~ Mal's Timeline ~

       
NOTE: PAGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.
This is all in 'draft' mode at the moment!

• October - conceived
• November - JFK assassinated, Dallas Texas.
  

• March - my brothers' 10th birthday.
  
• June - Beatles tour Australia - I just missed 'em!
  
• July - Mal born in Paddington's Royal Women's Hospital, Sydney NSW.
• Live in same family home at North Manly/Allambie, Sydney, until 1990!

• Rocked and swayed to my brothers' The Beatles "A Hard Days' Night" LP (amongst others).
  

• Sucked thumb until I was about 10.
• 'Edward' teddy bear goes missing, but found later by mum in a dog's mouth!
  

• July - I watched the moon landings on a large B/W TV in Infants School.
  
• August - I was 5 when Woodstock happened!
  

• Manly West Public School, Balgowlah Sydney - Kindergarted 'till Year 6.
  
• Speech pathology (I still mumble a bit if I don't concentrate).

• 2 cats, Sam and Cindy (mother and daughter).
• First 'Sherbet' LP, "Life... Is For Living".
  

• Year 6 at Manly West Primary School; brought a can of beer to school (D'oh! lol).
• Holiday to New Zealand with mum and dad.
• First record playerb came with "Howzat! LP by Sherbet.

    Near Arrowtown, New Zealand, 1976

• 1977-1982 - Balgowlah Boys' High School, Sydney.
• Sailing in Sydney Harbour every summer Saturday afternoon with my dad.
• Holiday to Central Australia with mum and dad.
  

• Wore braces on my teeth for the following two years. I had a bad overbite from sucking my thumb for too many years.
• Sailing in Sydney Harbour every summer Saturday afternoon with my dad.
• First encounter with 'The Who' in 'The Kids Are Alright' film... wagged school to go into city to see it too!
  

• School Certificate/Year 10, Balgowlah Boys' High School, Sydney.
• Rowing in the school 'eight' in the bow - we were just public school boys, who whipped the GPS boats!
  
• December 9 - I was at home that afternoon and I heard on the radio that John Lennon had been shot dead.
• Sailing in Sydney Harbour every summer Saturday afternoon with my dad.
• First 'public' musical performances with High School band.
• School lunchtime gig as bassplayer and singer with rock band.
  

• Introduced to the poetry of Robert Lowell by my High School English teacher.
• Learned to appreciate Jazz thru High School music teacher.
  

• June - left half-way-thru Year 12/HSC year of High School. I never got my HSC.
• July - 18th birthday.
• Sailing in Sydney Harbour every summer Saturday afternoon with my dad.
• Orange Datsun 120Y.
• Seaforth 'Slashers' soccer team.
  

• Casual work at a local sailmakers.
• Casual work at a local spraypainters (the place closed!)
• Sailing in Sydney Harbour every summer Saturday afternoon with my dad.
• I was too tired to watch the end of Australia II winning the Americas' Cup - dad came in and told me excitedly, and we hugged. It was like 5am or something!
• First visit to Bathurst, where a mate was at College - many a weekend spent in a blurry haze.
• Seaforth 'Slashers' soccer team.
  

• Working as a storeman/packer at Sanyo Office Machines.
  
• Extremely heavy recreational drug use during this year, sadly.
• Jamming with friends in rehearsal spaces around Brookvale.
• Sailing in Sydney Harbour every summer Saturday afternoon with my dad.
• Manly Vale 'Slashers' soccer team.
  
• My brothers' 30th birthday.
  

• Feb-June - on remand at Long Bay Jail, Sydney.
• Storeman, Asset Engineering, Balgowlah.
• July - 21st birthday.
  
• August - became a Christian.
• November - first ever live pub gig with "Party Cones", Frenchs Forest, Sydney.

    1985

• Storeman, Asset Engineering, Balgowlah
• Band "Menace" (lots of rehearsals and demo recordings but never played a gig!)
• Holiday at Mungo Brush, NSW.
• White Toyota Corolla Station-wagon.
  

• Storeman, Hanimex, Brookvale
• Madly in love with MJD (unrequited - sob!)
• Bands "Think Big" and "October" (play only a handful of gigs before I left to join 'Montage').
• Had a rehersal space in Balmain, Sydney, which was the old cool room in a loading dock of an old RSL Club!
  

