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Boat race? The Derwent Estuary, as seen from Napoleon Street, Battery Point. July 2013. Theme Thursday ? SPACE? Object. ↓ ↓ ↓ ↓ →                                                                        ← ↑ ↑ ↑ ↑ Object.

Summer is coming to an end. Primrose Beach, Primrose Sands. February 2013. Wordless Wednesday. Wordless Wednesday, Primrose Sands, beautiful water, lovely sights, Hobart in the Summer, Primrose Beach, boats,

I know boats. Errol Flynn Park, Sandy Bay. September 2012. 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... Are Neanderthals Human? Some great photos of life in North Korea. Has the UK seen the end of the stiff upper lip? Yet more REALLY great photos in the National Geographic Photo Contest 2012 . Some interesting thoughts in this BBC piece on child obesity: Why do parents let their kids get fat?

Peek through the rails. From the Tasman Bridge, looking south. September 2012. So it is Tuesday, which usually means stealing from Sunday. This week: The 88 Meme, Part Three ! 46. What are your LEGAL initials? K.J.M. 47. Who's the first B in your contacts? Ben is. 48. When was the last time you laughed really hard? After a thoroughly unkind impression that I did of someone else. My laughter was in response of someone else’s response, for the record, not my own performance. 49. Your number 1 top friend walks out of your life, do you go after them? Absolutely. 50. Explain your last awkward moment? Failing to explain a relatively straightforward concept to someone after three of four good tries. It was only awkward in the sense that someone’s stupidity was very clearly exposed to a roomful of people (who all immediately grasped the point). 51. Are you afraid of the dark? No. Sometimes I have found myself afraid of the things that might be lurking in the dark ...

Boats on the Derwent. Just off Tranmere, as seen from Sandy Bay. August 2012. Father's Day? Sunday Top Five? I have an idea! My Top Five Interesting Dads In The Animal Kingdom ! Lions . Greedy and lazy buggers, lion fathers. They occupy most of their time lying about in the shade, waiting for one of their wives to bring home dinner. Female lions do pretty much all of the hunting and almost all of the parenting. Of course, this bugger likes to eat first, and is happy enough in lean seasons to let everyone else starve to death rather than go without a feed... Emperor Penguins . You probably already know this, but this dedicated dad holds his missus's eggs on the top of his feet, covering them with his belly for two months in the frigid Antarctic... without eating! Where is is partner? That's rights, she's off shagging and eating! Grizzly Bears. These bears like their own space, they really do. They also like to eat. A lot. Which means that if mamma bear doe...

Careful Henry. Don't do anything silly now...

Coming back with crays. On the Derwent, as seen from Long Beach, Sandy Bay. September 2011. The Lucky 33 Meme [part 1]! 1. Can you cook? Absolutely! 2. What was your dream growing up? Lots of beautiful women. 3. What talent do you wish you had? Turning a blind eye. 4. Favourite place? Home. 5. Favourite vegetable The wonderfully durable potato. 6. What was the last book you read. The Appointment by Herta Müller 7. What zodiac sign are you? Taurus. 8. Any Tattoos and/or Piercings? Not one. Ever. 9. Worst Habit? Groping my wife. 10. Do you personally know anybody on Blog? Erm... 11. What is your favorite sport? Sychronised jelly tickling. 12. Negative or Optimistic attitude? Realistic. 13. What would you do if you were stuck in an lift with someone of the opposite sex? We would wait. 14. Worst thing to ever happen to you? My children were born very loud. 15. Tell me one weird fact about you: I am nine percent blancmange. 16. Do you have any pets? Only a wife and two children.

Longing for summer. Opossum Bay, February 2011. Thus far in the life of this blog there have been quite a few posts. Two-thousand, six-hundred and eighty-nine posts, to be exact. 2,689. A decent amount of posts you will agree. At the bottom of every post, you’ll find a number of tags. How many tags, you ask? I dunno, count them! 10 Murray 100% natural 1970s 24 carat pissants 500 8 weeks a better class of people a big job a bright shade of red a busy street a confused sense of sexuality a dead bird a fall from grace a filthy filthy habit pursued by foolish people a friend indeed a great big world a hard day's night a lady with an agenda a lert but not a larmed a lick of paint a matter of honour a mug's game a pair of geese a pirates life for me a question of taste a shoe in a tree A Son of War a spot of weather a stupid animal is an annoying animal a sweet tooth a womens place is under her husbands thumb abandoned buildings Abbott ABC about me about us above the clouds accents a...

