A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.

Jen and Hen take an eye quiz halfway up the Nut! The Nut, Stanley, Tasmania's North West Coast. February 2012.

Tuesday Q and A and we continue to trawl our way through The 99'er Meme: Part 3. This week, no celebrity 'dating' question!

51) Do you tend to hold grudges against people who have done you wrong?
Absolutely. One tries not to dwell on it, but of course I begrudge when people get away with something shocking…

52) What is your astrological sign?
Taurus. It must be all nonsense though, because they reckon that I must be stubborn and ferocious in my anger!

53) Do you save money for anything? What?
I like to keep a buffer there for whatever might be needed. Never let that number anywhere near zero is my philosophy.

54) What's the last thing you purchased?
Shoes and shorts.

55) Have you ever had a relationship that you realised was lust not love?
I’ve never confused anything else with love.

56) In a relationship?
Yes.

57) How many relationships have you had?
Not many.

58) What do you want to tell us about your day?
A usual kind of day. As most days are…

59) Where were you yesterday?
I woke up and was at home. Then I went out and was at work. Then I went home again.

60) Is there anything interesting within 10 feet of you?
The document released by the Fair Work Ombudsman entitled Best Practice Guide for Gender Pay Equity is exhilarating stuff.

61) Are you wearing socks right now?
Indeed I am.

62) What's your favourite animal?
I like Great White Sharks, saltwater crocodiles, tigers and wolves.

And wombats.

63) What is your secret weapon to get someone to like you?
My natural charm, good looks and excellent sense of humour.

64) Where is your best friend?
She’s at home.

65) How did you end your last relationship end?
You know, I honestly can’t recall…

66) What is your heritage?
Mixed.

67) What were you doing last night at 12 AM?
Sleeping.

68) What's new?
I think that you might be asking the wrong person.

69) What is the key to seduction?
It depends. For some it is a big fat wallet.

70) What was the weirdest thing that happened to you this week?
A very odd conversation with someone that I am certain was uncomfortable for both of us.

71) You are walking down the street on your way to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss has told you if you are late one more time, you get fired. What do you do?
A dog? Pffft, as if I’m going to jump in a filthy canal for a dog.

72) You are at the doctor’s office and she has just informed you that you have approximately one month to live. a) Do you tell anyone/everyone you are going to die? b) What do you do with your remaining days? c) Would you be afraid?

a) I’d stew on it for a bit, but really must tell the missus.

b) I’d be thinking hard about how I might go about getting my hands on some cash, QUICKLY.

c) Bloody oath I would.

73) You can only have one of these things: trust or love.
Well, you can’t have the latter without the former.

74) What's a song that always makes you happy when you hear it?
Even The Bad Times Are Good by The Tremeloes is a good one. They sound like they are having great fun!

75) Who has your cell phone number (other than family)?
Very few people indeed.

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...

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. ...

This will hurt me...

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