So it's Sunday afternoon, and I had a couple of spare minutes. Looked the two of you up in Wikipedia, just for the fun of it. A couple of excerpts:
"Ken was a larrikin by nature, and many of his exploits feature in Hugh Lunn's books, especially Over the Top with Jim and Head Over Heels. In later years, he was instrumental in gaining significant funding for medical research in Australia, through his association with Chuck Feeney. In 2008, Hugh Lunn published The Great Fletch, a book on Ken's life around the globe."
"The best known of his memoirs is Over The Top With Jim. Published in 1989, it became the biggest-selling non-fiction book in Australia for 1991. It tells the story of his Brisbane childhood and his friendship with Jim Egoroff and Ken Fletcher. After reading the book Egoroff is said to have visited Lunn and threatened to "punish you for your sins""
"Wireless". My birth certificate shows 'Father's Occupation' as "Wireless Technician". He was VK4ZT at the time, but not operating due to the war.
Those years 'radio amateurs' (hams) had to build their own equipment. My 'job', punching holes for valve/tube sockets in an aluminium chassis. A Greenlee punch. Which is how I learned to 'correct' way to use a 'shifter' wrench. You've stirred up memories again.....
That;s the beauty about writing about the past — it only takes one word — like ‘wireless) — to bring back so many memories.
Just got an email from a woman working with people with dementia and she cannot believe the effect on her patients reading out some of the old Australian words from my “Lost for Words” book has. “The recognisable lingo acts as an astonishing jolt back in time … you are making for some wonderful moments with people who are living through one of their darkest hours”.
So it's Sunday afternoon, and I had a couple of spare minutes. Looked the two of you up in Wikipedia, just for the fun of it. A couple of excerpts:
"Ken was a larrikin by nature, and many of his exploits feature in Hugh Lunn's books, especially Over the Top with Jim and Head Over Heels. In later years, he was instrumental in gaining significant funding for medical research in Australia, through his association with Chuck Feeney. In 2008, Hugh Lunn published The Great Fletch, a book on Ken's life around the globe."
"The best known of his memoirs is Over The Top With Jim. Published in 1989, it became the biggest-selling non-fiction book in Australia for 1991. It tells the story of his Brisbane childhood and his friendship with Jim Egoroff and Ken Fletcher. After reading the book Egoroff is said to have visited Lunn and threatened to "punish you for your sins""
Fair enough.....
And that’s the bok I’ve turned into a 142-episode radio serial, or podcast to use the modern term — and should I say “wireless serial”? Hugh
"Wireless". My birth certificate shows 'Father's Occupation' as "Wireless Technician". He was VK4ZT at the time, but not operating due to the war.
Those years 'radio amateurs' (hams) had to build their own equipment. My 'job', punching holes for valve/tube sockets in an aluminium chassis. A Greenlee punch. Which is how I learned to 'correct' way to use a 'shifter' wrench. You've stirred up memories again.....
That;s the beauty about writing about the past — it only takes one word — like ‘wireless) — to bring back so many memories.
Just got an email from a woman working with people with dementia and she cannot believe the effect on her patients reading out some of the old Australian words from my “Lost for Words” book has. “The recognisable lingo acts as an astonishing jolt back in time … you are making for some wonderful moments with people who are living through one of their darkest hours”.
Hugh