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Just don't. Geilston Bay High lower oval. Geilston Bay. January 2013. Today's Sunday Top Five is one with a legal bent. We know about the golf, but here are Five Other Things That You Can't Do On This Oval Besides Golf! [For more information, see the Tasmanian POLICE OFFENCES ACT 1935 .] A person must not be drunk while in charge of any vehicle or when in possession of any dangerous weapon. A person shall not habitually consort with reputed thieves. A person must not beg or expose wounds or deformities, or place himself or herself or otherwise act so as to induce, or attempt to induce, the giving of alms, or instigate or incite a child to do any of those things. A person shall not sing any profane or obscene song. A person, being the owner or usual keeper of a horse, mule, hinny, ass, ox, pig, sheep, or goat shall not permit the animal to graze or stray on the oval.

Cop shop. Approaching the corner or Argyle and Liverpool. Hobart CBD. December 2011. The Internet is a wonderful place filled with the rich and varied treasures of the world holds (and videos of fat people getting upset over the treatment of rich and famous people they will never know.) 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... It's devolution baby. The Twentieth Century as America’s cultural landscape altered every twenty or so years. These days popular style is stuck on repeat , consuming the past instead of creating the new... Wired offers its Five Best Toys of All Time . Best of all? You can snare all five for X-mas for less than a dollar! Moral philosopher Joshua Cohen touches on some hot button issues in this interview . I think he nails it on the topic of inequality. Vladimir Putin . He's back in the news. Mitt Romney leaps on Vietnam Vet for a photo opportunity , Vet happ...

Police HQ. Corner of Liverpool and Argyle Streets, Hobart. April 2011. Three books this week, and all rather good. Reading in the Dark is Irish poet Seamus Deane’s first. The novel is set in Derry, Norn Iron Northern Ireland and explores the fractured nature of identity, religion, memory and family. Indeed, a working title could well have been Secrets and Lies … Narrated from the point of view of a young Catholic boy, the novel is constructed from a series of vignettes that are dated and run in chronological order. However, the heart of the plot includes a number of unspoken family secret events dating back to the Irish Civil War and the bloody partition of 1923. Of course, such a setting presents some decent grist for the mill of a novelist. Thankfully Deane makes the most of it. This is a heartbreaking novel, all the more so when you realise that it could just as well be called a ‘memoir’, as events mirror Deane's upbringing. It can get a bit confusing at times, but that happen...