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Urban grit Henry.

Domestic violence as comedy. Hobart Spring Festival, Royal Botanical Gardens, October 2012. Sunday Stealing: Who Are you? Part 2–The Grown Up Meme 15. How would you describe your childhood in general? Reasonably unnoteworthy. 16. What is your earliest memory? Kevin Bartlett’s final goal in the 1980 VFL Grand Final. 17. How much schooling have you had? Too much! Primary School. High School. College. University. On and on it went… 18. Did you enjoy school? I enjoyed the first few years. Loathed the middle part, and enjoyed the last year of college on. 19. Stop and count, Since you were born until today; how many homes have you lived in? That I know about: eight . 20. While growing up, did you have any role models? I’m sure that I did, but I am not certain that I realised at the time. 21. While growing up, how did you get along with the other members of your family? We have had our ups and downs. Being the youngest comes with its own set of challenges. 22. As a c...

MERRY CHRISTMAS (flower). Royal Botanical Gardens. October 2011. While I am busy keeping a lid on proceedings in the real world, I will let the robot take care of business on the blog front. Today, the robot gets the great privilege of drafting A Very Special Sunday Top Five . Well, robot...? Today I present to you The Very Top Five Things That I Like To Do On December 25 That Does Not Involve The [Alleged] Birth Of A Baby Of [Alleged] Uncertain Parentage Or A Fat Bloke In A Red Jump Suit ! Eating chocolate mousse! Visiting the beach! Having My Feet Rubbed! Vacuuming! Quietly rocking in a dark corner gently hitting my forehead onto the ground! If I can be bothered, I'll post some pictures of children with presents 'n stuff later on...

I'm betting on the angry little guy.

Windmill at the Spring Festival. Royal Botanical Gardens, Hobart. October 2011. Theme Thursday again, and this week I am in a "railing against" mood. You see, I currently hold the controversial opinion that there are too many gizmos and GADGETs these days. It used to be that the most advanced gadget you'd see at a meeting was the humble retractable pencil. Then overhead projectors got a foothold. As they died out, along came the laptop and with it the dreaded PowerPoint. Alongside this bloated behemoth you will now find your audience (that's how I view meetings, d'you wanna make something of it?) came the mobile phone, the I-Pod, the I-Pad, the touch pad maxi pad taxi pad plus-double-plus-plus. There are the coffee machines on the way in. Fax machines on the way out. The boom gate in the parking bay and the pay-as-you-go before you can go machine. There are the octopus phones and the video-conference gear that never works and the stapler that never works and the ...

Now this bloke has started to recognise and identify letters, you can't STOP him reading!