I have seen three emperors in their nakedness, and the sight was not inspiring.

Juvenile Kelp Gull. Marieville Esplanade, Sandy Bay. July 2011.

I won't be late today, thanks to the twenty-fiver meme!

1. Tell us about something that made you laugh last night.

Tell ‘Em Steve Dave Overkill.

2. What were you doing at 8 pm last night?

Writing this post.

3. What were you doing 30 minutes ago?

I am guessing drinking coffee.

4. What happened to you in 2006?

Everything changed. We call him “Henry”.

5. What was the last thing you said out loud?

[*This was last night as I’m typing the post, not 8:30 am*] “Are you going to leave those pants on?”

6. How many beverages did you have today?

Knowing my habits, I will have had one glass of orange juice and one cup of coffee.

7. What colour is your hairbrush?

Alas, I don’t own one.

8. What was the last thing you paid for?

An apple.

9. Where were you last night?

At home in bed writing this post right here.

10. What colour is your front door?

A matte black glass door. It’s quite classy.

11. Where do you keep your change?

In the same place, but it is a closely guarded secret.

12. What’s the weather like today?

If the forecast is correct, it has been mostly sunny at first, becoming cloudy in the afternoon. There has been (of course) areas of fog and frost in the morning with winds developing northwesterly averaging up to 25 km/h. The low has been 1º Celsius with a projected high of 13º Celsius.

13. What’s the best ice-cream flavour?

Callipygian.

14. What excites you?

Flying rabbits.

15. Do you want to cut your hair?

Cut it myself? Not a good idea. I think that I could use a trim though…

16. Are you over the age of 35?

Not yet!

17. Do you talk a lot?

It depends on the company. I certainly have the capacity.

18. Do you watch Franklin and Bash?

I have never even heard of it.

19. Do you know anyone named Steven?

I know a few with a ‘v’, and a few with a ‘ph’

20. Do you make up your own words?

Once in a while. One has to be careful though, as there is a tendency to discombobulate the naïve.

21. Are you a jealous person?

Only if a woman is involved.

22. What does the last text message you received say?

“Ezra is in a foul mood.”

23. Where’s the next place you’re going to?

Lunch!

24. Who’s the rudest person in your life?

There is no shortage of candidates. Anyone who is particularly self-absorbed makes my shortlist.

25. Are you crushing on anyone that you shouldn't be?

No. I am a pacifist. I don’t believe in violence.

Juvenile Kelp Gull plus Silver Gull. Marieville Esplanade, Sandy Bay. July 2011.

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

There was nothing left. No reason, no conscience, no understanding; even the most rudimentary sense of life or death, good or evil, right or wrong.

Here is a self portrait. I’m calling it Portrait of a lady in a dirty window . Shocking, isn’t it? However, it is apt! Samhain , Nos Galan Gaeaf , Hop-tu-Naa , All Saints , All Hallows , Hallowmas , Hallowe'en or HALLOWEEN . It’s Theme Thursday and we’re talking about the festivals traditionally held at the end of the harvest season. Huh? No wonder Australians have trouble with the concept of HALLOWEEN. For the record, in my thirty-two L O N G years on the planet, I can’t say I’ve ever seen ghosts ‘n goblins, trick ‘n treaters or Michael Myers stalking Tasmania’s streets at the end of October. [That said, I did once see a woman as pale as a ghost turning tricks that looked like Michael Myers in late November one time.] Despite the best efforts of Hollywood, sitcoms, and innumerable companies; it seems Australians are impervious to the [ahem] charms of a corporatized variant of a celebration of the end of the "lighter half" of the year and beginning of the "darke

In dreams begin responsibilities.

A life at sea, that's for me, only I just don't have the BREAD. That's right, Theme Thursday yet again and I post a photo of a yacht dicking about in Bass Strait just off Wynyard. The problem is, I am yet again stuck at work, slogging away, because I knead need the dough . My understanding is that it is the dough that makes the BREAD. And it is the BREAD that buys the yacht. On my salary though, I will be lucky to have enough dough or BREAD for a half dozen dinner rolls. Happy Theme Thursday people, sorry for the rush.

This will hurt me...

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