Even though creating videos to share online on YouTube is a bit of a pain, I prefer reading the comments from viewers and fellow readers. This morning I read one that I loved. As a history buff, this reader brought back to life a part of Melbourne that was long since forgotten: Cheshire’s Bookstore. What […]
Capturing Stories of Honorary Life Members
One of the things I now do (as well as play golf), is to volunteer with the Heritage Group of our golf club. I was fascinated with its history which I recounted in this video below. I talked about a novel I accidentally stumbled on some time back that recounted the history of the people […]
Colourised Old Films
I spent a few hours today watching old films. When they’ve been colourised and no doubt sprinkled with some magic AI and there’s something that seems a little more “real” about them. Having the soundtrack too makes the film that more emotive so you can’t help but get sucked in. Or to start crying like […]
Pretending Like it’s 1942
Over the last few days I’ve been pretending it’s 1942 in Melbourne. It was a weird time back then. Singapore and Phillipines had fallen to the Japanese and there was a general sense of impending doom. The prime minister of the time, Curtin, inspired Australians to serve and that was the time, the war came […]
Some Thoughts on Filming
On Tuesday I had my first job as the new member of the Heritage Committee at our golf course. I was to film an interview between two long term members who spoke about their story and memoirs of Margie Masters who won a title at the LGPA in 1967 and a member of our club. […]
Invitation to Join the Heritage Committee
Yesterday I was surprised and delighted to be invited to join the Heritage Committee of the Woodlands Golf Club. Ever since I wrote the article about the fascinating story of the Mayfield Estate that used to be on the golf course grounds since the mid-1800s and demolished in 2002, I’ve had members come up to […]
Quiet Time
It feels a bit awkward to write something here as I feel it’s been a while since I’ve had anything of note to say. Nothing much has been happening in my life and in fact, I don’t mind it at all. There’s a quietness to my days and there are days where I get up […]
More Mutiny on the Bounty
Today while the workmen outside banged and drilled, I had to escape the house for a little while. I decided to go to the local strip of shops in our suburb and peruse the opp shops. Opportunity (‘Opp’) shops are places where people bring in their old clothes, books, shoes, furnishings, anything really, to be […]
The Natural History of Love
My new book review is now published on YouTube. How this book got into my hands was full of coincidences that I simply couldn’t explain and wrote about them in the blog post: Eerie Coincidences. In the video, I wander around the golf course showing where the site of the original Mayfields House was. I’m […]
Eerie Coincidences
On Friday last week I headed over to the Woodlands Golf Club in Mordialloc. As a newly joined member of this golf course on the sandbelt of Melbourne, I now have a place away from home where I could meet new people, play golf and socialise whenever I want. It’s a welcoming club and I […]
Friday Friday
I had a lovely day today despite the weather being grey and miserable. I headed down to Station Pier to spend the day with a friend walking and catching up with news. Despite my photos below looking nice and sunny, the water and skies all blended into one sludge of grey. There was no wind […]
Second Hand Books
I love old book stores. Yesterday I found the City Basement Book shop hidden away between a couple of shops. A small single non-descript door and a long flight of stairs down into a squirrels den of musty, dusty books. I remembered going into this store back in the early 1990s and now that I’m […]