index

This page is for both navigation and chronology.

As this story keeps growing, there is no definitive format.

For now, coming back here is the best way not to get lost in this tangled story which is, in its own way, a bit of a graphic metaphor for the years that have unfolded.

Push to Start

A Bit to Tell

Part I: Roots & Restlessness

Early Years 1960’s / Reflection

Chapter 1: Three Beginnings

Monash 1961

Barmera 1963

Gerard 1964

Coober Pedy 1965-66

Point McLeay 1967

Gerard 1968 – 74

Early Years 1970’s

Chapter 2 Too Many Schools

Port Augusta 1975 - 1980

Early Years 1980’s / Reflection

Chapter 3 Trying on Lives

Adelaide 1980

Melbourne 1980

Adelaide 1981-1984

Chapter 4 Laura, Trains & Singapore

Laura 1984-1987

Adelaide 1987

Melbourne 1988

Chapter 5 End of Round One

Hamilton 1989-1993

Part II: Work, Welfare & the Wide Brown Land

Stepping Up 1990’s / Reflection

Chapter 6 Disability, Horses & Hard Knocks

Horsham 1993

Hamilton 1995

Shepparton 1995

Chapter 7 Going it alone (again) and going bush (again)

Mildura 1996

Berri 1997

Broken Hill 1998

Stepping Out 2000’s / Reflection

Adelaide 2000

Brunswick Heads

Ocean Shores

Chapter 8 Headlong & Headstrong: Enterprise, East Coast and Elsewhere

Middle Years 2010’s / Reflection

Chapter 9 systems Sri Lanka

Sale

Drouin 2010

Moe 2011- (current)

Chapter 10 North Again

Billiluna 2014-15

Alice Springs 2017-18

Elcho Island 2018-19

Katherine 2020

Mataranka 2021

Part III: Elsewhere

Airport Days

Anything but a Bicycle

Views Between

Dots on a Map

Europe in Pieces

Asia In Pieces

Singapore: Its Own Story

Part IV: Older & Wiser / Reflection

Katherine, Mataranka and Coming Home

Gladstone & Moe 2021 – (current)

Part V: Here We Go Again

Heading North (again)

Community Life / Reflection

Reflections

The Work Behind the Scenes

Out of the Way Places

An Ordinary Monday

A Not so Ordinary Tuesday

Living, Working, Passing Through

Dots on a Map

Time Passages

How your face looks

Random Crackle in the Ear / Reflection / An Unforgettable Adventure

Achievement Unlocked / Identity in Constant Movement

Old Fat Tired

The world is an interesting Place

Life is a Great Big Canvas

Don’t Take life too seriously

What I miss about being Young

No Value in Regret

Cringe

Time Leave Footprints

August 1st 2020

Images

Part I

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Part V

This thing with lists

Airports

TV

films

YouTube

music

books

games

magazines

podcasts

radio

theatre

audiobooks

Old Stuff