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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Greetings from Singapore! Is anybody out there?!?!

It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I accept.

Cavemen .

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Raincoats are awfully empowering to four-year-olds.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

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.

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.

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.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

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!

We die only once, and for such a long time.

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...

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.

Ezra investigates apples. Invariably he will eat a grub.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Jen and Ez await the arrival of the surf vampires...

Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.

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

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Look! He isn't talking!

Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

Basalt, mother. Basalt! An extrusive or intrusive rock that makes up most of the world's oceanic crust.

If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.

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

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

Henry, what are you doing?

No blessing lasts forever.

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

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.

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...

A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

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.