Gordon Duncan
@gordunc44.bsky.social
Books, music and nature photography. Can’t be @rsed talking about politics.
Member of Friends of Morwell National Park and Entomological Society of Victoria.
Reside on unceded Gunaikurnai Lands.
Member of Friends of Morwell National Park and Entomological Society of Victoria.
Reside on unceded Gunaikurnai Lands.
Vale Bob "Bongo" Starkie from Skyhooks. In the early Countdown years I was a Skyhooks, not a Sherbet fan. Only a couple of years later The Saints would release I'm Stranded and the world changed overnight. Despite that, I still have affection for those early Skyhooks years. youtu.be/E03HpnmoyZ0?...
Toorak Cowboy (2024 Remaster)
YouTube video by Skyhooks - Topic
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November 29, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Vale Bob "Bongo" Starkie from Skyhooks. In the early Countdown years I was a Skyhooks, not a Sherbet fan. Only a couple of years later The Saints would release I'm Stranded and the world changed overnight. Despite that, I still have affection for those early Skyhooks years. youtu.be/E03HpnmoyZ0?...
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⚡ 24 November - 1 December ⚡
We’re running our first ever Black Friday promo… our own way! Blak Friday online now: www.magabala.com
This week, every online order goes into the draw to have your entire purchase fully refunded. One lucky customer = their whole order free!!
We’re running our first ever Black Friday promo… our own way! Blak Friday online now: www.magabala.com
This week, every online order goes into the draw to have your entire purchase fully refunded. One lucky customer = their whole order free!!
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
⚡ 24 November - 1 December ⚡
We’re running our first ever Black Friday promo… our own way! Blak Friday online now: www.magabala.com
This week, every online order goes into the draw to have your entire purchase fully refunded. One lucky customer = their whole order free!!
We’re running our first ever Black Friday promo… our own way! Blak Friday online now: www.magabala.com
This week, every online order goes into the draw to have your entire purchase fully refunded. One lucky customer = their whole order free!!
Until now all of the books in Polygon Book's excellent Darkland Tales series have been published in Australia with their original minimalist covers which brilliantly reflect the intent of the series. Not Benbecula which Text have published with the bloody awful cover on the left.
November 20, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Until now all of the books in Polygon Book's excellent Darkland Tales series have been published in Australia with their original minimalist covers which brilliantly reflect the intent of the series. Not Benbecula which Text have published with the bloody awful cover on the left.
"The hammering of guns, wrestling, locked in conflict
Like brute, stone gods of old struggling confusedly"
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Like brute, stone gods of old struggling confusedly"
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Poem of the week: Leaves by Frederic Manning
A landscape of illusory peace is depicted just before the guns of battle reach it in the first world war
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November 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
"The hammering of guns, wrestling, locked in conflict
Like brute, stone gods of old struggling confusedly"
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
Like brute, stone gods of old struggling confusedly"
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...
I bawled my eyes listening to this live because included amongst the 374 pipers are family friends and members of the Morwell Caledonian Pipe Band who will be playing at my father's funeral tomorrow morning. Dad is a life member and former pipe major of the band. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
374 bagpipers break world record on 774 ABC Radio Melbourne Drive - ABC listen
374 bagpipers have gathered in Federation Square to break the world record for most bagpipers playing in one place, heard live on 774 Drive with Ali Moore.
www.abc.net.au
November 12, 2025 at 7:17 AM
I bawled my eyes listening to this live because included amongst the 374 pipers are family friends and members of the Morwell Caledonian Pipe Band who will be playing at my father's funeral tomorrow morning. Dad is a life member and former pipe major of the band. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
A little video of one the Striated Pardalotes which has been nesting in a hanging pot in our garden. After they moved in I fenced around the pot and then roughly placed some wire over the fence to protect the nesting area. The added bonus is that it gives them a safe perch just outside the nest.
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 PM
A little video of one the Striated Pardalotes which has been nesting in a hanging pot in our garden. After they moved in I fenced around the pot and then roughly placed some wire over the fence to protect the nesting area. The added bonus is that it gives them a safe perch just outside the nest.
Had an amazing time sitting in the front row seeing Bleak Squad at the Melbourne Recital Centre last night. The photo was taken during the encore when they played Summer High, a Magic Dirt song which featured Roland S Howard.
