There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

Scooter proves a winner. Home, Geilston Bay. December 25, 2010.

Thank God that Christmas is nearly over again. I mean, really, they put the bloody decorations up in town in mid-November!

We've done the presents, pancakes done, cauldron of chocolate mousse is made, the veggies are good to go, the turkey is primed and ready. All I need is better behaved kids.

Calm before the storm. Home, Geilston Bay. December 25, 2010.

Anyway, the terrible twosome got themselves a ~~wee~~ Wii. The Nintendo one, not the urine one.

Time will tell how that turns out.

What is it? Home, Geilston Bay. December 25, 2010.

Quote of the day? Child #1 finished opening the last of [literally] dozens of presents:

No more?

OH!!! [Slams fist] I NEVER GET ANYTHING!!!

Merry Christmas everyone.

Comments

Dina said…

A lucky bunch.

26 December 2010 at 05:15

MurciaDailyPhoto said…

You're right, with the title of this post. It does not happen to you that when your children open presents, you think, "and how come I did not get these gifts so fantastic when I was a child. "
Perhaps what parents do is that our children receive the gifts that we would have liked as kids, right?

26 December 2010 at 11:40

Kris McCracken said…

Dina, Jen got a very costly new Mac! She must not have been naughty...

MDP, I think that you could well be correct.

28 December 2010 at 11:49

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. ...

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

This is the moon. Have I mentioned how much I adore the zoom on my camera? It's Theme Thursday you see, and after last week's limp effort, I have been thinking about how I might redeem myself. Then I clicked on the topic and discover that it was BUTTON. We've been hearing a lot about the moon in the past couple of weeks. Apparently some fellas went up there and played golf and what-not forty-odd years ago. The desire to get to the moon, however, was not simply about enhancing opportunities for Meg and Mog titles and skirting local planning by-laws in the construction of new and innovative golf courses. No, all of your Sputniks , "One small steps" and freeze dried ice cream was about one thing , and one thing only : MAD Now, I don't mean mad in terms of "bloke breaks record for number of scorpions he can get up his bum", no I mean MAD as in Mutual assured destruction . When I was a young man you see, there was a lot of talk about the type of m...

Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it...

I still have the robot on the job. Here you can see the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery . And here is a poem: Soliloquy for One Dead Bruce Dawe Ah, no, Joe, you never knew the whole of it, the whistling which is only the wind in the chimney's smoking belly, the footsteps on the muddy path that are always somebody else's. I think of your limbs down there, softly becoming mineral, the life of grasses, and the old love of you thrusts the tears up into my eyes, with the family aware and looking everywhere else. Sometimes when summer is over the land, when the heat quickens the deaf timbers, and birds are thick in the plumbs again, my heart sickens, Joe, calling for the water of your voice and the gone agony of your nearness. I try hard to forget, saying: If God wills, it must be so, because of His goodness, because- but the grasshopper memory leaps in the long thicket, knowing no ease. Ah, Joe, you never knew the whole of it... I like Bruce Dawe. He just my be my favourite Austral...

This will hurt me...

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