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Eureka!

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When that ancient Greek, Archimedes, dipped his toe into the bath tub he yelled ‘eureka!’ He made a major discovery. Something about displacement of water so I won’t bore you with the details but he was a very happy chappie. I had that experience a while ago, a toe dipping eureka moment. It happened in […]

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Slackawritis

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One of the problems with social media is the dissease that has infeckted many people. A disease that can bee found on bloggs, twittor, websytes and every udder form of social media. The disease is called slackawritis. The simptoms appear as soon as one uses a keybored. The symptoms?  Bad speling and poor gramma, witch […]

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Losing Your Marbles?

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My favourite game at primary school was marbles. Every day we would play under the big oak tree, which had the only dirt patch in our concreted schoolyard. We would draw a triangle in the dirt and place our marbles in it. About 4 metres away we would draw a starting line. Each player in […]

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Sitting Duck

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This duck happened to be sitting nearby and I grabbed my camera and took a few shots. It happened in Warburton 77 km east of Melbourne, Australia, just alongside the Yarra river that runs beside the town. Sue and I often go there to do our business planning during the warmer weather. The duck’s silver […]

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Roy Boy

My memoir about growing up in the working class slum of Fitzroy during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Sabres Basketball eBook

Sandringham Sabres – The First 25 Years – 1974-99

Fast break your way through 25 years of history of the Sandringham Sabres (now known as Southern Basketballl Association)

In this e-book, snippetts, stories, photos, raw prawns, stats, results, awards, articles, reveal a community of dedicated basketball enthusiasts who shared their dreams, achievements, frustrations and disappointments to help create a large basketball association where 1000’s of children and adults now play in a eight-court stadium.
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Chris Chats .. about the good, the bad, the sad & the funny - selected short posts - vol. 1 Chris Chats Volume One

Books I’ve Read

Chris's bookshelf: read

Beau Geste
5 of 5 stars
Beau Geste
by P.C. Wren
Jaws
4 of 5 stars
Jaws
by Peter Benchley
Fahrenheit 451
4 of 5 stars
Fahrenheit 451
by Ray Bradbury
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
4 of 5 stars
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
by Philip K. Dick
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
5 of 5 stars
The Liberator: One World War II Soldier's 500-Day Odyssey from the Beaches of Sicily to the Gates of Dachau
by Alex Kershaw

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Current Writing Project

A second memoir. Roy Boy was my first published in 2023.

Other Projects Planned

1. Screenplay
2. Books on street photography
3. Podcast
4. And many more – stay tuned :)

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