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Post: # 1597645Post kosifantutti »

Sainternist wrote:I still haven't got around to getting a copy of Peter Lyons' biography of Darrel Baldock: The Incomparable Mr Magic.

Has anyone here read it?
It's a few years since I read it. I recall it just being a little over the top in its praise of The Doc.


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Post: # 1597683Post Gershwin »

loris wrote:Aaah Bratty, pleased I'm not going senile. I've found the other thread about St Kilda in Scotland. I just was a little jumbled about who was the original poster, what year the thread was in.
At least I was spot on about me & Gershwin having a chat about appropriate music to accompany his boat trip. It's just the You tube videos he linked to were not his trip to St Kilda. It was clip of tourists going to Fingals Cave inThe Inner Hebrides- another place he had been to. Great sound track of Mendelssohn's Overture - Fingal's Cave to accompany the video.

And the original poster of the thread was 'Yours Truly'!!! Fancy that eh?

I posted the thread on Sat 29 Dec 2012. The thread title was 'St Kilda................ here we come with Monty.'

And it had nothing to do with Joey. It was just alerting posters that the program on SBS1 about the Isle of St Kilda was being shown the following week . The presenters name was Monty Hall.

After a number of us watched the doco on St Kilda, there was a good discussion on it. Apart from the usual suspect :roll: St Kilda llooked a rather bleak, but stunning island. It's World heritage listed.

Gershwin said he was travelling there the following year. White Winmar, had attempted to get there, but the the boat was cancelled for a few days due to the wild weather. I think he valued his life & eventually decided not to do the crossing!!

Gershwin posted a link to a You tube of 'The St Kildan's Song'. Not that rousing, don't think it would push off our theme song 'Oh When The Saints.................


Can't work out how to do a link to the thread tho' Bratty. From Gershwin's link to the YouTube video on St Kilda you can See plenty of other videos on the Isle of St Kilda.......... A unique, quirky place with an interesting but at times difficult history, not a place for the feint hearted to live or visit. Just like our beloved Saints, not the run of the mill AFL team, unique, has a tendancy to take a road more difficult at times, and definitely not for feint hearted supporters.
Yes Loris it was me that went to the island of St Kilda back in 2013.
Actually the island is called Hirta and it is in the group of islands called St Kilda.
We had lovely weather which is unusual as at least half of the time trips are cancelled because the sea is too rough. The National Trust look after the islands and apparently there is a St Kilda scarf in their bunkhouse. When I moved to Scotland earlier in 2013 I didn't take over any of my many St Kilda scarfs but my wife did a great job of knitting one in the weeks before we went to St Kilda. It was a nice moment to display it and have a photo taken.
I'm still living in Scotland but will return to Australia to live in the near future.


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Post: # 1597689Post Verdun66 »

Gershwin wrote:
loris wrote:Aaah Bratty, pleased I'm not going senile. I've found the other thread about St Kilda in Scotland. I just was a little jumbled about who was the original poster, what year the thread was in.
At least I was spot on about me & Gershwin having a chat about appropriate music to accompany his boat trip. It's just the You tube videos he linked to were not his trip to St Kilda. It was clip of tourists going to Fingals Cave inThe Inner Hebrides- another place he had been to. Great sound track of Mendelssohn's Overture - Fingal's Cave to accompany the video.

And the original poster of the thread was 'Yours Truly'!!! Fancy that eh?

I posted the thread on Sat 29 Dec 2012. The thread title was 'St Kilda................ here we come with Monty.'

And it had nothing to do with Joey. It was just alerting posters that the program on SBS1 about the Isle of St Kilda was being shown the following week . The presenters name was Monty Hall.

After a number of us watched the doco on St Kilda, there was a good discussion on it. Apart from the usual suspect :roll: St Kilda llooked a rather bleak, but stunning island. It's World heritage listed.

Gershwin said he was travelling there the following year. White Winmar, had attempted to get there, but the the boat was cancelled for a few days due to the wild weather. I think he valued his life & eventually decided not to do the crossing!!

Gershwin posted a link to a You tube of 'The St Kildan's Song'. Not that rousing, don't think it would push off our theme song 'Oh When The Saints.................


Can't work out how to do a link to the thread tho' Bratty. From Gershwin's link to the YouTube video on St Kilda you can See plenty of other videos on the Isle of St Kilda.......... A unique, quirky place with an interesting but at times difficult history, not a place for the feint hearted to live or visit. Just like our beloved Saints, not the run of the mill AFL team, unique, has a tendancy to take a road more difficult at times, and definitely not for feint hearted supporters.
Yes Loris it was me that went to the island of St Kilda back in 2013.
Actually the island is called Hirta and it is in the group of islands called St Kilda.
We had lovely weather which is unusual as at least half of the time trips are cancelled because the sea is too rough. The National Trust look after the islands and apparently there is a St Kilda scarf in their bunkhouse. When I moved to Scotland earlier in 2013 I didn't take over any of my many St Kilda scarfs but my wife did a great job of knitting one in the weeks before we went to St Kilda. It was a nice moment to display it and have a photo taken.
I'm still living in Scotland but will return to Australia to live in the near future.
Coincidentally my wife and I are going on a cruise of the Hebrides in late June this year. And we go to St Kilda. Have seen many photos and TV shows about the place, so I know exactly what it looks like. Really looking forward to it. Will take a scarf! And hope for good weather.


