Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

One day people will come and wonder what all of this was about. Footpath leading onto the Tasman Highway, Hobart. June 2012.

I suspect (hope?) that we are nearing the end of this marathon series of Q and A stolen from Sunday Stealing, the ominous Imaginary Meme, Part Six!

101. Name 4 things you always have with you.
i) Watch, ii) wallet, iii) keys, iv) phone. More often than not, I also have v) camera and vi) book.

102. How many SERIOUS ex-girlfriends/ boyfriends/ significant others do you have?
None.

103. What causes you to you admire people?
Anyone who manages to combine half a brain with integrity always warrants my admiration.

104. Do you like sports?
I do.

105. Would you have sex after marriage? Why or why not?
What an odd question. I can only presume that they mean ‘before’ rather than after, although it seems that there is often a correlation between post-marriage/ decline in sexual congress. As for sex before marriage: why ever not?

106. What is your favourite male name?
It’s a toss-up between ‘Henry’ and ‘Ezra’.

107. Do animals go to Heaven?
There is no such place, so how could they go there?

108. Last time you had a great time with your dad?
The trip to Bonorong Wildlife Park was fun.

109. What is your favourite hair style?
If you believe some people, it must the the floppy foppish Hugh Grant mid-90s cut.

110. Do you like your name?
Not much.

111. When was the last time that you quit your job?
A year ago. Fingers crossed, you never know...

112. When you wake up, what is the first thing you think?
“Oh Christ. Here we go again.”

113. Have you ever pulled an all-niter?
Not for a long time.

114. What is the perfect day for you?
Blue sky, sunshine, nice things to look at. A bit of peace and quiet. I have simple tastes.

115. Last time you cleaned the bathroom?
I more do it as I go, rather than set aside one big session.

116. Have you ever failed a grade? Why?
I’ve not really failed, as such. I have certainly failed to maximise my potential though...

117. Have you met anyone online?
I’ve met lots of people online.

118. Have you ever smoked?
Not cigarettes, no.

119. Do you like celebrities?
Not because they are celebrities, no. I don’t find them particularly interesting.

120. Do you like travelling?
Within reason. Although it does depend on the weather, the company you keep and the state of your bank balance.

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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