Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Me and my shadow. Quayle Street, Sandy Bay. May 2012.

Another Q and A, you say?

Sunday Stealing, you ask?

Why yes, this week, it's Part Two of the Get Out of Jail Free Meme! (And appears to have been written by someone with low literacy levels...)

21. Has there ever been anyone that now you regret meeting?
There has been more than a few of these. Charlatans, timewasters and generally anyone with dishonest intent. There are a few of them about.

22. What's the last film you saw? Would you recommend it?
It was Disney’s Peter Pan. If you have kids, I’d recommend it. It kept them transfixed throughout, so on that score it is a winner. I’m not sure why Peter needed that ‘moms, pops and apple pie’ accent though. It grated with me.

23. Would you rather have roommates or live alone?
Why do people say ‘roomates’ when I assume that they mean ‘housemates’ or ‘flatmates’? Or do people in the US actually continue to share rooms into adulthood? No wonder people are always shooting each other or biting people’s faces off. To the questions, no, living alone doesn’t appeal to me.

24. Do you like any of your friends a little more than just a friend?
¿No Comprende? Are you asking if I have any kind of romantic or sexual designs on an otherwise Platonic friend? If so, no I don’t. If you mean do I have hierarchies of ‘like’ in friends, of course!

25. Post a rather current song that you'd like us to hear.
I’m enjoying Europe, the new album from Allo Darlin’. The first single is called Capricornia. I like it.

27.Tell us what the best part of being a parent is.
Watching somebody who is part you, part someone else, but very much themselves grow, evolve and change is a rather mind-blowing experience. I’m not sure that it is comparable with anything else.

28. Do you give money to homeless people when they ask?
No. I have been known to give food though.

29. A weekend in Las Vegas or Miami? Why?
Pass. I’d honestly rather stay home than go to either of those towns.

30. What was your reaction to the President supporting gay marriage?
“What took you so long?”

31. You are totally alone on a Saturday. What do you do?
Tidy up. Enjoy the peace and quiet. Read a book. Play a game.

32. You have 3 months left to live, what is your bucket list?
I hear a lot about this ‘bucket list’ business, but am not 100% certain that I understand it. Storing things in a bucket? I expect that I would work out things that I wanted to do with Jen and the kids and try and get out there and do them. I’d no doubt be writing a lot of stuff down/ recording stuff for the boys to consider as they get older.

33. You're having a bad day, what one thing can make your day better?
Sleep.

34. Ever use a tanning bed?
No. Never would, either.

35. Is there anything you would change about your body if you could?
I’d stop it aching so much.

36. You wake up in an unfamiliar place, what is your first reaction?
“What have I done?”

37. Is there anything that you should be doing right now?
Lots of things.

38. At what age do you think that sex becomes less important? Why?
I hope that it never becomes less important that it is. That is, it is important as it needs to be at any given point in time and place.

39. What is your favourite breakfast food?
Porridge and fresh fruit.

40. Your phone rings at 4am, who do you expect it to be?
I don’t care who it is, I’m not answering it.

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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