The Life and Times of Peter Green
updated 11 October 2026
 "A snap with my local member, Labor’s Daniela De Martino. She’s a good egg!" |
September 21stI love the Who Gives A Crap new toilet roll designs. A limited edition Halloween box, each roll with a different Halloween design.Mark puts together a "Boys In The Band" bluray for me and we watch it tonight. The bitchy Queens are our favourites. The movie came out in 1972 and a lot of the Gay Lib supporters hated it as there was some type casting. But it just makes us laugh, some people are way too serious. September 22ndA restless sleep last night. Not sure why, not my recovering leg , my brain just ticks over at around 4.00 am.A milestone on the weekend. The AEMO recorded that over 80% of the energy in the grid came from renewables here in Australia. I do chuckle that Hanson slags off renewables yet she has solar panels on her houses. What a hypocrite she is. Our house and contents insured again. A relief as we are overdue for bushfire up here. It does sit on ones mind a lot. Some insurance companies will not insure properties up here on Mt D. So we stick with the one we have. September 23rdFood Bank was great today, a bit of sunshine and everyone is way happier. The grey depression fog has lifted.Absolutely shattered today. I hear from Merl Girl, her beloved life partner Jen has died suddenly. The girls lived in the apartment below , at East St Kilda. The Woodface apartment. We 4 were so close, this kind of rips my heart out. It would be like Marky dying. Merl is so strong but this is as sad as it gets. We are in shock. Strangely enough we just put a live version of Neil singing "Anytime" as our video Wednesday. "I could go anytime, There's nothing safe about this life, I could go anytime".... is ringing in my head. September 24thI've told the world that we need a few days to ourselves. I won't let go of Marky, some grieving is happening. I check in with Merl again and I just cry. She brightens me up which is what I should be doing for her.I leave a message for Giles as it is his birthday. It's about all I could do today. September 25thA public holiday for the Footy. I work in the garden. I sit in the sun with Mark, trying not to be sad.He brightens my day up by handing me a Bluray of the latest season of Star Trek- Strange New Worlds. Sci Fi my great escape. September 26thI chat to an American woman from Colorado in front of the bakery. She is loving her visit to Australia. She tells me we are such a lucky country. I think quite a lot of Aussies do not appreciate how good they have it here. Best country on the planet. We are becoming a country of whiners though and that shits me.I help the bakery girls put out the table and chairs. The fog starts rolling in around lunch time, the return of the grey. I love that Kylie is flying around the MCG on a platform, at the Grand Final. It makes me laugh. Nigel from Split Enz calls and we chat for awhile. September 27thI see biker boy at Olinda this morning. He is such a strange young man , a mere 23. I really like his bike. His name is Clemt' and he is from France. He reminds me of the Into The Wild movie. I hope he doesn't have the same ending. He loses his biker gloves but we do find them so he is calm again. Clem's off to Tasmania so I tell him where to find my friend so he can swim with the platypus. He tells me that Australia is his favourite country so that is nice. I wish him well. Yeah he's a bit cute, just a bit...We watch a Stephen King movie tonight , it was ok. We love his books but many of the movies are hit or miss. September 28thOh no Roma from Number 96 is dead. We are loving Number 96 on Brollie streaming. The sex and saga drama from the seventies. The clothes and the hairstyles, Dudley always hanging to the right in those tight pants, and Don with his shirt completely open, Vera the drama queen and Flo Patterson smoking in every scene. I'm surprised Mr Perky her budgie didn't die from lung cancer.Bongo's daughter Indiana calls, a nice long chat with loads of laughs. I know I don't need to but I do like to check in on Bobs daughters. In 2 months Bongo has been gone for a year already. It's kind of shit, he still should be here with us. We (well Marky) has something rather special for the sad anniversary. Something we both forgot that we filmed. So that is a nice surprise. I found an old diary of mine from Greville street and look up the day when Chrissy Amphlett came to visit. I made a side note that she lived across the road at 58 Greville street (we were at #55). She was very excited when she realised and told me all these cool stories. That was a great day. I find a painted rock with a face on it, on our letter box, which makes me smile. I spend the afternoon working in the yard with Marky. We get a lot done. September 29thI order a vinyl EP. The 12 inch of the new Chrissy Amphlett (and Tim Finn) 3 track. "Some Times". Just via Chrissys band camp page. I forget how much vinyl costs in 2026. It's a little treat for me. It says only 200 made but I bet that changes.Kofta sticks for dinner - yum. Our latest discovery. September 30thUp early for Food Bank. The sun comes out again and we get a lot of deliveries today so the boxes are full. They look magnificent.Markys YouTube Wednesday a cool one today. The second Crowded House show with Tim Finn in the line up. After the Myer Music Bowl gig, it was onto a private jet and off to Sydney to play a second gig at the Sydney Entertainment Centre. November 24th 1990. SHOW A LITTLE MERCY. Quite a decent version as well. You can enjoy it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-RhXXEd14M By midnight 2000 people have enjoyed the clip. It's always nice when I don't have to work the arse off to get some last minute views. Greg Skyhook calls and we chat for almost 2 hours. A really good conversation. He's up for the filming