Hold me now, oh hold me now, until this hour has gone around. And I'm gone on the rising tide, to face Van Dieman's Land
Theme Thursday again, and this one is rather easy. I am Tasmanian, you see, and aside from being all around general geniuses - as I have amply described previously - we are also very familiar with the concept of WATER. Tasmania is the ONLY island state of an ISLAND continent. That means, we're surrounded by WATER. That should help explain why I take so many photographs of water . Tasmania was for a long time the place where the British (an island race terrified of water) sent their poor people most vile and horrid criminals. The sort of folk who would face the stark choice of a death sentence , or transportation to the other end of the world. Their catalogue of crimes is horrifying : stealing bread assault stealing gentlemen's handkerchiefs drunken assault being poor affray ladies being overly friendly with gentlemen for money hitting people having a drink and a laugh public drunkenness being Irish Fenian terrorist activities being Catholic religious subversion. ...
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Perhaps he helped Mum by washing his clothes in the toilet bowl???
:-P
BTW, would you consider changing your RSS feed so that the entirety of your posts are uploaded?
USelaine, if only! He did a poo in the shower the other day, and then indignantly demand that I deal with it ASAP.
Kiwi, so you’re telling me that he’s extraordinarily handsome then, are you? ;)
Z, he broke my PC, so no changes there. I have always tried to link the title to either the image or text. Sometime those linkages exist only within my head, however. It’s pretty convoluted inthere, you see.
I have put your RSS request to the board of management and expect a decision by the weekend.
April, no, but he did eat half a tube of toothpaste the other evening!
Jackie, he struggles to unwrap them, let alone get the paper back on!
Jill, he is attractive, isn’t he? ;)
Lynette, too bloody intelligent sometimes!
And stubborn. Just like his mother...