My Life

I have been thinking recently that it’s getting to that time when I should assemble the salient moments

of my wonderful and gratifying life, methodically in one place.

If I wrote an autobiography, for my family, friends, and anyone who would be interested in reading it – and it could be my next book, perhaps volume one - then the chapters that I would include would address these following significant moments, memories, tears and laughs – but not necessarily in this particular order.

Why write it? It would be another tome to leave behind to share with others or simply to stir the memory and enjoy.

• My best friends are silly sausages.

• Don’t hide behind diplomacy. Just be truthful and say what’s in your heart. Or, diplomatic answers say nothing.

• Women are wonderful, but blondes can melt me away.

• A chauvinist and a gentleman.

• Blue eyes are beautiful; green eyes are gorgeous.

• The police escort out of Lakes Entrance.

• Only a few things would change if I had my life again.

• A luxuriant moustache, frothy beer and cappuccino.

• Adventure and travel flow in this Sagittarian’s veins.

• Vodka, red wine, a business-class seat and my intravenous machine.

• Coffee is the elixir of my life.

• I would drive a thousand miles to get what I want.

• Trivial jokes and laughter; nostalgic music and tears.

• Monash University – great years!

• Cancer is an acquaintance, not a friend.

• I surround myself with people who like me, and whom I like.

• The Seventies – a magic decade.

• Rude anecdotes are good for my heart.

• I love to draw, and to write. I love to create.

• This True-Type font was to be ‘Cavalier’, a reflection of my sense of humour. When it’s not cavalier, it’s wicked.