to buy my fuel. Don't you hate changes…for the worse?I meet this cool Goth girl called Courtney who LOVES the "Stars" art project suit case. She buys it straight away so the charity scores some dollars. Nice gal, we have a lot in common. I'm in the lunch room and Ian walks in and hands me $5.00. "Courtney said to give you this as a tip". How cool is that. I'm still amazed that it sold within ten minutes. I guess I have to count it as one of my art pieces? I need to keep a list and date made of my various art creations. July 11thI hang with Charlie the golden retriever at the bakery while sipping on my coffee. He's a good dog. A few other people turn up with dogs and go inside. At one stage I am holding SEVEN dogs on leads while their owners buy goods at the bakery. Crazy!We are rather thrilled. The HESSIE (A Paul Hester Tribute) has hit 40,000 views. That's the equivalent of eight sold out Festival Halls watching it. Thanks folks, we are both very happy Producers. July 12thNice present from overseas. A Christian Lacroux of Paris journal. A gorgeous present, thanks T.It's nearly mid July and I was going to hit the Archives this month but have done next to nothing. I keep getting side tracked. It's a bit frustrating. We still need to photograph stage costumes too. July 13thI'm driving back from Olinda and I see the Kalorama CFA selling bulbs as a fundraiser. So of course I stop and buy some , will give them to Mum for her yard as they are Lilium bulbs and poisonous to cats. I let the CFA seller know that too, didn't want our Fire station killing peoples pets!July 14thWe love "FALLOUT" what a magnificent show. I love that it was shot on 35mm FILM. Excellent 3D virtual sets too. I can't wait for season two.July 15thMarky makes me homemade sausage rolls for dinner. So nice. He keeps me happy.My old boss Carol, volunteered at the charity today and she brings in one of her famous Chocolate Ripple Cakes. I had 2 pieces OINK OINK. Good to have her in helping, I am a good lad, I drive her home so she doesn't have to get the bus. July 16thFood Bank was good today, I had the vibe and arrived early and had half filled most of the boxes by the time the others had arrived. A little ball of energy. Some really nice rescued produce. A few new faces asking for help and it's great they can come here. It feels so rewarding helping people. You see the result in their faces , a tiny moment of relief, and knowing they can eat for a few nights. This world wastes so much food. Especially you America, but you don't care do you America?I've finally worked out how to make great soup. OK soup that I like. My Mum always made amazing soup. I have always made crap soup. But as a random idea I did something in the kitchen and suddenly I have this soup that I want more of. Sometimes success with little things can make one very happy. July 17thMidnight wakes me up early so I thought, what the hell, up and off the mountain.I'm sitting in the Garden Cafe , sipping on a rather delicious coffee and making notes in my "real" diary. I love having a paper diary. The wall in the office is full of my paper diaries. One day they will fall on top of me and squash me, and it really will be "that's all he wrote"! I miss Mark today. Sometimes volunteering, I just want to be at home, working in the office with him. I call him during lunch break. All the charity girls go "Hellloooo Marky". It's kinda sweet. I wash the car again when I get home, the roads are rather dusty around here. Maybe it's because it's black car. I seem to wash it more. July 18thMost of today I start on the third "set" for the Soho Punk TV. This one will be a nod to "Number 96". The sexy Aussie soap drama from the seventies. So the Harold Holt Experience is removed from the tv. Totally gutted ,and I respray it white with silver glitter. A bit boring so I stencil up two graffiti fairies on the sides.The 96 apartment block is really a solid shoe box. I'm adding windows after a double painting of off white. Marks printing out the faces of the tenants to go in the windows. He's also printing the advert from the first show. "Tonight at 8.30 ,Australian Tv loses its virginity". Now come, what a brilliant media line that is. The advert will go inside the tv too. So I am working away in the art room for a few hours. I love the Soho Punk Art Tvs. Little time capsules. The finished TV sets sit in my Book Cave at charity on a big platform surrounded by excess dvds. The TV's tend to draw people in, intrigued by ‘what the fuck is that…". Every day someone tries to buy it, every single day. I let all the paint dry and work on some other bits and pieces around it. Our DVD sales have tripled since I started putting up the art tvs. Mum tells me that she had a visitor at the hospital. A relative from up North and she has all these old family photos etc. So Mum finds out some more information from her side of the family. Looks like Mum will be out of hospital in a few days so that is huge relief. July 19thSuperman movie is still at #1 for the second week. The Fantastic Four- First Steps is in cinemas next week.I'm a huge FF fan so love for that to go to #1. Such a fan I'll even venture into the cinema to see it.The Tasmania election is on tonight, I expect the Liberals will easily win this. It's odd, the Libs give all this lip service at the end of the night but they still can't form government. They will have to go to independents with cap in hand. Some of them hate the Liberals so who knows, even a semi broken Tassie Labor may well have a chance. I din't think they will be resolved in 24 hrs, it might well take weeks. Meanwhile Federal Liberals are on the nose in the latest polling, Labor way ahead. The worst Liberal Polling results for 40 years! Ley is a dumb choice as Lib leader, she's a complete fool. Labor must be doing the happy dance over that. July 20th"I had a dream they were clouds in my coffee, clouds in my coffee". Yes I wake up on this fine Sunday singing "You're so Vain". I sit at the Olinda bakery, starring into my coffee, looking for clouds-I think I did see some.July 21stMy Mums home so we are so relieved by