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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Hope you had a good Sunday.
Last news was 108 dead and still rising! Unbelievable! And more fires still causing concern.
After so many years of drought the whole state is a tinderbox.
The radio is full of people calling in to ask about people they are concerned about and haven't heard from...it is so sad!
Give Henry and Ezra a HUGE hug from me...and love to lovely Jen!
If he's not careful, some wiseguy might put a hit on him...
The Australian bushfires are causing too much harm these days. I wish it is over soon without more damage than already caused.
You are right in saying that it is because of humans not appreciating the nature.
In India, in Jammu and Kashmir, we have been facing freakishly-untimed snowfalls during Feb-March for the past five-six years. The resulting damage hurts more because of of indiscriminate deforestation.
It took sometime for people to realise the worth of a lush-green forests in comparison to naked hill-slopes, where mud and rocks go screaming down the slope at the first instance of disturbance.
The human loss in Australia because of the bushfires is unfortunate, though.
I hope we learn to be more responsible towards our environment.
You do hope that from these kinds of events people come out the other side having learned a thing or two.