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The future is not what is coming at us, but what we are headed for.

Late afternoon, just finished the gardening, time to kick back with a cold drink and a muse on vital metaphysical conundrums: "Why [indeed] don't we do it in the road?"

In my heart, I think a woman has two choices: either she's a feminist or a masochist.

Here we have a lady ostrich from ZooDoo checking out the scene. Like many of our feathered friends , the lady ostriches are a dull shade of brown; as opposed to the striking black and white of their male partners. This lady ostrich was particularly taken by one Ezra L.F.M. Esq. Who can blame her for that, I ask?

The dumbest people I know are those who know it all.

Sometimes - usually when he is cranky - he wants a cuddle even when he doesn't want a cuddle...

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Mother Nature is trying her level best to claim back this very small patch of land down by the docks. I wonder if the council have fully considered the security implications of their manhole ?

We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!

Some people say that it's the dimples that make the smile. Personally, I reckon that it's the eyes .

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

A Theme Thursday topic that a man can really embrace: CLIMATE CHANGE ! All winter down here at the arse end of the world [Trademark former Australian PM P.J. Keating ] it's been rain , snow , sleet , grey skies , runny noses , grumpy kids , cranky wives and tired husbands . So, if you don’t mind sir, I’d quite fancy a spot of CLIMATE CHANGE thankyouverymuch! I am sure that the fellow holed up on this little yacht in the centre of the Derwent this morning would agree. Indeed, if the sea levels rise, he’ll be set. And if we’re jabbering on about CLIMATE CHANGE, let me get a quick word in about my two very favourite periods of it: the Medieval Warm Period (AD 800–1300) that saw the Vikings get out and about raping, pillaging and composing heavy metal rock songs. Of course, how can you talk about that without mentioning the Little Ice Age (on and off from AD 1500ish–1850ish)? Personally, I blame the Little Ice Age for the poor state of cricket in the Enlightenment period (amongst

Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.

Here is Henry with his new best mate, Diane the koala. Contrary to nonsense spouted by idiots popular belief, koalas are not bears. Rather, they are are thickset arboreal marsupial herbivores that are native to Australia. You'd be amazed at how many people don't know that.

In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.

Here is that rogue gang of emus at ZooDoo that Henry didn't like. The key problem with the emu is not ill will, a nasty disposition or anything of the sort. No, the problem with the emu is that, well, they're stupid. Imagine, if you will, something with the brains of a chicken, but is two metres tall, can run faster than Usain Bolt, and is pretty much always hungry. Now imagine that you are one metre high, you're pacey for your size but have limited leg speed, and you're holding a big bag full of emu food. Now you might be beginning to understand Henry's distaste for the emu...

A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did?' Don't do that.

Go on, tell me what he's thinking...

A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.

Another day, another photo taken from below on of the corners of the Hydro building. Forgive my indulgence in such shots, after endless grey skies, that expanse of blue is a sight for sore eyes!

If economists wished to study a horse, they wouldn´t go and look at one. They´d sit and say to themselves, "what would I do if I were a horse?"

Henry here is taking a break from helping out with the gardening to get some practice in on his horse-riding. All we need is a saddle. And a horse. And some jodhpurs. And a whip. Hang on a tic, I don't even like horses. They're too gamey.

With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.

1: They are not brown , rather a distinctive black and white 2: They don't spin. 3: They do slobber and sound like the Devil himself . 4: They stink when stressed. 5: They prefer eating dead stuff that they've found rather than the hard yakka of finding it themselves. 6: The first Tasmanian settlers ate Tasmanian Devil, which they described as tasting like veal . Given their protected status, I doubt anyone is out there gobbling them up now. This particular Tassie Devil was Henry and Ezra's favourite of the mob of them at ZooDoo last Friday.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvellous.

Teamwork . It is a beautiful thing in action.

To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.

A noose in the Yarra? No, it's a loose mooring rope in the muddy Derwent. The heavy rains that we've had of late has meant that a lot of topsoil gets washed into the river. It doesn't seem to alter the colour out in the middle of the river (it's too deep), but in the bays and docks, it goes a nice shade of brown. The tourists hate it. Time for the Sunday Top Five! Today though, we have a record FOUR top fives! MY Top Five Animals from ZooDoo: 5: the camels; 4: the Tasmanian Devils; 3: the wallaby (with joey); 2: the koala; 1: the Bengal Tiger. JEN'S Top Five Animals From ZooDoo: 5: the koala; 4: the piglets; 3: the baby alpaca; 2: the camels; 1: the wallaby (with joey). HENRY'S Top Five Animals from ZooDoo: 5: the Bengal Tiger; 4: the koala; 3: the merino sheep; 2: the wallaby (with joey); 1: the Brown Capuchin monkeys. EZRA'S Top Five Animals from ZooDoo: 5: the marmosets; 4: the Red-winged Parrots; 3: the koala; 2: the baby alpaca; 1: the rabbits. There we