• Band "Montage" - this was a good band to be in! It only lasted about a year tho, but with lots of gigs and demo recordings.
  
• Storeman, Hanimex, Brookvale
• Casual cleaning and gardening.
• Nearly drown while white-water rafting.
  
• Proposed to MJD; eventually she breaks up with me.
• Yellow Toyota Lite Ace van.

   
Montage, 1988

• Band "Surprise"
• Record "Fish!" CD in July.
• Play 'Blackstump' Festival at Appin NSW in front of c.5,000 people.
  
• Casual storeman/packer, Assett Engineering, Balgowlah (the place closed!)
• July - 25th birthday.
  
• 2nd-half of year - fling with 'SH'.
  
• Last few months - fling with SK.

• Band "Surprise"
• Record "Reformation" CD in July.
• Play 'Blackstump' Festival in Appin NSW in front of c.4,500 people.
  
• Storeman/Packer, James Music, St Leonards (bleedin' retrenched!)
• Sharing a house in North Sydney
• I felt the house move as a result of the Newcastle earthquake.
  
• Casual work at WEA Records & Radio Rentals.
• Baptised in the Sydney Harbour pool at Fairlight, with ocean swells crashing over my head!

    Surprise, 1990

• March - met M for the first time.
• Band "60's Surprise" (covers' club band) & "M.A.D." (house music project).
• M.A.D. plays 'Blackstump' Festival at Appin NSW in front of 1,000 in a huge circus tent!
• 6 gigs as stand-in bass-player with "The Toerags".
  
• Storeman/Packer, Daiwa, Brookvale.
• Sharing a flat in Manly Vale, Sydney.

    60's Surprise, 1991

• March - Married M, Bathurst NSW.
  
• Living in Manly, Sydney.
  
• Storeman/packer, Daiwa, Brookvale.
  
• Last 6 months' of the year - attempted to write a novel (about 60% completed) - M must have been very understanding, during that first year of our marriage!
  

• August - JD born by emergency caesarian section, Manly NSW.
• Living in Manly area, Sydney.
  
• Full-time Bible College, Church Army, Belrose, Sydney.
• Heavily involved in a local church
• Neighbourhood Church pastor.

    Mollymook, 1992 - this is not a wig! lol

• Full-time Bible College, Church Army, Belrose, Sydney
• Associate Diploma of Theology (Evangelism).
• Heavily involved in a local church.
• Neighbourhood Church pastor.
  
• We loose Isaac at 12 weeks.
• March - my brothers' 40th birthday.
• July - 30th birthday.

• First move to Bathurst.
  
• Manager, CMS Bookstore, Bathurst.
• M has a 'blighted ovum' (kinda like a false pregnancy).
• White Toyota Tarago van.
  

• April - dad dies, aged 66. Mum and dad had been married for 44 years.
  
• Full-time Bible College, School of Christian Studies
• Diploma of Theology (Evangelism)
• Heavily involved in a local church.
• SJ conceived 'under the stars' at Collary!
  
• November - SJ born, Bathurst.
  

• Casual work around Bathurst.
• Heavily involved in a local church.
• March -  4-month-old Sebbie in hospital with meningitis for 16 days.
• Mid year - first use of internet (?)
• November - first visit to Tahlee (GSM), Port Stephens NSW.

• Full-time at Mt Vincent Camp Centre, Ilford NSW, working for Gospel Service Ministries Inc (GSM).
• I pass a kidney stone. 30km midnight dash to hospital!
  
• Ix conceived at Mt Vincent.
• SJ had an operation on his thumbs (Carpel tunnel).
• August - JD's 5th birthday
  
• November - Ix born, Bathurst.
• December - resign from GSM.
  

• Heavily involved in a local church.
• Primary School Scripture teacher.
• Home Schooling JD.
  
• March - ministry training weekend, Sydney.
• July - 35th birthday.
  
• November - first website uploaded.
  

• Heavily involved with a local church.
• Full-time Primary School Scripture teacher.
• Home Schooling JD.
• July-August - JD in wheelchair with suspected hip problems (Perthes Disease).
  