that. She's still not 100% but being in her own little house will be a very positive thing. The staff at the private hospital have been awesome to her. So my Mums healthy but Midnight is a bit sick, mostly gone off her food. So we are giving it a few days, changing her diet and keeping an eye on her. Hopefully it's just one of those cat moments and she will bounce back. Hate that the little fur ball is ill. Lots of cat cuddles.Happy Birthday to our friend Trudi. We sing to her, almost a concert we sang so much. We will see her soon, fun to catch up. I chat to a new friend Lyn, who has a house at Townsville near Magnetic Island. We get along really well. New people, new faces, all good. Mark scans up some Skyhooks stuff for the bands Facebook page. Almost 17,000 followers which is kinda cool. July 22ndFree Coffee at the Garden Cafe (again). I sit and chill and watch the early workers head off. I love my life, I am so fortunate. We mostly do what we want to do.The charity was fun today, reworking my Book Cave area for a larger music section. My boss Libby has such music heart and she loves what Deb and myself have created. It is so limited what we have to work with but it's coming together. Libby gives us a thumbs up. Midnight still not eating, but around midnight itself she suddenly decides to snack on some other food I bought her, so a good sign. PHEW. Relief. July 23rdSo Ozzy Osbourne dies. He always made me laugh, and a bit inspiring that only 2+ weeks ago he sang on stage at Aston Villa Stadium. I love how he ascended upward from beneath the stage in a devilish black throne. At least with Ozzy "up there" heaven will finally have some kickarse parties.138 aged care residents have died due to Covid 19 since the beginning of June. I am so glad our Mum is back in home and away from hospital and Covid outbreaks. Funny how I finished the Number 96 Soho Punk tv art piece on Abigails birthday. Abigail a bit of a sex siren tv star from the show in the seventies. Apart from Cher etc she was probably one of the first "stars" to only have the one name! Anyway as the sun sets I switch on the lights in the 96 building and it looks ok, passable. I'll take it into the charity tomorrow. Markys Youtube Wednesday is excellent today. Cool footage of Split Enz in New Zealand. At the Auckland show and the Dress Rehearsal at Christchurch. The band performing Matinee Idyll. You have to check this one out, it's great. I filmed it on our half decent camera, not bad. Great sound too. LOVE Eddies solo in the clip. July 24thFantastic Four-First Steps is out today in Oz. It did $57 million from 4,125 theatres across Friday and preview screenings. The second biggest opening day of the calendar year. I'm a huge FF but waiting for the crowds to drop bit before seeing it in the cinemas.I am awake way too early so head to Bunnings to buy a present for Markys birthday. One of the fold up saws from Alone plus a few other things. I grab 2 tubs of curled parsley. One for my garden and another as gift for our neighbours. I also grab a Phlox hybrid called "Jagger" (yeah like Mick). The Charity is fun today, we finish off the new Music section, bit of building by yours truly. During the lunch break I check out some of the upcoming "The War Between The Land & The Sea". Wonderful that Russell Tovey he is in it-we dig Russell, those cute fold out ears of his, I just want to nibble on them. A great addition to the Dr Who universe, bring it on. July 25thCold and Grey outside this morning while I am outside picking some flowers for Trudi. Not much on offer but enough for a small bouquet.She arrives at 11.00 and we all swap presents. I have a bag of lemons for her too, as we have so many. Good for Winter all that vitamin C. We have brunch at Olinda Cafe and it's really really enjoyable. She totally spoils us. Not sure if we were a bit loud as at one stage the place emptied out apart from us. HA. So good to see her, she's a great friend. July 26thHappy Birthday to Bongo Skyhook and Mick Jagger.I decide to give Bongo's GoFundMe a push . His daughter set it up to help him with some of the medical costs around his Leukemia. I thought we'd try and get it to the total by the end of the day. We do well, we get it to 97%. So close. If you are reading this and love music and want to make a donation to help this lovely bloke, just type in Bob Starkie Go Fund Me into your search engine. Mark laughs that on Jaggers birthday I'm out in the yard planting a Jagger shrub in the garden. It has funky purple flowers on it. A bit like Micks purple eyeliner from 1975. I chat to Bongo on the phone, he's sounding good, continuing the good fight against his Leukemia. He his so genuinely humble around the donations. Nice that we had a bit of laugh as well. I can't imagine a world without Bongo in it, it would make me so sad. Glad he is still here to celebrate another birthday, he continually thanks me for all the help. He's mate,that's what friends do. Mal Green texts me tonight, which is always a welcome thing. It was fun working with the Enz. I get along well with Malcolm. My long lost brother. I head to the Olinda Fish and Chip shop tonight to buy some dinner. Cute Angus is working and shows me some footage of the axe/ Hatchett throwing place down the road. Yes you pay to throw tomahawks at targets. Think he will have to take me. I'm good with an axe. July 27thHappy Birthday to the magnificent, sexy, smart ,world's best producer Mark Goulding.I climb out of bed early to hang a Happy Birthday sign. Of course the packet didn't tell me that each letter had to be hole punched and put on string. I manage to get it done 5 seconds before he walks into the kitchen. Midnight and myself sing to him. He wanted a cheesecake for his birthday cake this year, so the bakery girls made one for him. I add berries and Pirate candles onto it. It looks great. Lots of phones calls and presents which is nice for the boy. It's nice to celebrate another year passing the open windows (don't jump). Love Ya Marky and on that note it's goodbye from me dear diary. Peace! PG |
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