Ian passed away peacefully on Friday the 15th of June.
With your help we will keep this website alive. Ian had hoped that his large family might wish to grow the website . If anyone would like to contribute anything, please feel free to contact me. My children, for example, are planning an additional page with lots of content which we will link into the site. If any other kids would like to have a crack at creating their own webpage, feel free to design one or contact me for help. The topic of your webpage, in keeping with Ian's wishes, can contain anything of interest!
Click Here to download a copy of "Pops Video"
- the movie that was shown during the Celebration of Life Service
(8MB WMV Format).
Click
Here to download an MP3 audio
recording of the Celebration of Life Service
(18MB).
18 July
2007
michaelpilley@optusnet.com.au
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This is the story of my life, recorded and archived here to help me, my family, my friends and my acquaintances to see how we fit together as a large, beautiful family and community.
The
story will evolve as we go along and as you suggest. But my wish is that
it will best reflect those pieces of your lives, which you are happy to
share with me on these pages. Thank you for your love, support, time and
cuddles. I feel that they are all mine to keep and to share with the affection
and love in which you gave them. Memories are made of these things.....
Below are some of the fascinating and wonderous people, places, times
and memories in my life. It has been hard to think of a way to classify
my family, so I have made a page with my past families back into history
and then things separately about my children, step children, grand children
and step grandchildren. It might change as it evolves, we shall see. Strangely
there is also evolving a page of motor cycle riders which I had never,
ever expected existed in my close relationships. See what happens whe
you put things under the Sherlock Holmes magnifying glass!
Angela
and Dane married on their back home terrace.
Trish
and I, much younger still
Kristel
and friends at her engagement party
Peter
and Amelia married in their back garden. We had a big downpour of rain
on their wedding day, so no-one minded bing a bit wet.
Emma
with dear old Gretel
Col,
Fay, Pat and Teeshia at Teeshia and David's post Christmas Party
My
Darwin neice, Sophie, with her pet too.
The
beautiful Hawk scultpure that guards the entrance to Melbourne's Docklands
area.
The
entrance to Butterfly Gully on a frosty morning.
Peter
with his beautiful non-prizewinning Red Rooster. He's a lovely bird with
stunning bright chestnut orange neck hackles. A credit to his breeder and
keepers. 
Alan
with his grand champion bird of the Royal Melbourne Show, 2005.
Coral
and Norm stand at the Monument to Scott's visit to the Antarctica. A stunning
record of his visit in what looks like a massive cast steel sculpture
Clem, Stephen, Georgia and Gabbie enjoying yum Italian cakes.
My
Sisters and Brother with mum at Val's 60th. 
Mum
with Col on their recent visit.
Friend, Pat, with her new trendy "fast escape" nickers.
Great friend, Rob, in the sun of our "Tuscan Garden".
My brother, Robert, and I with mum and dad - we look 2 and 3 ish don't we?
As you can see, I am having a bit of trouble fitting the whole world into the pictures and stories on these pages. More will be added as they fit and link pages will tell things with more story and style. Well, they'll try to. Noth much content there yet, so send me some photos and stories to add.
I have not put up my email address here, as you all already know it, and it stops lots of spam from arriving. I have not also put anything more than any person's first name, just to keep individual privacy to the highest level. However, if you would like to add some useful comment, or have something helpful to contribute, drop me a line to i_mullins@hotmail.com. I check this mailbox out from time to time. By semi-popular request, new pages called Recipes, Younger me, have been added. Please visit them and see what you can contribute.
Ian. 10/4/07
Last Updated (by Ian!) Monday,May 21, 2007. I try to update several pages each third day at least. Getting a little tired each day, but still getting there. So thanks for your patience.
Last Updated Wednesday, July 18, 2007. If anyone would like to assist me in administering this site - please contact me at michaelpilley@optusnet.com.au .