October 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Had an amazing time sitting in the front row seeing Bleak Squad at the Melbourne Recital Centre last night. The photo was taken during the encore when they played Summer High, a Magic Dirt song which featured Roland S Howard.
June Lockhart, always fondly remembered by me as Maureen Robinson in Lost in Space, has passed away at the age of 100. Love this story about her from The Guardian.
October 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM
June Lockhart, always fondly remembered by me as Maureen Robinson in Lost in Space, has passed away at the age of 100. Love this story about her from The Guardian.
“Day to myself. Will I see anyone. Will I see anyone. Don’t care. Sounds rude, it’s not rude, it’s not antisocial, I don’t need to see anyone.”
Nova Scotia House - Charlie Porter
Nova Scotia House - Charlie Porter
October 26, 2025 at 4:34 AM
“Day to myself. Will I see anyone. Will I see anyone. Don’t care. Sounds rude, it’s not rude, it’s not antisocial, I don’t need to see anyone.”
Nova Scotia House - Charlie Porter
Nova Scotia House - Charlie Porter
First Eastern Koel heard this morning. The monotonous sound of summer has arrived.
October 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
First Eastern Koel heard this morning. The monotonous sound of summer has arrived.
Ooohhh!!!
Found this on my library app.
Josephine Rowe reading her leading her latest work, Little World.
Ooohhh!!!
Found this on my library app.
Josephine Rowe reading her leading her latest work, Little World.
Ooohhh!!!
October 17, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Ooohhh!!!
Found this on my library app.
Josephine Rowe reading her leading her latest work, Little World.
Ooohhh!!!
Found this on my library app.
Josephine Rowe reading her leading her latest work, Little World.
Ooohhh!!!
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Magabala is thrilled to announce the acquisition of award-winning Mununjali and Dutch author, editor and educator, Ellen van Neerven's first middle-grade novel.
'Ruby's Web' will be published by Magabala, February 24, 2026.
Read more: bit.ly/4nS7ML0
'Ruby's Web' will be published by Magabala, February 24, 2026.
Read more: bit.ly/4nS7ML0
October 16, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Magabala is thrilled to announce the acquisition of award-winning Mununjali and Dutch author, editor and educator, Ellen van Neerven's first middle-grade novel.
'Ruby's Web' will be published by Magabala, February 24, 2026.
Read more: bit.ly/4nS7ML0
'Ruby's Web' will be published by Magabala, February 24, 2026.
Read more: bit.ly/4nS7ML0
New addition with added story.
I ordered Boy Parts from its original UK publisher back during the Covid lockdowns. It never arrived; one of a few no shows at the time. Hard times, small publisher, I didn't ask for a replacement. Was surprised to find the Faber reprint in my local QBD today.
I ordered Boy Parts from its original UK publisher back during the Covid lockdowns. It never arrived; one of a few no shows at the time. Hard times, small publisher, I didn't ask for a replacement. Was surprised to find the Faber reprint in my local QBD today.
October 15, 2025 at 6:34 AM
New addition with added story.
I ordered Boy Parts from its original UK publisher back during the Covid lockdowns. It never arrived; one of a few no shows at the time. Hard times, small publisher, I didn't ask for a replacement. Was surprised to find the Faber reprint in my local QBD today.
I ordered Boy Parts from its original UK publisher back during the Covid lockdowns. It never arrived; one of a few no shows at the time. Hard times, small publisher, I didn't ask for a replacement. Was surprised to find the Faber reprint in my local QBD today.
With the prevalence of low attention streaming services it seems crazy that someone would release a triple-album, but Jeff Tweedy has done it with Twilight Override. And succeeded. This fantastic homage to Velvet Underground and watching bands in dives opens the 3rd album. youtu.be/GJdpGt35DMY?...
Jeff Tweedy "Lou Reed Was My Babysitter" Official Video (Twilight Override)
YouTube video by wilco
youtu.be
October 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
With the prevalence of low attention streaming services it seems crazy that someone would release a triple-album, but Jeff Tweedy has done it with Twilight Override. And succeeded. This fantastic homage to Velvet Underground and watching bands in dives opens the 3rd album. youtu.be/GJdpGt35DMY?...
I've been let loose in @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social again.
October 11, 2025 at 4:15 AM
I've been let loose in @paperbackbookshop.bsky.social again.
General Knowledge crossword clue in The Age today.
