Historian and maker of small scale model aeroplanes
Aussie Fans is the title of an academic tome about fandoms in Australia, mostly contemporary analysis. The opening chapter is a historical discussion of science fiction fandom in Australia before the mid 1960s that I wrote. The University of Iowa Press published the book at the end of last year.
Handley Page to Yak For about ten years from 2000 I regularly wrote two page kit build reviews for the Modellers of Ballarat newsletter. I’ve collected them together and present them, in two parts for convenience. Handley Page Victor B2 – Matchbox 1/72 Hawker Siddeley Gnat T1 – Airfix 1/72 Heinkel He178 – Condor 1/72 … More 106 Kit Build Reviews part 2
Airbus to Grumman For about ten years from 2000 I regularly wrote two page kit build reviews for the Modellers of Ballarat newsletter. I’ve collected them together and present them, in two parts for convenience. Airbus A300B4 – Airfix 1/144 Airbus A330-200 – Revell 1/144 Airbus A330-300 – Revell 1/144 Airbus A340-200 Revell 1/144 Airbus … More 106 Kit Build Reviews part 1
As a rule our two cats, Tristan and Isolde, get on well together. They chase each other around the house for fun and cuddle up together on the bed, but there is one thing that causes war to break out between them. It is the old cardboard box behind my computer screen. Tristan believes it … More Cat in a Box
I got back from the Heritage of the Air conference in Canberra a few days ago but have been trying to catch up since then. It was an event sponsored by ICOMOS so there was a lot of heritage discussion as well as aviation, which I found interesting, and a good time was had by … More Heritage of the Air in Canberra
Our two cats, Tristan and Isolde, were born on 1 August last year. Here are a couple of photos taken of them on their first birthday (not that they seemed to notice).
David Grigg and Perry Middlemiss do a fine podcast called Two Chairmen Talking which is about what they’ve been reading and watching recently, mostly science fiction or stuff related to it. Back in Episode 5 there is about half an hour of me being interviewed about history and the history of Australian sf fandom I’ll … More Talking about history and a history of Australian fandom
This not one of my usual walks, in fact it is a walk that I had never done before, and am unlikely to do again because it is a bit too long. I mainly did it to draw a circle around all the walks that I normally take, with the exception of those along Scott … More Victoria Street – York Street Walk
Leigh Edmonds little box of stuff 