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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Rebel without a clue?
The photograph of Henry, is great and the caption sums it all up!
Nice quote...
Thanks, for sharing!
DeeDee ;-D
This young bloke knows where he is going.
His hairstyle (or the lack of it) resembles that of Sir Paul McCartney of the Beatles fame. I'm sure Henry is headed for an equally flambuoyant and rockstar-like future... Amen.
What is Henry intending doing with Sandy Claws? I hope he wasn't threatening to break the camera.