Harold Taylor, retired teacher and volunteer at Mont De Lancey Historic Homestead
What is something people don’t know about you?
Most people don’t know that I lived and worked in Papua New Guinea and that I was a guide at Healesville Sanctuary for a few years.
What has been your most memorable moment?
Well, my wife Barbara and I have just celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary.
What would your final meal be?
A meal of lamb shanks.
What event, past, present or in the future, would you like to witness?
I would like to have been at the signing of the Armistice in World War One, and World War Two, and in my weaker moments another one would be seeing Collingwood win the premiership.
What is your favourite television show?
I am thoroughly enjoying Endeavour and Vera. Also, Call the Midwife which comes from my love of history. Seeing the actual living conditions … we’re so fortunate to live in our society today.
What is your greatest achievement?
Being part of helping people understand some purpose in life, particularly those from different cultural and spiritual backgrounds.
What is your favourite book?
One favourite is hard to say. I find books on the New Testatment and Old Testatment and faith practices interest me -books around those areas.
What six guests, dead or alive, would you invite to a dinner party?
With all the things going on in the world I would like to have Angela Merkel, Theresa May and Donald Trump at the table and at that meal also people from Papua New Guinea and Central Australia to bring their cultural food and share it with us.
What was your first or best film?
It was probably The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) staring Gary Cooper.
What are you working on right now?
I’m interested in patterns of people getting together. I’m not working on a particular topic right now, just roaming around three or four of them at the moment.