• July - teaching week at Tamworth, NSW.
• JD and I spend a week together at Bermagui NSW doing school scripture.
• White Mitsubishi Star Wagon Van.
  

• January - family holiday in Canberra; Mal suffers severe depression attack.
• Home Schooling JD.
  
• February - start working with Children of the World/Campus Crusade for Christ.
• I'm a full-time Primary School Scripture teacher.
• Running training seminars/workshops for teachers.
  
• Running a small office in town.
• SJ starts pre-school.
• Mal speaks at Youth camp, Tumut NSW.
• April - 5th anniversary of dad's death.
• M nearly dies with pneumonia.
• Mal diagnosed and medicated for depression and begins counselling.
  
• August - M asks me to leave / separated. I end up living in a caravan in the middle of winter.
  
• Resign from Children of the World/Campus Crusade.
• Stop all church-associated work.
  
• Basically unemployed for the next year.
  
• August - first nervous breakdown.
• September - move to Tweed Heads NSW, living with different families and in a caravan.
• Ix breaks arm.
  
• Nearly drown in surf.
  
• November - SJ's 5th birthday.
• First meet and start chatting online with Raven, Sedate, Dee etc.
  
• December - return to Bathurst.
• Pass another kidney stone.
• First Xmas alone.
  

• Move into 1-bedroom flat in Bathurst.
• My brother tells me that 'he doesn't want me in his life'.
  
• January - car's engine blows up.
• M tells me "our relationship is not going to work. I'm not prepared to live the way I lived before." Rather than attempting to keep working things thru, she decides to think divorce.
• February - 2nd nervous breakdown in 6 months.
• Seeing pshycologyst.
  
• March - 10th wedding anniversary - M and I have been separated 7 months.
  
• Trouble with law and working with children.
• Eczema in scalp becomes septic; diarrhoea.
• April - SJ & Ix in hospital with influenza A.
• Take off wedding ring whilst tearfully chatting online.
  
• Rehearsing with a group of guys at a local church in a 'band'.
• Stop attending 'church' - first time in 17 years.
  
• June - TangerineStar.
• Move to Central Coast, NSW.
• Working as a fruit picker and packer.
• July - Meet 'Raven' and family in Sydney for 1st time.
• August - travel by train to Bathurst for JD's 9th birthday party.
• M receives divorce paperwork; she's already steadily seeing another man.
  
• October - Applied to University.
• Signed divorce papers.
• Weekend visit with boys.
• November-February - volunteer work with Central Coast Community Chest, Gosford, NSW.
• November - meet Sedate and a few other 'chatters' and their families in person, Gosford.
• Spend day in Bathurst for SJ's 6th birthday.
• Spend a few days in Brisbane with Raven's family. My first time in Brisbane!
• Spend weekend in Bathurst for Ix's 4th birthday.
• December - Divorce 'Decree Absolute'. 10 years and 7 months since marriage began.
• Second Xmas alone.
  

• February - SJ's first day at school - up and back to Bathurst on one day.
• Begin 1st year of Uni work.
  
• March - Move to Wyong, Central Coast, NSW.
• Ix has his tonsils out.
  
• April - buy new computer for $60.
• Dad died 7 years' ago.
  
• May - 1-year Bond over.
• Spend day with boys at mum's place. Ix says "I miss you, dad."
  
• July - move back to Bathurst.
  
• August - JD's 10th birthday.
• Folk Music Club jams.
• M allows boys to come around to play at my place for the first time.
  
• August - JD and I walk the 8km 'Edgell Jog' in Bathurst together.
• October - "Divorced Dads" meetings.
• JD breaks arm
  
• November - Ix's 5th birthday.
• Thoon's birthday.
• I'm back on the antidepressant medication.
  

• 2nd year of Uni.
  
• My brother and I are finally reconciled.
• Spending a lot of time hanging out with him - at last!
  
• February - Ix's first day at school.
• SJ looses first tooth.
  
• March - my brothers' 50th birthday.
• Depression creeping up on me again.
  
• May - M engaged.
  
• July - my 40th birthday.
  
• August - mum turns 75.