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No sooner does man discover intelligence than he tries to involve it in his own stupidity.

Free advertising. St Davids Park, Hobart. July 2013. No Sunday Top Five today. I'm on strike for Fathers Day.

Clevinger was dead. That was the basic flaw in his philosophy.

Walking home from work. St Davids Park, Hobart. June 2013. Wordless Wednesday. 10 Murray Street on acid. St Davids Park, Hobart. June 2013.

She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).

Tree. St Davids Park, Hobart. December 2012. Sunday Top Five ? So, at the end of last year I set myself to goal of knocking over 75 books this year. Thus far, I've knocked over 104 and am hoping to get through a few more before the year is out. Which leads me to... My Top Five Rated Books That I've Read This Year! Of Mice and Men , John Steinbeck The Painter of Signs , R.K. Narayan Tortilla Flat , John Steinbeck Cannery Row , John Steinbeck The Sense of an Ending , Julian Barnes Property , Valerie Martin The Glass Canoe , David Ireland Bring Larks And Heroes , Thomas Keneally Life and Fate , Vasily Grossman The Lost Thoughts Of Soldiers , Delia Falconer An interesting mix, to be sure. Three Steinbeck novels, three from Australians, an Indian love story, Barnes' mediation on memory, an exploration of gender and slavery and a lost Soviet classic. If I had to pick one? Tricky. Very tricky. Gun to my head, I'll go with The Glass Canoe ...

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Looking at a tree, what do I see? Sunday Top Five! Today I can present my Top Five Pets To Buy Henry For His Third Birthday: 5: one wombat ; 4: a breeding pair of fairy penguins ; 3: one Siberian tiger ; 2: one [male] saltwater crocodile ; 1: one [female] Great White Shark . I'm thinking that it will make for a hell of a party.

To die would be an awfully big adventure.

Now (probably) Hobart’s most utilised public common, St David's Park was actually the site of Hobart's first cemetery. Indeed, David Collins - the inaugural Lieutenant Governor of the Colony of Van Diemens Land, not to mention founder of Hobart itself – is buried here. Now, don’t get the wrong end the stick. Young lovers aren’t exactly lunching (or worse) on the graves or anything. That would be most inappropriate . No, the bulk of the headstones were carted off years ago, although some of the bigger ones remain for you to peruse as you eat your discount sushi. But not to worry if you are a fan of old grave fields! The area of the park that adjoins the Supreme Court remains home to many of those headstones that used to litter what is now a lush public garden (if not the mouldering remains). Thus, you can while away many an hour inspecting the particulars of particular people long since departed. Look at the tale of poor old Harriet Ann [below], I would wager that she did not ...