Pongo is old now. I watch him move slowly and carefully in the garden. His cataract eyes and poor hearing makes it difficult for him to recognise me. He no longer chases away the red, blue rosellas and yellow crested galahs that dared ventured into his perfect garden. Once they would scatter shrieking into the […]
An Act Of Kindness
Dave Grant died last Sunday at 4.25pm., aged 50, from pancreatic cancer. Who was Dave Grant? Well, he was a high profile Australian comedian. And over the years I’d seen him perform on stage and television but I did not know him personally. I only met him once and for a brief moment. It was […]
Easy Rider
Easy Rider is one of my favourite films and it certainly gets my nostalgic juices flowing back to the late 1960’s. Watching this clip from the movie and listening to the Byrds sing ‘The Ballad of Easy Rider’ brings back many memories of a young lad dreaming of escaping what I thought was a boring […]
Daddy Who? Daddy Cool!
I remember going to the Melbourne Town Hall in the early seventies to watch the hottest act around at the time – Daddy Cool. I was in the balcony and Daddy Cool had the whole place rockin’. People poured into the aisles, both upstairs and downstairs dancing away. It was fantastic. Even staid old me […]
