A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Is that a Russian on that yacht? The Derwent, as seen from Alexandra Battery, Sandy Bay. January 2012.

Tuesday Q and A and I am already back at work after losing my week's break to the flue.

BAH!

This week it is The Battle of the Memes

1. When you buy a greetings card are the words or the picture more important to you?
I don't buy 'em!

2. Do you ever make gifts for people, if so what, or do you buy them?
I have been known to both make and buy gifts for people.

3. Are you going on holiday this year? If so, where?
We are headed to the Tasmanian Rivera, the sunny north-west coast!

4. What was the best party you've ever been to?
I have never been much of a party-person. Anything relaxed and laid back is more my scene.

5. If you are married, describe your wedding. If not, what would your ideal wedding be like?
Our wedding was nigh on THREE THOUSAND kilometres from home, with nobody else about to bother us. I'd say that's pretty ideal...

6. What's the most romantic thing that's ever been said to you?
Something about wanting to make babies.

7. What's your favourite romantic song?
Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On.

8. Favourite heartbreak song?
Wilco's She's A Jar.

9. Which celebrity would you like a dream date with?
Christ almighty, another 'date'! I don't know. I don't think much about celebrities.

10. Which female celebrity do you find beautiful?
Juliette Binoche.

11. Which male celebrity do you think is attractive?
Friedrich Engels.

12. Describe the kind of underwear you normally wear.
Boxer briefs.

13. If you could be in a television sit-com, which would you choose?
Louie. I should fit right in!

14. Which character would you like to be?
I'd be me!

15. What are your favorite boy and girl names?
Henry/ Ezra (tie) and ummm, Audrey.

16. What's your supermarket of choice?
We've been using Coles for a while now.

17. What is your best character trait?
My intestinal fortitude.

18. What is your worst habit?
Stubbornness.

19. Elaborate on your default icon.
Huh?

20. What is your current relationship status?
Happily married.

21. Ever have a near death experience?
Not that I am aware of.

22. Name an obvious quality about you?
I am not certain that I would be the person to ask. Maybe "playful".

23. What’s the name of a song stuck in your head right now?
Rather clichéd to say Adele's Rolling in the Deep.

24. Name a celebrity you would marry.
A wealthy, stupid one.

25. Do you like pain?
That's an absurdly stupid question. I tolerate pain, but no, I don't 'like' it.

Lost inside an adorable illusion and I cannot hide, I'm the one you're using, please don't push me aside, we could've made it cruising, yeah.

Yes it is Theme Thusday again, and today we are talking GLASS . I've three possible hooks to hang my [glass] hat on with this theme. First, the photo! Yes, it is the river again from an odd angle in an interesting light. You can just make out the bottom, which should tell you that I'm right on the shore. In some ways, the distortion of the stones below the surface reminds me of ye olde glass windows, what they call "cylinder blown sheet glass". You can still find some of this around Hobart these days. Thw second link comes from a trip I took to Venice a few years back. You're probably aware that Venice was (is?) a glass-making centre of excellence. If you have ever been there and taken the tour of the glass factories, you might be familiar with the sheer amount of coloured glass that sits at the bottom of the water there. These fragments of glass have been worn down and had their edges dulled by their time in the water, which makes them ample keepsakes for the ...

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. ...

Happy anniversary baby, got you on my mind

No it is not a webcam, but this photograph was taken a mere forty-five ago on my way in to work. Here you can see a good old fashioned Hobart autumn morning, with the rain pelting down and me getting drenched. This one was taken on the corner of Macquarie and Elizabeth, while I was waiting for the lights to change. Come on Ampelmännchen ! Today is my wedding anniversary, an apparently I need to be showering Jen with leather -related goodies. Va-va-vaVOOM! To you Jennifer, here is a poem I wrote this very morning. Anniversary I love you i love you iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou I LOVE you I love YOU iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou I LOVE YOU iloveyouiloveyouiloveyou Happy anniversary

This will hurt me...

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