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.

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. ...

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

Can you believe that it is time for Theme Thursday already? Today we are not talking chocolate , toddlers , mess or ignominy . No, today we're dealing with ANIMAL . Now I could have posted a picture of a possum, numbat, wombat, wallaby or any other furry killing machine that roams our fair isle, but I figure that I'd use a far more deadly creature as an example of an animal . Some people - I know them as fools - have chosen to embrace that highfalutin idea that human beans are for some ungodly reason superior to animals. Of course, what these imbeciles seem to forget is that were are simple animals ourselves ! Anyone with a baby, toddler, teenage boy or Queenslander in their household could tell you this. Look at Henry [above]. One chocolate frog in the back of the car on a sunny day and all of a sudden it's Elagabalus meets Bacchus for a quick shandy in the Serengeti and we're down on all fours carrying on like a cat in heat. Fair dinkum, anyone who chooses to ...

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...

This will hurt me...

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