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Some of the smartest people in the world never talk cause they got more sense than everybody else.

Cold seagull. Constitution Dock, Hobart waterfront. July 2013. Sunday Top Five Dear oh dear. Bugger me.

The photograph should be more interesting or more beautiful than what was photographed.

Ezra as Bond villain.

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Snow joke!

The foolish man lies awake all night thinking of his many problems. When the morning comes he is worn out, and his trouble is just as it was.

Henrik samler snø. Han vil bruke snøen for fisk. Fisken vil bli frosset. Henrik vil spise fisken. Det vil være en stolt dag.

Reality continues to ruin my life.

Ich bin sehr kalt.

You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.

Quite right Ezra. Quite right.

With foxes we must play the fox.

Who is it? Why, it's Henry!

The letter is now at the censor's.

Snow Gum, Eucalyptus pauciflora. Lake Dobson, Mount Field National Park. April 2013. Marry me. Go on, I dare you to. To Friends behind a Frontier , Tomas Transtromer I I wrote so meagrely to you. But what I couldn't write swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship and drifted away at last through the night sky. II The letter is now at the censor's. He lights his lamp. In the glare my words fly up like monkeys on a grille, rattle it, become still, and bare their teeth. III Read between the lines. We'll meet in 200 years when the microphones in the hotel's walls are forgotten and can at last sleep, become trilobites.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

Jen and Ezra slowly make their way around Lake Dobson. Before it starts snowing.

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.

Henry is not too fussed with icebergs in the water. Sharks, that's another matter!

It's sometimes better to pretend I don't hear the sound of somebody in the nearby woods with a shotgun.

Hot and cold?

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

For some reason my children resent being taken on lovely Sunday morning strolls on paths of frozen mud in the dead of winter. Bloody soft southerners!

Kids. They're not easy. But there has to be some penalty for sex.

Alles klar!

Most nations, as well as people, are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

You'll note that my children wear a lot of knitted materials. The hat and the jumper that Ez is decked out in here were scrupulously made by my talented wife. I am hoping that this Christmas, she will knit me a big jumper with great big cables inspired by the fine work of Jenny Kee . Maybe with a Vegemite jar on it. With an angry koala bursting out of it. Holding a stubby . And a boomerang . With a crashing wave in the background. With a surfer on it. Also holding a boomerang . Now THAT is change we can believe in...

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

You would never guess it, but the man who has earned the moniker "Cranky Hanky" occasionally gets grumpy. I for one blame his mother...

A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.

Now, we'd just hate it for a rock – say, like this one – to accidently smash your front windscreen. This is a good clean beach see. We'd HATE it to happen. That's why we operate this little enterprise. You pay us, and we make sure ‘accidents’ like that just don't happen. Capisce ?

Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.

Scenes from a film: Walkabout II: Due South

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Henry reclining in foreground with tea cosy on head. Hobart Cenotaph in background. Ezra midground.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

The little bloke has nerves of steel, the constitution of an ox and the character of an aged Bactrian camel. Just look at that resolute gaze as the frigid waves crash into him!

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

Penguin rampage! Melbourne Aquarium, April 2011. If it's not flocks of sharks terrorising innocent civilians, it's hordes of penguins! I see that the US government is claiming that a group of Navy Seals killed nullified Mr Bin Ladin. I'm not so sure. I have a theory that it was a crack group of rogue Navy Penguins ... Pingüino alboroto! Melbourne Aquarium, April 2011.