"Who is the pessimistic farmer in John O'Brien's 1919 bush poem who constantly fears ruin?"
That miserable prick Hanrahan was a longer answer than they required.
"Who is the pessimistic farmer in John O'Brien's 1919 bush poem who constantly fears ruin?"
That miserable prick Hanrahan was a longer answer than they required.
October 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
General Knowledge crossword clue in The Age today.
"Who is the pessimistic farmer in John O'Brien's 1919 bush poem who constantly fears ruin?"
That miserable prick Hanrahan was a longer answer than they required.
"Who is the pessimistic farmer in John O'Brien's 1919 bush poem who constantly fears ruin?"
That miserable prick Hanrahan was a longer answer than they required.
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🦋 #BogongMoth — Agrotis infusa 🌌
Observed by Matt Campbell in Jeeralang Junction, Victoria, during the #GSB2024 this remarkable migrator travels to the Australian Alps each summer to escape the heat, now Endangered due to drought and climate change. 🌿
#GSB2025 #CitizenScience #Biodiversity
Observed by Matt Campbell in Jeeralang Junction, Victoria, during the #GSB2024 this remarkable migrator travels to the Australian Alps each summer to escape the heat, now Endangered due to drought and climate change. 🌿
#GSB2025 #CitizenScience #Biodiversity
October 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
🦋 #BogongMoth — Agrotis infusa 🌌
Observed by Matt Campbell in Jeeralang Junction, Victoria, during the #GSB2024 this remarkable migrator travels to the Australian Alps each summer to escape the heat, now Endangered due to drought and climate change. 🌿
#GSB2025 #CitizenScience #Biodiversity
Observed by Matt Campbell in Jeeralang Junction, Victoria, during the #GSB2024 this remarkable migrator travels to the Australian Alps each summer to escape the heat, now Endangered due to drought and climate change. 🌿
#GSB2025 #CitizenScience #Biodiversity
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You may know Skye Cusack as the mastermind behind Magabala's incredible social media channels, but today we are thrilled to announce that she is becoming a Magabala creator, as Magabala has acquired Skye's debut novel.
Read the full announcement here: bit.ly/48bZ1GS
Read the full announcement here: bit.ly/48bZ1GS
October 2, 2025 at 2:03 AM
You may know Skye Cusack as the mastermind behind Magabala's incredible social media channels, but today we are thrilled to announce that she is becoming a Magabala creator, as Magabala has acquired Skye's debut novel.
Read the full announcement here: bit.ly/48bZ1GS
Read the full announcement here: bit.ly/48bZ1GS
“It had turned into a nice spring morning: bright and warm on the sunny side of the street, but in the shade there was a head cold waiting for anyone who thought it was an early summer and went out hatless.”
Leonard and Hungry Paul - Rónán Hession.
I’ve waited far too long to read this gem.
Leonard and Hungry Paul - Rónán Hession.
I’ve waited far too long to read this gem.
October 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
“It had turned into a nice spring morning: bright and warm on the sunny side of the street, but in the shade there was a head cold waiting for anyone who thought it was an early summer and went out hatless.”
Leonard and Hungry Paul - Rónán Hession.
I’ve waited far too long to read this gem.
Leonard and Hungry Paul - Rónán Hession.
I’ve waited far too long to read this gem.
Apologies for the image being a little shaky. This is one of a pair of Striated Pardalotes which are nesting in the water well of a hanging basket on the outside of our verandah.
September 30, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Apologies for the image being a little shaky. This is one of a pair of Striated Pardalotes which are nesting in the water well of a hanging basket on the outside of our verandah.
Is anyone else having trouble with Bluesky loading? It’s barely functioning for me.
September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Is anyone else having trouble with Bluesky loading? It’s barely functioning for me.
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This year Radio National is running a poll asking people to vote for their top books of the 21st century. Let's get some Blak books on this list! Voting closes at 5pm on October 2, 2025. The countdown will be broadcast on Radio National over the weekend of October 18-19.
Vote here: ab.co/3KxAXEh
Vote here: ab.co/3KxAXEh
September 22, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This year Radio National is running a poll asking people to vote for their top books of the 21st century. Let's get some Blak books on this list! Voting closes at 5pm on October 2, 2025. The countdown will be broadcast on Radio National over the weekend of October 18-19.
Vote here: ab.co/3KxAXEh
Vote here: ab.co/3KxAXEh
