At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.

Blurry goose. Geilston Bay boat ramp, Geilston Bay. July 2012.

Tuesdays mean another pilfered Q and A from Sunday Stealing! This week, the very appropriate The Too Tired to Think Meme, Part 1...

1. You have 10 dollars and need to buy snacks at a gas station. What do you get?
Some apples, maybe some water. I’ll pocket the change.

2. If you were reincarnated as a sea creature, what would you want to be?
A Great White Shark.

3. Who’s your favourite redhead?
‘Favourite redhead’. Now there is an oxymoron if I have ever heard one!

4. What do you order when you’re at IHOP?
[Googles IHOP]. If I had been to the ‘IHOP’ (assuming that first I had heard of the ‘IHOP’), I think that I would order the ‘SIMPLE & FIT Fresh Fruit & Yogurt Bowl’.

5. Last book you read?
Swindled: The Dark History Of The Food Cheats by Bee Wilson. It’s a popular history of food adulteration. Fascinating stuff.

6. Describe your mood.
Restrained.

7. Describe the last time you were injured.
It’s been a while. Probably when I pinched a nerve bouncing Henry to sleep (he was a big baby).

8. Of all your friends, who would you want to be stuck in a well with?
Jen. We could find something to pass the time, I’m sure...

9. Rock concert or symphony?
How about a library?

10. What is the wallpaper of your cell phone? The number? (We'll just say "hi" - promise.)
It’s a photo of mine. Some trees and some clouds. The number? I honestly can’t remember it.

11. Favourite soda?
I refrain these days. If I allowed myself though, it would be a sharp ginger beer.

12. What type of shirt are you wearing?
A nice and casual short sleeve shirt. I’m not paid enough to wear business shirts.

13. If you could only use one form of transportation?
Feet!

14. Most recent movie you have watched in a theatre.
I have actually seen one lately! The first in years, actually. It was (in Australia) The Pirates! Band of Misfits (which was titled The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists everywhere outside of Australia and the US). We liked it.

15. Name an actor/ actress/ singer you have had the hots for.
Mel Gibson (in Mad Max)/ Irene Jacob (in Three Colours: Red/ Sabrina (and friends) in that video clip for Boys (Summertime Love).

16. What’s your favourite kind of cake?
At the moment, it’s a carrot and ginger special that I do.

17. What did you have for dinner last night?
A hearty winter’s vegetable soup.

18. Look to your left, what do you see?
A photo of Ezra grinning at me.

19. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
It depends on the shoe. Some I do, some I don’t. Today I have boots on, so untying is required.

20. Favourite toy as a child?
It’s hard to go past a decent footy or a cricket bat and ball.

21. Do you buy your own groceries?
Yes. Who else would?

22. Do you think people talk about you behind your back?
I certainly hope so!

23. When was the last time you had gummy worms?
I’m not sure that I ever had.

24. What’s your favourite fruit?
Probably a ruby red grapefruit. Or fresh raspberries. Or blueberries. Or black berries. Or a decent banana. I like fruit. It’s hard to narrow it down to one.

25. Do you have a picture of yourself doing a cartwheel?
No. I’m not very good at cartwheels. Never have been.

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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