Trunk calls were very expensive for me

I was at boarding school in Melbourne and telephone calls to my parents in Ardmona quickly used up all my coins.
To make a trunk line call from a public telephone, instead of ringing 011, the normal trunk line number, we had to dial 0176 where the operator would ask us to insert coins and press button A before connecting the call. Dialling 011 from a public phone only gave a wrong number tone.
So I wondered what would happen if I dialled 78 to get Frankston exchange and then dialled 011.
I tried it and got the trunk line operator. I gave her the phone number of the telephone box.
She told me that I was ringing from the wrong area and that I had to ring from the Melbourne exchange.
I had found out the phone number of the telephone box by making a key to open the mechanism and looking at the record card in there.
I later thought of ringing 78 3 011 to get Melbourne exchange via Frankston exchange. It worked! I gave the operator the phone number that I wanted to call and the phone number of the phone box I was calling from.
Some months later I was asked to go to the headmaster's office. I didn't know what for until I went in and the headmaster introduced me to two detectives and an engineer from the Postmaster General's department. They kept asking me who I had found out from how to make the free telephone calls. They just didn't believe me even though the headmaster did. Eventually after what seemed a very long time I was allowed to go.
Apparently one of the other schoolboys was caught making a 15 minute phone call to Sydney. He hung up the phone when the operator came on the line but the operator got his details from the other person on the call.
I also heard that one of those people from the PMG asked the headmaster what they should do about me and he told them that they should give me a scholarship.
The other boys had to pay for their calls as they all used the one public phone for all their calls. However as I always made my calls from different public telephones, there were no records of my calls.
Within a day, dialling 783011 resulted in a wrong number tone instead of a call to  the trunk line operator.

Back again after several years away.

On 25 July 2019 I returned to Australia after being away in New Zealand for three years.
I miss the teams that I was part of. So many great people. Blanca, Terry, Matt, Chloe, Philip, Anne, John, Don, David, Ramon, Astrid, Bruce, Gaylene, Vahid, Craig, Mike, Nick, Steve, Yvonne, Sophie, Marion, Diago, Kylie, Yure, Ricky, Dawn, Tristian and many others.
For me it is time to move on.
My family and friends missed me while I was away, and my career plans were on hold for the three years. Yet those three years have freed me from the rut that I was in before I went to New Zealand.
Now I have Janet, Dave, Simone, Kay, Marg, Josh, Ben, Chris, Trevor, John, Ray, Graeme, Rene, Josephine and many more who I am yet to reconnect with.
My plan is be a professional life coach and I have already started paying for my training. Meanwhile I am still doing some electronics work. I also helped Chris move a roomfull of stuff into another room full of stuff, completing it approximately on time. Over three days of fairly intense work for both of us! It was a lot of stuff.
Over the past few years I have neglected my websites and they got taken down because they had a virus. I have started again from scratch with www.peterpullar.com on a new web hosting plan.
As I work through the territory that is unfamiliar to me (FTP, email settings, downloading and uploading) I use up a lot of my time with what seems like little progress until something actually works. I feel so grateful for the assistance given to me by technical support. It saves me so much time and gets results for me very quickly.
I am glad that most of that setting up work has now been done and I can write and post here, on my website and on social media. As I do that I am increasing the amount of my own written material that I will be using in other publications.

Places I have lived in the past.

Until I was about 6 years old, I lived in Shepparton, in Central Victoria, Australia.
I then moved to Ardmona, a nearby country district on the orchard where my father worked.
I was sent to boarding school, initially in Geelong.
After 3 years I was told to leave there because I was not a well enough behaved student.
I then went to a boarding school in Melbourne.
Since leaving school, I have mainly lived in shared accommodation.
In 1973 I purchased an old double fronted weatherboard house in Richmond, an inner Melbourne suburb.
It cost $14000, and I paid $7000 deposit. the balance was on 7.5% vendor terms.
I rented out most to the rooms of the house, enjoyed having a variety of people living there, and the rent helped me to pay more of the mortgage.
I went on the Jesus Christ Superstar Concert tour, working as a sound maintenance technician.
In Adelaide, just before opening night I was working very long hours getting the sound system ready.
In order to save the time it would take traveling to and from the motel, and allow me a little more time for much needed sleep, I slept at the venue.
After the concert tour, Jesus Christ Superstar played at the Capitol Theatre in Sydney.
Sometimes I lived in the theatre in Sydney. Other times I lived in a room in shared accommodation.
One time I lived with other members of the Superstar crew and slept behind the couch in the lounge in an old three storey terrace in Surry Hills.
I wanted to live as cheaply as possible so I could quickly finish paying off the house I had in Melbourne.
I always had somewhere to live.
Back in Melbourne, I enjoyed again living in my own home with other people.
Eventually I had a partner and shared the house only with her.

When my daughter was born, my partner and I decided to rent a unit as it was difficult living with a new baby in a partly renovated house.
I eventually sold the house that I owned and purchased a brand new house in Seaford, a bay side suburb.
However the house was a long way from the beach, and the amount of time traveling to work near the city was too much for me. The style of the house was not satisfying for me. It was a brick veneer house and there were no trees on the property./
I sold that house. We lived in an old weatherboard house in East Hawthorn, a fairly new unit in Blackburn, and then an older unit in Blackburn.
When our daughter was older, I again lived in shared accommodation, sub-letting spare rooms.
I have more recently found a room in shared accommodation at various places where I have lived.

Empowering men to embrace a woman's full emotional expression

I see so many men having difficulty with a woman's emotional expression.
I have attended men's groups, and some men have colluded with others in criticizing woman's behaviour.
I would prefer to see men's groups where men support each other in being courageous and emotionally strong enough to be there fully present for their women, especially when their emotional support is most needed. By doing this, they can create more satisfying enjoyable relationships, and healthier environments for children to grow up in.
I am beginning to create a community project where both men and women make the commitment to support men fearlessly embracing women's full emotional expression.
I am looking for people who want to be part of the team to develop and run this program. I need to choose a domain name for the main website and to network providers of resources and material to be linked from it. I envision people who are committed to having men embracing women's full emotional expression being proud to wear the QR code that leads people to a website www.0z1.org which displays clearly on mobile phone web browswers, and leads people to the possibility of this project. (I wanted a short domain name so the QR code will be small.)

World Internet Summit

I attended all sessions of the four days of the World Internet Summit in Melbourne. I went there to get tips for getting traffic to my websites. Each of the presenters sold powerful tools for profiting from the internet. I was amazed by how extremely powerful most of these tools are. Yet for me right now, I see what Rich Waterman spoke about to be the first step for me. Mindset, working as a team, having a coach, having a mentor, accountability partners and outsourcing. The power of working as a team rather than doing it alone.

I have left my telemarketing job

As I have not achieved the minimum acceptable performance standards as a telemarketer in this job, I am no longer employed there.
I happily thanked my team leader for training, coaching and encouraging me when I was there. I also thanked him and the company for having given me that great training and experience in talking with people and having them take action.
I look forward to now spend more of my time and energy applying what I have learned in my own counselling and coaching business.

I am back in Kew again

Back in the same room on the top floor at the back of 244 High Street. I was cramped in Richmond and I now have plenty of space.
I no longer have the fridge - I can use the one in the kitchen however I do now have a wired internet connection which is much more reliable than the wireless one I had last time.
My address again matches the address on my business cards and I love the view over the park that I see through the window.