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Post: # 1597758Post Gershwin »

Verdun66 wrote:
Gershwin wrote:
loris wrote:Aaah Bratty, pleased I'm not going senile. I've found the other thread about St Kilda in Scotland. I just was a little jumbled about who was the original poster, what year the thread was in.
At least I was spot on about me & Gershwin having a chat about appropriate music to accompany his boat trip. It's just the You tube videos he linked to were not his trip to St Kilda. It was clip of tourists going to Fingals Cave inThe Inner Hebrides- another place he had been to. Great sound track of Mendelssohn's Overture - Fingal's Cave to accompany the video.

And the original poster of the thread was 'Yours Truly'!!! Fancy that eh?

I posted the thread on Sat 29 Dec 2012. The thread title was 'St Kilda................ here we come with Monty.'

And it had nothing to do with Joey. It was just alerting posters that the program on SBS1 about the Isle of St Kilda was being shown the following week . The presenters name was Monty Hall.

After a number of us watched the doco on St Kilda, there was a good discussion on it. Apart from the usual suspect :roll: St Kilda llooked a rather bleak, but stunning island. It's World heritage listed.

Gershwin said he was travelling there the following year. White Winmar, had attempted to get there, but the the boat was cancelled for a few days due to the wild weather. I think he valued his life & eventually decided not to do the crossing!!

Gershwin posted a link to a You tube of 'The St Kildan's Song'. Not that rousing, don't think it would push off our theme song 'Oh When The Saints.................


Can't work out how to do a link to the thread tho' Bratty. From Gershwin's link to the YouTube video on St Kilda you can See plenty of other videos on the Isle of St Kilda.......... A unique, quirky place with an interesting but at times difficult history, not a place for the feint hearted to live or visit. Just like our beloved Saints, not the run of the mill AFL team, unique, has a tendancy to take a road more difficult at times, and definitely not for feint hearted supporters.
Yes Loris it was me that went to the island of St Kilda back in 2013.
Actually the island is called Hirta and it is in the group of islands called St Kilda.
We had lovely weather which is unusual as at least half of the time trips are cancelled because the sea is too rough. The National Trust look after the islands and apparently there is a St Kilda scarf in their bunkhouse. When I moved to Scotland earlier in 2013 I didn't take over any of my many St Kilda scarfs but my wife did a great job of knitting one in the weeks before we went to St Kilda. It was a nice moment to display it and have a photo taken.
I'm still living in Scotland but will return to Australia to live in the near future.
Coincidentally my wife and I are going on a cruise of the Hebrides in late June this year. And we go to St Kilda. Have seen many photos and TV shows about the place, so I know exactly what it looks like. Really looking forward to it. Will take a scarf! And hope for good weather.
That will be an awesome trip. Enjoy.


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Post: # 1597761Post Verdun66 »

Gershwin wrote:
Verdun66 wrote:
Gershwin wrote:
loris wrote:Aaah Bratty, pleased I'm not going senile. I've found the other thread about St Kilda in Scotland. I just was a little jumbled about who was the original poster, what year the thread was in.
At least I was spot on about me & Gershwin having a chat about appropriate music to accompany his boat trip. It's just the You tube videos he linked to were not his trip to St Kilda. It was clip of tourists going to Fingals Cave inThe Inner Hebrides- another place he had been to. Great sound track of Mendelssohn's Overture - Fingal's Cave to accompany the video.

And the original poster of the thread was 'Yours Truly'!!! Fancy that eh?

I posted the thread on Sat 29 Dec 2012. The thread title was 'St Kilda................ here we come with Monty.'

And it had nothing to do with Joey. It was just alerting posters that the program on SBS1 about the Isle of St Kilda was being shown the following week . The presenters name was Monty Hall.

After a number of us watched the doco on St Kilda, there was a good discussion on it. Apart from the usual suspect :roll: St Kilda llooked a rather bleak, but stunning island. It's World heritage listed.

Gershwin said he was travelling there the following year. White Winmar, had attempted to get there, but the the boat was cancelled for a few days due to the wild weather. I think he valued his life & eventually decided not to do the crossing!!

Gershwin posted a link to a You tube of 'The St Kildan's Song'. Not that rousing, don't think it would push off our theme song 'Oh When The Saints.................


