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The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

Sunshine on my shoulder in my eyes makes me happy kind of annoys me.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.

Two little boats. Long Beach, Sandy Bay. February 2013. Today's Sunday Top Five is a very special one. Yes, it is Events That You Can Only Celebrate In May! May 7: C'mon . Don't make me say it ... May 9: National Lost Sock Memorial Day May 10: Clean Up Your Room Day May 29: End Of Middle Ages Day May 30: My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It Day

He who praises everybody, praises nobody. 

You might have seen this somewhere before... The Derwent Estuary, looking over to Tranmere and beyond. July 2012. Theme Thursday ? Stormy, eh? Looks okay to me...

It is man's indomitable nature to scare himself silly for no good reason!

Handsome Henry hints at harmonious habiliment. He has his hypnopompic hibernation planned.

Comedy always works best when it is mean-spirited.

A race from the end of last summer. Long Beach, Sandy Bay. February 2012. I catch the bus to and from work each day, and am therefore exposed to many of the horrors of modern top ten charting pop hits, as the local bus company appear to have all radio dials soldered in to commercial FM stations. The endless s hit parade of Auto-Tune atrocities does make one want to weep, especially if you're keen a nice vocal track here and there. Thus, for today's Sunday Top Five Six, I revisit some of my favourites from Berry Gordy's Motown label. Now, I'm not claiming this as a definitive list by any stretch, but these songs offer sustenance to my ears after another abominable 'tune' that's been processed to within an inch of it's life on GarageBand or some such... Thus, I present to you My Top Five Six Motown Remedies In The Event That I Hear That Incredibly Bad Tik-Tok Song (Or One Of Seemingly Fourteen-Thousand Like It)! This Old Heart of Mine (Is Weak F...

Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.

Another day, another cold snap!

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

Like reality television 'stars' and zoo animals, my children tolerate the camera in their faces remarkably well...

Youth has no age.

Henry discovers where all of Tasmania's trams eventually went...

The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.

Have you checked your manhole today? Long Beach Walkway, Sandy Bay. January 2012. Last week's Top Five involved the bowling line-up of players that I've seen play , so I figure this week's top five six should finish the task. Thus, The Top Five Six Batsmen I've Seen Play Cricket To Be In My Side I Was Picking A Squad To Play A Test Against A Team Of Robots Programmed To Play Cricket Really Very Well! [In Batting Order.] [Note: this team will be playing to the rules of the mid-1980s, so we're allowed plenty of bouncers. Also, the curator has been told to prepare a tasty wicket, so no flat track rubbish that you see nine out of ten in modern tests...] C.G. Greenidge S.M. Gavaskar S.R. Tendulkar I.V.A. Richards S.R. Waugh (*) A.C. Gilchrist (wk) This team is rounded out by Imran Khan, Richard Hadlee, Shane Warne, Malcolm Marshall and Curtley Ambrose. Should be tough to beat on all tracks I reckon. Just missing the cut were Brian Lara, Mohammad Yousuf, Javed Miandad, R...

Manners are love in a cool climate.

Ez does his best impression of a giraffe.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

They aren't shy when it comes to lil' folk. Especially when there are adventures to be had...

The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.

Scooting past abandoned gun emplacements... Will the events of the past fortnight in London, coupled together with global fiscal instability, compel us [i.e. Ezra and I] to purchase a couple of Krupp 11 inch coastal artillery guns and set about readying ourselves for action?

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

On a clear day, from this boat ramp, you can see forever up to Geilston Bay.

The place where optimism flourishes most is the lunatic asylum.

Note that technique. Delicate, ‘soft hands’. Tender, yet secure. Yes, here is someone with advanced skills in toddler-wrangling…

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

It’s official! Henry is indeed blessed from above…

When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.

"Let me explain something to you, Walsh. This business requires a certain amount of finesse." Can you pick it...?

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.

I think that Jen has spotted this Wally pretty easily...