{"id":72,"date":"2018-04-11T15:49:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T04:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reunion08.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/?p=72"},"modified":"2018-04-11T15:49:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-11T04:49:51","slug":"peter-ellerman-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reunion08.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/2018\/04\/11\/peter-ellerman-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Ellerman (2018)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boarder 1963-68, Jones House. Allegedly suspended for drinking in 1968, but I deny all knowledge.<\/p>\n

Attended ANU 1969-72, scraped through a B. Ec. with majors in bar studies and billiards. 1972-82 worked in various Government Departments in Canberra, gaining less and less satisfaction as I climbed the ladder. At the same time, I started to appreciate the natural world, and plants in particular. In 1983 I resigned from the public service and started a course in horticulture. I was a day student and house husband for a year and after that began work in a local garden centre while studying at night. Completed the course in 1985 with results the inverse of those achieved at Uni.<\/p>\n

In 1987 I was appointed Horticultural Manager at Cockington Green Gardens, a privately-owned tourist attraction in Canberra, and I spent 22 wonderful years there maintaining and developing the gardens. In 2001 I was awarded a Churchill Fellowship and travelled for 8 weeks through 6 countries in the northern hemisphere to further my horticultural knowledge.<\/p>\n

From 2010 to 2014 I was a self-employed gardener and landscaper, and then retired.<\/p>\n

Married to Kathy since 1974, children Michael and Angela, two grand-daughters.<\/p>\n

Volunteer with Canberra Legacy since 1994 with involvement in welfare and fund raising.<\/p>\n

Interests: Travel (to anywhere), trekking in high places, the outback, national parks, gardens, photography, the environment.<\/p>\n

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Boarder 1963-68, Jones House. Allegedly suspended for drinking in 1968, but I deny all knowledge. Attended ANU 1969-72, scraped through a B. Ec. with majors in bar studies and billiards. 1972-82 worked in various Government Departments in Canberra, gaining less and less satisfaction as I climbed the ladder. At the same time, I started to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunion08.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunion08.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunion08.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunion08.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunion08.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reunion08.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/reunion08.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reunion08.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunion08.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reunion08.ellerman.id.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}