The packing up and moving saga entered its second major day today. While I’ve been getting rid of stuff and making preparations for the last couple of weeks, the serious hard core work has started this weekend. My fabulous friend James O’Brien (now aka “the big butch Aussie bloke”) came back again and helped out. [...]
What were you watching on TV in 1976?
You’ll need to click on the image above to see the full sized version and to read the program listings. This is an actual scan of a TV Guide issue dated May 8, 1976. TV Guide was an Adelaide-only magazine that competed with the national magazines – TV Week and TV Times. It was smaller, [...]
A brief sojourn in Adelaide.
I’m back from spending the weekend in Adelaide. it was my Dad’s birthday and I wanted to go out with him and my brother. Unbeknowns to me, my niece and her partner were also in town and staying at Dad’s place. So it was a great family lunch at a nearby pub with a couple [...]
Flashback – A stunning video
I’ve had a major flashback sitting here at the PC tonight. To one of my favourite video clips of all time. And to a song that I am still gobsmacked was not #1 in every country in the world. I’m going back a decade to when this was released – “Stars” by Roxette. The first [...]
27 years later…..
I first saw this song performed by a drag queen in a (now long defunct) pub in Surry Hills, Sydney. It was 1982. It stuck with me for years and years and I’ve previously never been able to find it anywhere. Couldn’t find who the artist was or anything about the song. People thought I [...]
Adelaide, September 2009 – a bit of self indulgence
I recently went back home to Adelaide for Father’s Day. For some reason I walked around town randomly snapping off shots with my digital camera. Shots of places I remember from when I used to live there, places that meant something to me and places/things that have changed since I moved away. There’s also a [...]
How old are you?
I might have been a toddler and then a primary schooler back in the 1960s but there are still early memories I remember vividly. Songs that have stuck with me for around 40 years. And certainly a few that were special to my Mum and also resonated with me. Although we didn’t have the word [...]
A nothing kinda weekend
Sunday night and as I look back I see a pretty nothing kinda weekend. On the left you can see a giant Big W bag (comes up to my knees) that I bought for $2.49 because it was so big. I also got a couple of T-Shirts that were on sale at Big W. Yesterday [...]
See the problem is this: Your 90s wasn’t my 90s
You were off listening to mostly American crap either on the American or Australian charts while I was obsessing over the fabulous pop music flooding the UK charts. Each week I’d listen to ‘UK Chart Attack’ on Sydney radio and buy the latest air-freighted copy of ‘Smash Hits’ from HMV in Pitt Street Mall. Then [...]
It was the 80s…we all dressed like that.
Okay well maybe we didn’t ALL dress like that. Maybe it was only me who had inappropriately permed hair and clothes like a budget airline pilot. And there’s John as Frida from the A Group we don’t talk about anymore. He’d just done a show. I’d just been dancing. I have pimples. I have only [...]
