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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A hug for him and for Henry too!!!!!
Is he really walking unaided?
You know that here in Iran we do not have much blue eyed! most of people are brown but my 2 years old cousin is blue eyed :)
Priyanka, "gublu gublu", I'll have to remember that!
Roddy, videos soon!
Sarah, I don't know where he got the blue eyes from. Not from my side anyway, we're all brown eyed...
Keep them Precious until then.
Oh poor Roddy...so long away from his darling grandsons! At least you get to see them here...as I do! My favourite time of the day, checking to see if there are any photos of H and Ez...!!! I think they are both gublu gublu too.