Adjusting the seat and side mirrors on a hire car ahead of the drive from Tullamarine to the Queenscliff Music Festival

Side 2 of the compilation album Whopper: Get Dancin’ / Shame Shame Shame / The Hustle / Up In A Puff Of Smoke / Jive Talkin’

The community library, a house-shaped wooden cabinet mounted on a post, at the Corny Point Cricket Club gate

The Doors’ ‘Light My Fire’ and its three-and-a-half-minute organ and guitar solo

Finding the chocolate and note Claire’s hidden in my lunch

Arriving in Athens’ Syntagma Square following a 57-hour journey through Melbourne, Beijing, and Istanbul

A $10 Op Shop shirt

The Barry Jarman Stand at Woodville Oval

Sunset overlooking Santorini’s caldera

Listening to David Gray’s hymnal White Ladder album on a Sunday morning

Running through Palermo’s Quattro Canti wearing my Glenelg guernsey and hearing someone yell out, ‘Go, Tigers!’

Sausage, white bread, barbeque sauce

The introduction to ABC radio’s Conversations and it being someone I’ve never heard of

Running at midday along Glenelg North esplanade through a sea fog

Peter Buck’s banjo on the REM song, ‘Electrolite’

Buying Alex his first (legal) pint in the Broady beer garden

The massive Beijing Airport billboard for Grange Hermitage

Every Easter Sunday at the Wheaty, hearing my brother-in-law’s band, Don Morrison’s Raging Thirst, play ‘Grand Junction Road’

A banana on my drive to the Christie’s Beach parkrun

The Season by Helen Garner

Thinking about Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, and St John’s Wood, ahead of our London visit this Christmas

The cowbell on Grover Washington Jr’s ‘The Two of Us’

Being in our backyard and hearing the siren from Glenelg Oval

Nearly tripping over a clump of lava during the Mt Etna parkrun

Cornflake biscuit at The Broadway Kiosk, Wednesday afternoons

Alex and Max getting me Dylan’s Blonde on Blonde as a birthday gift

Italy’s three-wheeled truck, the Piaggio Ape

Claire telling me her ‘A Whiter Shade of Pale’ story

The Rawady’s Deli mural in Kapunda

A bottle of 2006 Rockford Basket Press Shiraz for Dad’s recent birthday

The game of squash in Ian McEwan’s novel, Saturday

Vividly coloured bottles lining the wall in Athens’ Brettos bar

Feeling the bass guitar growl through the speakers during ‘Sukie in the Graveyard’ at Belle and Sebastian’s Adelaide show

Steering over the River Light just south of Kapunda and feeling nostalgic and happy that I’m home

A Carlsberg Elephant beer (7.2%) with old Kimba friends

The Sound of Muesli on 3D Radio, featuring fellow Unley Jets Footy club alumnus, Pete Wilson

The yellow and green dome of Palermo’s Church of San Giuseppe dei Padri Teatini

A clear and warm evening for Antigone at the Greek Theatre in Syracuse on Sicily

A half-time pasty from Snout’s bar at Glenelg Oval

John Doyle (Rampaging Roy Slaven) picking up Claire’s hat for her when it blew off on Balmain’s Darling Street and he had that knowing twinkle in his eye

The scene in Song Sung Blue when Mike and Claire are first rehearsing and she plays the piano line of ‘Cherry Cherry’

The warmth of the old floorboards in the front bar of Port Elliot’s Royal Family pub

Watching Claire interpret Pulp’s ‘Common People’ in front of Elder Park’s sea of people

Max completing his first three-point turn

Tim Lane opening the telecast commentary of summer’s very first session of Test cricket

Just avoiding a cobra on our Balinese scooter

Footy Almanac lunches in Geelong

During ‘Ol ’55’ by the Eagles when Don Henley and Glenn Frey harmonise on ‘Now, the sun’s coming up/ I’m riding with Lady Luck/ freeway, cars and trucks’

Drifting about in the Corny Point shallows with Claire

This December, stepping into The Coach and Horses, in London’s Soho for a Stella

The Waifs inviting their interpreter (Claire) onstage

Stumbling across a country cricket match, complete with white picket fence

An annual winter lunch with Kapunda boys in the Barossa’s finest pub, the Greenock

Grand Final week