The Book

Mike’s Pith & Wind cont. David Porter was at all the TF Much Ballrooms, he was at the Sunburys – in fact David was at everything that was going on in this town. I think that was perhaps what distinguished David from some of the other photographers of the era – he was a fan….

Our first regular dentist was the ancient Dr McIntyre, who was on the first floor off Cathedral Square in the then small but undiminished Christchurch. There was a clanking open-frame lift with pantographic doors, but one felt safer taking the wide polished wooden stairs up to the linoleum landings with their doors of frosted glass….

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..in our collective brain I had my subject. The first thing to do was listen to Ad Nauseam and see whether it had dated or indeed had retained any of the elements that made it funny – or shocking – in the first place. I’d heard the first in the series (Live) many decades ago…

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..differentiates Melbourne from the rest of the world. Or maybe just Australia. It gives locals the joy of being the best in the world at a game that no one else plays or wants to play; in this it is like gridiron football writ very small. Rugby is at least played by more countries though…