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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Ezra's pre-shorn impression of the wild man of Borneo.

It's ok to grow up just as long as you don't go old. Face it, you are young.

They just about coped with the rain. Wait until we get them back into the snow...

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

Shadowboxing?

Don't set your wit against a child.

A backward 2 and ½ somersaults with 2 and ½ twists in the piked position. In a storm.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

At some point things will be clearer.

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

No spitting...

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Robot? You're a robot? An incredibly handsome robot!

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

It's a good thing that Ezra is standing in the munitions bay of Alexandra Battery, because this kid truly is dynamite .

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

It is Christmas Eve, and these two little mountaineers have conquered a little mountain to keep an eye out for someone dressed in red...

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Just when the weather gets us back in to a position that encourages visits to the beach, we get another cold snap...

The four stages of man are infancy, childhood, adolescence, and obsolescence.

I haven't even bothered to worry about how far away we are from accessing remote controlled children. I'm still waiting for the instillation of volume controls!

Adulthood is the ever-shrinking period between childhood and old age. It is the apparent aim of modern societies to reduce this period to a minimum.

The subject was falling. The photographer was falling. The golf ball was falling. Everybody falling all the time.

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

Lego Duplo vehicles as panopticon. A great leap forward in totalitarian omnipresence Henry. Congratulations!

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The complexity and range of Henry and Ezra's science experiments are increasing ten-fold. Here, you can see Henry taking a container of water highly enriched in the hydrogen isotope deuterium over to Ezra (out of shot), who has somehow managed to get his hands on some unenriched uranium (don't ask) and has a little scheme to reduce our electricity bills...

People will accept that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, but if a man doesn't drive, there's something wrong with him.

No Mr Bond… I expect you to DIE !