Can't work out how to do a link to the thread tho' Bratty. From Gershwin's link to the YouTube video on St Kilda you can See plenty of other videos on the Isle of St Kilda.......... A unique, quirky place with an interesting but at times difficult history, not a place for the feint hearted to live or visit. Just like our beloved Saints, not the run of the mill AFL team, unique, has a tendancy to take a road more difficult at times, and definitely not for feint hearted supporters.
Yes Loris it was me that went to the island of St Kilda back in 2013.
Actually the island is called Hirta and it is in the group of islands called St Kilda.
We had lovely weather which is unusual as at least half of the time trips are cancelled because the sea is too rough. The National Trust look after the islands and apparently there is a St Kilda scarf in their bunkhouse. When I moved to Scotland earlier in 2013 I didn't take over any of my many St Kilda scarfs but my wife did a great job of knitting one in the weeks before we went to St Kilda. It was a nice moment to display it and have a photo taken.
I'm still living in Scotland but will return to Australia to live in the near future.
Coincidentally my wife and I are going on a cruise of the Hebrides in late June this year. And we go to St Kilda. Have seen many photos and TV shows about the place, so I know exactly what it looks like. Really looking forward to it. Will take a scarf! And hope for good weather.
That will be an awesome trip. Enjoy.
Cheers!


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Post: # 1597791Post mcadam05 »

always a great read the St Kilda fanzine

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Post: # 1597874Post sendmehomehappy »

Not so much a story about the club, players or the suburb,

however the namesakes of several players feature for better or worse in the novel, The Siren of Seoul.

Available for the cost of a cappuccino at the usual online purveyors.


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Post: # 1598784Post loris »

saintbrat wrote:
Other Books with saintly References
"Jack Irish" series by saints supporting Peter Temple.
Bratty............ The new Jack Irish series starts on ABC1 tonight at 8.30pm.


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Post: # 1598853Post saintbrat »

got it - but no note of anything saintly really- without letting you know the plot it is a bit removed from previous


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Post: # 1598856Post kosifantutti »

sendmehomehappy wrote:Not so much a story about the club, players or the suburb,

however the namesakes of several players feature for better or worse in the novel, The Siren of Seoul.

Available for the cost of a cappuccino at the usual online purveyors.
I downloaded the sample. Gehrig, Loewe, Hamill. Did I miss any?

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Post: # 1599133Post samuraisaint »

This guy, a friend of Ian Fleming's, was a St. Kilda supporter, and served as the inspiration of a colourful character, Dicko Henderson, in a James Bond novel, You Only Live Twice, and the James Bond movie of the same name. He was also a good mate of the writer John Le Carre who wrote The Spy Who Came In From The Cold, and who also used him as a character, Old Crawford, in his books. He was a reporter and allegedly a spy - or at least a person who knew his way around in spy circles. His son and daughter became famous musicians. When he was on This Is Your Life, before his son came out (before the guests came out they would always say something so that the person being honoured would know at once who it was, like a private joke) he said "Carna Saints!"



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Post: # 1706653Post samuraisaint »

not literature but the arts

The painting Full Back, St. Kilda by arguably Australia's greatest ever painter, Sidney Nolan, of Keith Miller.

Nolan grew up in St. Kilda.


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Post: # 1706679Post Drake Huggins »

The Hellbound Heart, by Clive Barker. Not so much about the saints, but a useful guide for saints' supporters. It is considered one of the greatest fictional works on the subject of masochism.


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Post: # 1706684Post saynta »

The ultimate saints book.

"The Point of it all."

by Jules Feldmann and Russell Holmesby.


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Post: # 1706686Post SaintPav »

mcadam05 wrote:always a great read the St Kilda fanzine

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These are great!!!

Thanks for putting these up.


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Post: # 1706697Post wolfpup »

samuraisaint wrote:not literature but the arts

The painting Full Back, St. Kilda by arguably Australia's greatest ever painter, Sidney Nolan, of Keith Miller.

Nolan grew up in St. Kilda.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footballer_(Nolan)


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Post: # 1919376Post kosifantutti »

kosifantutti wrote: Mon 25 Jan 2016 6:15pm Oval Dreams by Bruce Matthews? Is worth tracking down.

Also Saturday Afternoon Fever by Matthew Hardy.
There is now a podcast version of Saturday Afternoon Fever. Well worth a listen.


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Post: # 1919380Post asiu »

that was a great re-read

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Post: # 1919533Post mcadam05 »

Plugger - The Tony Lockett story
Cricket's unsung legend (The Jimmy Matthews Story) by James Brear( his 1907 season is mentioned)
Cazaly the Legend by Robert Allen
Football by Dave McNamara (original impossible to get , thankfully reprinted in 2014)


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kosifantutti wrote: Mon 25 Jan 2016 6:15pm Oval Dreams by Bruce Matthews? Is worth tracking down.

Also Saturday Afternoon Fever by Matthew Hardy.
These to me are the two classics.
Matthew Hardy's I've read twice -- just for the sheer pleasure of it.

To add to the list here there's also Yvette Wroby's Siren's Call. It's really her own personal memoir of 2015, but paced and interlaced throughout with the Saints' hopeful but futile season. Easily identifiable with in the way footy helps you through the Melbourne year, no matter how badly we end up doing.


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