In his retirement he has been a regular contributor of articles to Digger, the magazine of the Family and Friends of the First AIF organisation, and has visited Merris six times with his wife Denise. He was the proofreader and copyeditor of Graham Lupp’s Building Bathurst, the people who built Bathurst and the Central West 1815 – 1915, an official Bathurst Regional Council 1815 – 2015 Bicentenary publication.