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We hope you're faring well out there.

Another frazzled start to this week's Imaginary Friends Show....we fell like a blue arsed fly buzzing around in a bottle going nowhere fast.

Tunes and nonsensical ramblings as per usual for the first couple of hours.

At around 8:20am we had a nice chat with Wendy Berry, a Kalorama local sharing her story of the disruption to daily life when a devastating storm tore through the Dandenong Ranges on the night of the 9th and morning of the 10th June 2021.  As if the Covid19 pandemic wasn't enough and relentless wind storm left a path of destruction throughout the Dandenong Ranges.  Kalorama was one of the hardest hit towns in the mountain district and Wendy's home was one of the 200 or so that bore the brunt of the felled trees.  Wendy's house was inhabitable for 2 years while she navigated insurance claims and the eventual reconstruction of her home. 

Wendy described the night of the storm and everything that came after it with the community rallying together to support each other in the aftermath.

Wendy is also a part of Rescue Logs, an organisation that was established to salvage timber from the many mountain ash trees that came crashing down in an endeavour to see quality timber being used for furniture making and the like rather than going through the chipper and ending up as mulch.  You can find more about Rescue Logs HERE

Playlist: Track - Artist - Album

Elvis Is King - Andy Cowan - Anthology 2007

I Met Up With The King - First Aid Kit - The Big Black And The Blue

A Fling With The King - Corrina Steel - A Fling With The King

The Baffled King – Miller - In a While

Hello Sir - Kyle Tayla

Talking About The Weather - Skyscraper Stan - Golden Boy Vol.I and Vol.II

Talking At The Same Time - Tom Waits - Bad As Me

Talking To A Stranger - Hunters & Collectors - Collected Works

Talking In Your Sleep – JAZZPARTY - Talking In Your Sleep

The Talking Drum - King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic

Talkin Lion Blues - C.W. Stoneking - Jungle Blues

Talkin' Bout A Revolution - Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman

Talk To You - Magie Alley            

Talk To Me - Skyscraper Stan - Those Were Days

Silverline - Grand Baxter - Silverline

Dance - Daisy West - Bellis Perennis

Dance With Me - Madam Nightingale

Dance Dance Dance – Playlunch - Who's Ready For A Good Time?

Dance to the Music - Sly & the Family Stone - Greatest Hits [Epic]

Dance Anthem Of The 80's - Regina Spektor - Far

The People Inside My Head – Benoit - Kennedy Street

State Of Disarray - Dusken Lights

Come To My Show - Primary High - Come To My Show

The Storm - Lloyd Spiegel - Lloyd Speigel

ZENITH - Sweet Nothing - Sweet Nothing (performing live in 3MDR’s Parlour on Saturday 13th June 2026)

We hope you enjoy the program.

Cheers for the ears

Peej & Elliot