This will hurt me...

Henry and Ezra do their very best impersonation of two shags on a very small rock.

A fence is a fence. East Derwent Highway, Geilston Bay. April 2013. Fences? Pffffftt! In Ostrobothnia , Gosta Agren Here each town is a footnote to the forest's melancholy mass of text, here the horizon bares its teeth. Here freedom shrinks to restlessness. Here necessity grows into tranquility. One travels aways in an attempt to prevent what must happen. One stays here, and as the years go by life grows simplified until there are left only earth and sky.

Ezra has found a blackberry. Run, blackberry, run!

Just beneath the surface. Errol Flynn Reserve, Sandy Bay. April 2013. Chopin's Move , Jean Echenoz: Very French. I didn't like it much. F . The Day of the Triffids , John Wyndham: Another bleak novel from Wyndham. I hadn't read this since high school, but for some reason had the urge to revisit it. The story rollicks along easily enough, even if it never quite manages to convince... C+ .

Henry, what are you doing?

Ezra, Jen and Hen. Oozing sincerity. Boat Harbour. April 2013. Theme Thursday . ANZAC Day. INTOXICATE. Sad but true. Beer, flags, patriotism, narrow minded bigots. All the same.

Ezra at dusk.

10 Murray Street, Hobart. April 2013. Wordless Wednesday.

Can you believe it? He's smiling in a photo!

The gang's all here. Table Cape Lighthouse, Table Cape. April 2013. Sunday Stealing: The 5000 Question Meme, The Final Part One 76. Do you prefer Disney or Warner Brothers? It depends on one's mood. For the shorter film, give me WB. For the feature length, probably Disney. 77. What is the first animal you would run to see if you went to the zoo? I do like the very large bears. 78. Would you consider yourself to be romantic? How might you define it? If 'traditional' (i.e. chocolates, wine, roses and trite platitudes) not in the slightest. If you're more practically-oriented (i.e. housework, cooking, child rearing), then definitely! 79. If the earth stopped rotating would we all fly off? Don't be silly. 80. What is the one thing that you love to do so much that you would make sacrifices to be able to do it? I make sacrifices to do the things that I want to do already! For example, 'career'. 81. If you (and everyone) had to lose one righ...

Sisters Creek, flowing into Sisters Beach, has proven as popular with this current generation of McCracken boys as it was the previous mob.

Sunset, and the boys are thinking about ice cream. Boat Harbour Beach, Boat Harbour. April 2013. As you know, the Internet is a wonderful place filled with the rich and varied treasures of the world holds (and RSS feeds.) The following are some things that I've had a look at in the last week. I call this: a Compendium of Click-throughs for Monday Morning... The Do’s and Don’ts of Photography The Strange Beauty of Salt Mines Hitler's Words Into Stone: Can architecture itself be fascist? 7 billion people on 1 page A .gif of a cat in a shark costume on a Roomba chasing a duckling Wonderful, horrible children's toys based on children's drawings Shady Characters: The secret life of punctuation Vienna, 1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place A Point of View: Science, magic, and madness Russian volcanoes! 'Don't Think of Ugly People': How Parenting Advice Has Changed in the past hundred or so...

Henry flushes out the tiger snakes.

Emu River. Fern Glade, Burnie. April 2013. Today's Sunday Top Five is a simple one: Five Things That *Particularly* Annoyed Me This Week! Large, belligerent girls in bus malls. People who smoke when they walk. Hipsters who can't handle their bicycles. Foul- mouthed bus travelers. People who think that they are asking questions when they are really making statements.