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Table Cape farmland #1. Table Cape, North West Tasmania. April 2013. Theme Thursday ? Yeah, one of those days. Table Cape farmland #2. Table Cape, North West Tasmania. April 2013. A good day for DREAMS.

Carrying Ezra down the Nut. Stanley, Tasmania's North West Coast. April 2013. Theme Thursday already and I think that we are facing some serious TRUST issues... Looking out over Bass Strait from atop the Nut. Stanley, Tasmania's North West Coast. April 2013. Sawyer Bay, as seen from the Nut. Stanley, Tasmania's North West Coast. April 2013.

Lonely water tower. Boat Harbour, Tasmania's North West Coast. April 2013. A special 'hints and tips' Sunday Top Five today: Five Things That I Have Learned That Are Worth Reminding People Of! It is a lot more difficult to get rid of calories than it is to avoid consuming them in the first place. The ability to be happy is nothing more than working out how to deal with things changing. Bad moods are a reality of everybody’s life, and trying to force them away makes them run deeper and last longer. If everyone in the movie or TV show you’re watching is good-looking, it isn’t worth watching. If anything is worth spending a bit of money on, it’s a high-quality mattress. You spend at least a third of your life using it!

Proud Gull. Boat Harbour. April 2013. It is another Theme Thursday and today sees a burst of CREATIVITY and a shot little piece that came to me on the walk to work. I call it Perception . Quiet Jim was the first of the old gang to die. It came as a bit of a shock to get the invite to his funeral on Facebook. There were five in our gang: me; Quiet Jim (he was the quiet one); Loud Jim (he was the loud one); Big Jim (he was the fat one); and Little Jim (he wasn't very little, but he was much smaller than Big Jim). They just called me ‘Mike’. It was a surprise to all of us that Quiet Jim was the first to go. He was so, well, quiet . Loud Jim drank too much, got into fights and generally wasn't a very nice person.Big Jim’s diet was terrible, he smoked like a chimney and the mere thought of exercise could send him into apoplexy. Little Jim (who really wasn't little at all) had a taste for bizarre sexual practices. I’m pretty laid back, but as an avid trainspotter am al...

Ezra investigates apples. Invariably he will eat a grub.

Seeds. Fern Glade, Burnie. April 2013. Wordless Wednesday.

Look! He isn't talking!

I finally had a chance to prove the family that Tasmania's North West Coast is the true CRAB CAPITAL of Tasmania!

Precambrian quartzite #1. Rocky Cape National Park, North West Coast of Tasmania. April 2013. Wordless Wednesday. Precambrian quartzite #2. Rocky Cape National Park, North West Coast of Tasmania. April 2013.

Raw periwinkles. In salt. Yum.

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

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.

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.

Yesterday evening you saw Henry struggle the entire way up The Nut (in Stanley), this fine evening you can see the despicable shortcut that his brother and mother took. We still won.