I knew what it was like to play on the ground featured in this film. Mt Evelyn was the Ground on which I first kicked my STAB PUNT in the field of play in 1949.
The Mount Evelyn Football Ground is where in 1949, at fifteen years of age, five foot two inches tall and weighing just over eight stone, I started playing open age First Eighteen Football. I won the Second Best and Fairest Trophy for the Second Eighteen with just the first three games of the football season. The rest of the season I played in the First Eighteen, winning the Umpires Vote as best player for Mount Evelyn on three occasions. It was as a fifteen-year-old school kid that I invented my STAB PUNT so I could kick the ball in all and any conditions on the uneven and often very muddy Mount Evelyn football ground. “Valentine’s Day” was made many years after my one year of playing for Mount Evelyn. When I played at Mt Evelyn there was a small tin shed as changing rooms and a cold tap to wash the mud off at the end of the game. About half way through the 1949 football season my family moved from very primitive conditions of candle and kero lamp lighting and no services of any sort. We walked two and a half miles to and from the football ground and four miles to school at Lilydale. We had to go outside the house; such as it was, to obtain water from the tank. It was in these conditions that I perfected my Stab Punt. Half way through the football season my family moved from renting where we lived, two to four miles from any” Town”, to renting the bottom story of a mansion at Brighton Beach with a tennis court, billiard room and a telephone. What a difference. I continued to attend the Lilydale Higher Elementary School. I also kept on playing football in the Mt Evelyn First Eighteen. That’s right traveling by tram to St Kilda, train to the city; train to Croydon, picked up by taxi to the Mount Evelyn football ground, then if it was an away game bus to Marysville, Warburton, Healesville, Wandin, Milgrove, Yarra Junction, Poweltown. My elder brother Charlie was also playing with Mount Evelyn so there was always the two of us traveling together. Somewhere to sleep Saturday night, one way or another, was always found. Sunday was training coaching time so Charlie and I did not get home to Brighton until late afternoon on Sunday. The next year I played as first rover for the Ringwood Football Club in the Eastern Suburban Football League under Captain and Playing Coach, Brownlow Medalist Herb Matthews. I won the Bowling Average for the Ringwood First Eleven Cricket team. In 1950 I also won School First Eighteen Football colors at Melbourne High School. I also played for the School cricket team. That takes me through to sixteen years of age. See Mount Evelyn Football Club web sight under “Jim Johnson Stab Punt” for further info including a video interview with the President of the Mount Evelyn Football Club.

I’ve just received notification of the above post on this topic, so popped in.

The email*?

“LivingSocial recently experienced a security breach on our computer systems that resulted in unauthorised access to some customer data from our servers. We are actively working with the authorities to investigate this issue.
The information accessed includes names, email addresses, the date of birth of some users, and encrypted passwords; technically ‘hashed’ and ‘salted’ passwords. We never store passwords in plain text.
Two things you should know:
The database that stores customer credit card information was not affected or accessed. ”

(The second thing referred to social media which I don’t use).

How nice to know that personal details were accessed, but credit card information was not…..

I’m sure there are bargains to be had, but this type of deal offer became a feeding frenzy with some companies/hospitality overwhelmed with takers, denying the offer or reducing what was promised.

I backed slowly away, particularly after being harassed by another dealco on these ‘offers’.
For me it isn’t worth the aggressive marketing, and personally I’m not interested in deals brokerage sites either.

How are you finding the Living Social, Adelaide daily deals or in fact the
Daily Deals in general since your original post…. do you still use them?

Certainly still popular but Getting a dozen emails a day has its problems
that has enabled Deal Aggregator sites to be more popular…

Like http://dealslifestyle.com.au where you get ONE email with All the deals from
Adelaide from Living Social, Cudo, Sprees and al the others…
Categories help break it up a but as does the search facility.