Nella Dan departing from Hobart. Painted by the Author.

Somewhere off Greenland on Queen Mary 2

Keep on Cruisin' with Vodka in a Vegemite Jar

On Final Approach to Vostok (1983) - so exciting

The author waits at Vostok Arrivals and Departures Lounge

Vostok still the coldest place on earth (-89.2 deg C): 2025 Guinness Book of Records.

That's me at GM13 - where the Australian southern traverse line meets the Soviet Mirny-Dome C traverse line

The Kharkovchanka at full speed

Mechanical repairs in the minus 40's

Help. Airdrop please.

Fxxx it's cold

This is what I meant at bottom of p165

Departure from Mirny described on p198

The West Australian 23 April 1984.

State Library of Queensland 'LibraryShop'

Diagon Alley @ Harry Potter World Tokyo

A reader in Victoria

Ice Coffee Podcaster

Have Book. Will Travel.

First Stop.

Good reading for air travellers (Osaka Japan)

1977 Yeah, I'm good thanks Phil (Law)

Suitable for babysitters (PG)

South America, here I come!

That's what I'm talkin' about

V in a VJ, available at Yarra Plenty Regional library

Himself in New Norfolk Tasmania with Black Swan Bookshop owner Alex Okenyo.

Volunteering at Tasmania Museum 'Through Our Eyes' exhibit - part of 2024 Antarctic Festival

Vodka in a Vegemite Jar still front and centre at Black Swan Bookshop

At Fullers Bookshop, Hobart.

Antarctic Festival Hobart 2024

Sunnybank View Club

I'm enjoying the opportunity to speak at Men's Shed's (plus Probus and View) in the greater Brisbane area.

Thank you Ashgrove Mens Shed for the bottle of red

Waiting to address 80 members of Brisbane Probus at United Service Club in Wickham Tce.

ANARE Club Mid Winter Dinner 2025

The guest speaker

Past colleagues L-R: David Etheridge, Me, Gerald Love, Tim Medhurst, Ian Goodwin.

Great food at Tattersalls Club (Mid Winter Dinner 2025)

Enlightening.

I've still got it!

Kerry absorbing details of the History of the ANARE Club 1951-2001

Celebrations all round at Mt Gravatt Pacific Probus Club

U3A Brisbane

Hamilton Rotary at Royal Queensland Golf Club

Chatsworth Carindale Probus. My largest audience to date.

I'' be back!!

Postcard sized watercolours now available at speaker presentations

Eumundi (near Noosa) popular with tourists. One book went to NZ, another to Sweden.

New Merchandise

First presentation using Powerpoint

Book Talk's do not always go smoothly. On this occasion the venue changed to on the morning of my talk. With no projector and screen available I entertained 85 ladies with voice alone.

Aurora Spring 2025 featured ANARE QLD midwinter dinner and guest speaker/author of Vodka in a Vegemite Jar.

Young at Heart Seniors - Bulimba

South Pole or Bust. Painted by the author. For sale $200 plus postage.

Now stocked by Berkelouw (Australia's oldest bookshop chain) Eumundi.

Vodka in a Vegemite Jar is popular with Brisbane VIEW (Voice, Interests and Education of Women) clubs - as advertised in the September 2025 issue of 'Your Time Magazine' for Seniors