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I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work.

If that is not an awestruck look, I'll go jump in the lake!

Humour is the most engaging cowardice.

Have YOU ever ridden a concrete elephant?

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

Mountain goat urinates on other mountain goat in front of the Harbour Bridge, Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney. September 2012. Wordless Wednesday.

Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

You can have dogs shot, can't you?

When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

Australian Fur Seal, Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney. September 2012. This Sunday Top Five I thought that I'd share with My Top Five Favourite Words That Rhyme With 'KNOW'! Beau Dough Faux Schmo Woe

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Lizard on a rock. At the ferry terminus outside Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney. September 2012. This Theme Thursday , I'm considering the POSSIBILITIES. For example, I might well end up accepting a dare today. Perhaps a doorman who is sensitive to others' auras might enter into the equation. You never know, I might have to prove myself to a psychic judge with transphobic tendencies. These things happen. Like the time that that guy told on that other guy. And the journalist who wants everything done by the rules got involved. It’s a dangerous business admitting to a fantasy, especially to a necromancer who has amnesia! We live in a colourful world. I knew a girl once who got into a bit of trouble when she started at a new school. She’d fallen into the wrong crowd and under the influence of a vampire who was trying to cover up a previous crime. It got a bit messy, there was a power-hungry weather announcer. The trouble was that he was trying to save his marriage but the vampir...

Quit resisting, you!

Ezra does his best impression of a fennec fox. Now with added BONUS Henry impression of a fennec fox!

No two persons ever read the same book.

Dozing gator. Taronga Park Zoo, Sydney. September 2012. The Milkman in the Night , Andrey Kurkov Andrey Kurkov is my favourite author of post-Soviet blackly comic, absurdist tales. This isn't really his best (a little too much telling rather than showing for my taste), but it is an enjoyable little romp through modern-day Kyev. C+

There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.

Henry bags his first crocodile!