of "Skyhooks 1976". We start filming soonish. Mark is chomping at the bit to get it underway. Rocktober 1stWe were so blessed as Aussie teenagers to have 2SM/3XY Rocktober. Countless free concerts with our favourite bands. Great days to be a teenager in Oz.It's raining outside but really hot. A strange tropical feel to it. I think the Free electricity starts today, from 11am - 2PM, so hopefully our power bills will be even less. October 2ndWe were meant to see Andy White, Laura and Kevin at The Quarry. The weather is crap and I have the blues over Jen's death. So not the best company , so I cancel.I put together a Magnetic Island list for our friend Polly, great things to do on the island. She appreciates it. October 3rdAn earthquake at 2.05 this morning. Midnight wakes me up 5 minutes before - see animals do know. A 4.8 magnitude. I grab the cat and hop under the door frame. It is all over soon enough and only 1 noticeable aftershock.My uncle has been gone 1 year, I check on Mum a few times during the day. It would be hard being the only sibling left. A tornado rips through the NSW town of Ulladulla. Thankfully Giles and Fen hadn't arrived at the 'Dulla yet. Imagine being out on the paddleboat and the tornado hits. Yikes. October 4thSo I head to the Halloween shop at Ferntree Gully to buy some cobwebs for the Book Cave at charity. I decide to call into The Quarry and run into Andy White so we sit and chat for a short while. Somehow over the next half an hour I am kidnapped by my awesome local MP - Daniela De Martino and her Federal counterpart the adorable Mary Doyle. Andy W knows Mary and is amazingly supportive. Mary has a music background she has been in bands etc. So it ends up being Daniela's Labor campaign launch at Wally Trew Reserve. I head in and this table of lovely older Labor supporters grab me, the real deal, so nice. The guy next to me goes "You're Peter Green", turns out he is a big Split Enz fan that saw them first in 1975. So he picks my brain on everything Split Enz. Daniela is onstage and boy what a speech, I could never do that , so impressive. She is this mighty local member that gets so much done, yes a rare breed. The extension to the Angliss hospital, her tireless passion around saving William Ricketts Sanctuary etc. I somehow win a $500 box of hair products and just a really lot of fun with Mary Doyle - both of us chatting about music. I meet Daniela's husband and he plays Rugby or did , so I impress him with my dad coaching Bobby Fulton story all those years ago (Captain of Australia). Everyone walks me out and I do get a snap for the diary of myself with Daniela. I love that my day can spin on a dime and become so wonderful. Most politicians I think are real shits but Daniela De Martino for Monbulk is awesome. She is the real deal and a good person. RARE!We binge watch "7 Up series". Just love it, watching how the 14 kids change every 7 years. Suddenly it is 3am. We couldn't stop watching it. October 5thI finish work in the art room on the Halloween table covers for the Book Cave at work, plus one of my arty Boo Bags. Ancient suit cases tarted up for Halloween. This one has aliens and UFOs on it. I've called it "We Come In Peace". Fairly happy with it. Now what will we be this Halloween. Maybe something traditional like 2 old vampires.October 6thI sleep in by accident, I keep forgetting to update my clock, so I am running an hour late. It doesn't matter too much , just less time to sit at the Kilsyth cafe and drink my coffee.The Book Cave looks great with its 2 Halloween tables. Packed full of stuff. Items start selling straight away , lots of nice comments. I post some express delivery envelopes on the way home. Ticking things off my "To Do" list. October 7thMarky's YouTube Wednesday. Our awesome Skyhooks boys. Live at Festival Hall , Melbourne on the reunion tour in April 1983. Four sold out Festival Halls and such a passionate crowd. We put up MILLION DOLLAR RIFF - one of the few live videos that has never been seen before. It has 6000 people watch it in the first 24 hours, which is amazing.You can enjoy it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pcy3b71-WJ8 One of my last Physio sessions with Phil. All is going well. Still a bit to go but I'm about 60% better. Yay. I'm lucky as he really is great, knows what he is doing. To make it weirder, my sister now has a similar problem with the same leg. Too weird. October 8thI am loving the dawn photos from the Mars rover Curiosity , dawn over the wind carved cliffs near Mt Sharp.Some of the staff are sick today, so we are running the charity with a skeleton crew. By late afternoon I was just happy to be home. It's great doing stuff that helps the community but some days I just want to hang with Marky and Midnight. October 9thSplit Enz play the Formula One in Singapore today. A really predictable set , a short set, 13 songs. A bit of a money grab which is ok, they've earned that right, all those years starving.I chat with a music loving friend at the bakery, and the sun is so nice. We all need some vitamin D. October 10thHappy Birthday to our friend Al the plumber. We all share vanilla slices in his honour.Mark is working on the running order for the Skyhooks 76 documentary. I call poet and music writer Jen Brown, as she will be first cab off the rank in front of the cameras. We have lunch outside in the sunshine. Midnight curling up under Mark's feet - she loves her Dad. We both plot and plan away in the glorious sunshine. October 11thSo this three week diary comes to an end, sorry my fault with the delay, it was hard to get this one started. Sometimes it is like that, other times the words just flood out.How many days to Christmas? It's kind of freaking me out how much momentum there is, the days are rolling on by. Stay safe and be happy. PG |
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