Most of us have only two or three genuinely interesting moments in our lives; the rest is filler.

Fog on the eastern shore. Sullivans Cove, Hobart. June 2013.

More stealing from Sunday Stealing. This week, The Wish List Meme, part one

1.) What are 3 things on your Wish list and why?

i) infinite berries; ii) an inability to feel cold; and, iii) a bit of peace and quiet.

2.) What do you miss about your childhood?

The quiet. The time. The lack of responsibility.

3.) What do you do on your spare time on the weekends?

Spare time on weekends? You mean between the cooking, cleaning, putting washing out, getting washing in and putting washing away? We usually go for a walk or a swim.

4.) What do you appreciate most in your life?

Two healthy and happy little boys.

5.) Would you rather be rich or healthy?

Can't I have both? If not, what's the point in cash if you're at death's door?

6.) If you could go back in time would you and why?

To stay for good or just a visit? I wouldn't mind a visit every now and again. As a keen student of history I would like to see if some of my preconceptions about certain periods are anywhere near the mark.

7.) Favourite game as a child?

As much as I liked running around like a loon, kicking a ball or a spot of cricket, I always have enjoyed Trivial Pursuit.

8.) What is your dream career?

One that involves me doing what I'd like to do for enough money to make ends meet.

9.) What do you do in your free time?

Haven't we dealt with this one in question 3? If I have a moment to spare, I like to read or take photographs.

10.) Favourite clothing stores?

One that I can get in and out of as quickly and painlessly as possible.

11.) What TV shows can't you live without?

I can (and have) quite easily lived without TV shows. I think that I am quite near to the opinion that TV as an art form is lost to me.

12.) 3 things you need in your life are:

In no particular order: Jen, Henry and Ezra.

13.) What can't you sleep without?

A comfortable bed and blanket.

14.) What are you currently a nerd for?

Quantitative and qualitative date in relation to the reform of Australia's education system.

15.) What is your favourite seasoning?

It's hard to go past 'salt', but I do like paprika.

16.) What is your favourite wild animal?

This is a good one. I'm partial to the Great White Shark.

17.) Name 3 of your favourite childhood shows:

I liked Moonlighting. Are You Being Served always made me laugh. A third? Maybe Dad's Army or something like that.

18.) If you could live as a character in a movie who would it be?

That Iron Man seems to have it sorted.

19.) Favourite vegetable?

The versatile but dependable potato.

20.) Favourite Fruit?

I'm going to have to go with a raspberry.

21.) If you had a dragon what would you name it?

Clive.

22.) What do you put on hotdogs?

Good question. Sauerkraut, fried onion, cheddar cheese mustard and tomato sauce.

23.) Do you play online games?

I have been known to.

24.) What's your favourite way to get inspired?

A blue sky, fresh air and a nice long walk.

25.) Do you have a middle name?

Yes. Yes I do. It was the most common male name in the United States in 1990.

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. ...

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...

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...

This will hurt me...

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