1961- Onward

After the big OS trip - working Caulfield, skiing trips and up to Noosa and back via Outback in new VW sedan - visited stud sheep station near Orange. Got a guitar. Got into folk music & coffee shops. Married 1966 and went to USA. Lived Charlotte NC - worked in small rehab hospital for paras and quads 3yrs ,.. Divorced after 1 year. Good jobs - no good pics. Beach and Smokey mountain holidays - lighthouse at Cape Hatteras, very old black and white spiral paint. Moved to Raleigh NC to OP orthopedic clinic, then Nashville c1969-71, Baptist General Hospital. Then Baltimore 1973. On the professional rat race with ever more interesting and rewarding career path public speaking and part time teaching and preparing to write book... air pollution and snow bad for my health... Trip to Rio de de Janeiro for a week. In 1975 Nov - back to Melbourne for good. Heart stuffed. No exciting jobs here but good climate and food and less crime - no ice and snow. Small population. Good to be back with family and old friends. Melbourne a good place live. Made a big trip round the East coast from Melbourne to Bribie Island Queensland. Many years later- playing recorders with a few groups and acting the clown playing them at the Myer Music bowl and even made the evening TV news!

1963 took up the guitar and learnt from Sadie Bishop after glandular fever

VIEW TO NOOSA MAIN BEACH FROM BALCONY ON HASTINGS STREET

Near Noosa at Maroochydore I think about 5 houses there.

1964- FOLK MUSIC ERA

St John's Camberwell 1966 - BEST MAN-ME-BRIAN-LIZ

BRIAN IN TAHITI

NICE CHARLOTTE FOLK I MET RAISING MONEY FOR SOME ANTI DRUG CHARITY

CAPE HATTERAS LIGHOUSE

NEW CAR VW 1600 NASHVILLE TN

My Leather Craft Stall c1971-4

Amish Horse carriage Pennsylvania near Baltimore

Pebbly Beach NSW c1979 trip with Dot

1980 Xmas Wendy's

Laurel and I play Handel's Fireworks on recorders myer music bowl with the sparklers burning around us

Visiting Uncle Alan of Devonport in hospital c1998

LASSIE c1993

2006 Flying Saucer Architecture factory SE Melbourne

Hoddles Creek - Autumn in the Dandenongs near Melbourne

We travelled from Launching Place through lovley winding roads through the hills with bush and farms to the end of a road where we found Karen's wonderful large garden at Hoddles Creek, in the Dandenongs - part of The Open Garden Scheme. There was a heated patio with devonshire teas - welcome as this was a very cold day. The huge landscaped garden with many roses also had ponds, "rooms" and a small football field was surrounded by rainforest complete with tree ferns. There were many native birds too including a Yellow Breasted Robin and an unusual honeyeater I could not identify.

James Richmond percussion player in Berlin and Melbourne

James Richmond is currently playing percussion with the NAKED RAVEN contemporary music group in Berlin. He is also a great web site designer and has created this stunning internet site with his CV and audio samples and some more photographs like this one - as they perform around Europe.

Arts and Crafts House and others Ivanhoe

This is a slightly altered house by Harold Desbrowe Annear 1903 in Eaglemont.

Ravenswood Registered Historic House no. 199

'Ravenswood' at 40 Beauview Parade in the Melbourne suburb of Ivanhoe. This house is an Italianate Renaissance-style built in 1890-91. It has a two-storey colonnade of Corinthian columns, Tuscan pilasters, a single-storey pedimented porch, balustrades, parapets, cornices and festoons. It is set in large sloping garden with a huge hundred year old fig tree, and other large trees and superb view to the City.

Heidelberg Artists and Architecture - Charterisville

Charterisville c 1840 was built by David Charteris McArthur, Manager of the Bank of Australasia [ ANZ]. It was sited high on the hill overlooking the valley to the east and his 168 acres of land down to the Yarra River which had orchards and vineyards. This house is now only half of the original structure - the northern part being removed for the purpose of subdividing land for houses in 1960. This half of the house was leased by Walter Withers from 1890-94, be E.Phillips Fox,and Tudor St George Tucker who became the founders of what is now called The Heidelberg School of Painters which was an informal collection of artists adapting French impressionist style to Australian conditions and included Tom Roberts, Arthur Streeton, Frederick McCubbin, Walter Withers and Charles Condor, Jane Sutherland, Clara Southern and Emma Boyd (the wife of Arthur Boyd, May Vale and Jane Price. There were small dwellings on the property that were leased to artists who painted from the landscape all around Eaglemont and the Yarra. These photos show all the original parts of this house with the exception of some woodwork around the courtyard area. The cellar was probably very important during the summer months before we had air conditioning.

Banyule historic house in Heidelberg

Here are some photos of one of the first houses in Victoria which still survives. It was part of the Banyule Estate - now only 1 hectare - in Buckingham Drive, in the Melbourne suburb of Heidelburg. It is built in the Gothic Revival style made from stuccoed locally sourced hand-made bricks and sandstone foundations with walls 75 cm thick. This historic house on a very steep hill or bluff overlooks parklands that were once part of the original huge farm on the rich river floodplains. Now the view across the river is mostly houses... This "Banyule" house was built by Sydney explorer Joseph Hawdon on a 266-hectare estate. Hawdon transported livestock from Jugiong on the Murrumbidgee to Melbourne in 1836 blazing a trail for others. In 1838 he contracted the first mail run from Melbourne to Yass. Also that year he became the first to overland cattle from Howlong [NSW]to Adelaide. The next year he settled at Heidelberg and built the 'Banyule' homestead which was completed in 1846. The Hawdon family owned it until 1863. Banyule Homestead was on an estate of a huge area until the 1890s when it was only 750 acres. The original house was extended in 1907. In 1958 most of the 240 acres of the original estate land was sold and controversially developed into a housing estate. In 1974 it was bought and restored by the State Government and it became an affiliate art gallery of the National Gallery of Victoria between 1977 and 1985. In 1996 extensive alterations and additions were made. Currently 2006, this historically significant house is in private ownership and appears to be in rather an unkempt state:it is partly painted in different shades of yellow/white, with overgrown lawns and very few trees or shrubs, and an ugly high wire fence across a smaller gate and around the permimeter bordering on the Main Yarra Trail, public parklands. [Photos through wire]

Achievable Gardens Melbourne Flower Show DIY

Here are some photos of the winner of this do-it-yourself category at the 2006 Show. Designed for a budget cost of around $2000 for a small patio or courtyard garden in Melbourne. And other ideas for small courtyard gardens

A weird garden at the Melbourne Garden Show

A large expanse of timber, the Aussie area with the hub caps & red car seat, an Aboriginal or native hut and a tent? Bad photos - dappled ligh & bad collage.

My favourite garden at the Melbourne Flower and Garden Show 2006

Telephone marketing pests cold calling phone calls - can be stopped!

I thought you might be interested to know that I have found a way that has worked to stop all those very annoying, harrasing telephone calls that are not from friends around dinner time @#$%$%%%. When the phone rings and I say hello and there is either dead silence or someone asks who it is speaking I know it is not a friend - so I just say "wait a minute" and put the phone on a table nearby without ending the call... This wastes their time and now I get NO COLD CALLS! from about 3 an evening every day of the week and at weekends!! Of course after about 5 minutes it is a good idea to remember to press the button to end the call. If I want to change an account, buy something or make a donation etc., I will initiate the call . I sure will not act on any cold calls.