Zipping around the Derwent. Hobart, as seen from Bellerive. March 2011. It's turned a bit cold in the last few days, and no amount of stamping of feet or burpees can make it go away. AND everywhere I look I see Toy Story 3.

Like Warren Beatty in an aquatic version of Bonnie and Clyde , Henry showcases an exceptional range of charisma, charm and spunkicity. [For the purpose of the analogy, I shall be assuming the role of Faye Dunaway.]

It was tempting, but in the end, Henry and I did not hi-jack the boat. Opossum Bay, January 2011. I think that we need a little boat. Or a big boat. One of the two. Or maybe a submarine. Or some other kind of submersible vehicle. A hydrofoil? No, what we need is an ekranoplan ! Apology , William Carlos Williams The beauty of the terrible faces of our nonentites stirs me to it: colored women day workers— old and experienced— returning home at dusk in cast off clothing faces like old Florentine oak. Also the set pieces of your faces stir me— leading citizens— but not in the same way.

Resting for Autumn. Sullivans Cove, May 2010. Once again, an anti-Antipodean decree has confirmed those of us down here at the arse-end of the world second nay, eighth -class citizens! To “celebrate” the one-hundredth posting of the Theme Thursday meme, the Theme Thursday junta have offered the diktat that the topic for the Theme will only appear on Thursday, at 6:00 a.m. Eastern United States Time. For those in the know, 6 am eating bagels in New York means 8 pm in Hobart bathing children! Given that I have established an 8:30 am/8 pm dynamic of general shot/Henry and Ezra shot, the new format does not really work for me . Hence, today I share with you my decision to declare throw off the yoke of Yankee imperialism and declare my independence! Yes people, today I choose my own destiny through selecting my own Theme Thursday topic. Today I have a doozy: POTAMOPHILOUS . Yes, I very much fit the profile of a POTAMOPHILOUS -type, as all of you will no doubt already know by the sheer am...

Late afternoon looking over Geilston Bay to New Town. July 2010. Last one! 91. DO YOU LIKE SUSHI? Very much. With extra wasabi and pickled ginger. 92. LAST THING YOU WATCHED? Ezra laughing. 93. FAVOURITE DAY OF THE YEAR? Tomorrow. 94. ARE YOU TOO SHY TO ASK SOMEONE OUT? Too scared. Jen would not approve. 95. SUMMER OR WINTER? It is currently winter. In winter, I miss summer. In summer, I miss winter. I’m complex. 96. KISSES OR HUGS? Kisses AND hugs. I’m greedy like that. 97. RELATIONSHIPS OR ONE-NIGHT STANDS? Marriages. 98. WHO IS THE MOST LIKELY TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? Those short of blogging ideas. 99. WHO IS THE LEAST LIKELY TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS? Automatons. 100. CREATE YOUR OWN QUESTION! What next?

L'Astrolabe waits down in Salamanca. June, 2010. The new job, a common cold, difficulties matching up bus schedules and the tricky art of walking around taking photos right outside a large girl's high school (right on the entrance to my new work site) mean that I haven't 'processed' any new images yet. Should get a few online by the weekend though. I am pleased to report that I am settling in to the new position nicely. The hefty salary increase more than makes up for being rewarded with a battery pen cubicle smack bang in the middle of the top floor of my building. There's nothing quite like have a workstation within sight lines of everybody on the floor!

Early morning boat race. Sullivans Cove, June 2010. Today's Sunday Top Five? How about my Top Five Australian Prime Ministers ! Try and guess the theme... John Curtin [ALP, 7 October 1941 – 5 July 1945] Bob Hawke [ALP, 11 March 1983 – 20 December 1991] Ben Chifley [ALP, 13 July 1945 – 19 December 1949] Andrew Fisher [ALP, 13 November 1908 – 2 June 1909; 29 April 1910 – 24 June 1913; 17 September 1914 – 27 October 1915] Chris Watson [ALP, 27 April – 18 August 1904] Who's winning? The one on the left? Right? Middle? June 2010. I'm pretty sure that boat in the middle is being steered by Andrew Peacock! Unleash the spinnaker! (Is that legal?) June 2010. Look! It's Bill Hayden!

A kayaker checks out the competition down at Hinsby Beach, May 2010. Theme Thursday delivers yet another tricky one this week for us Antipodeans . CANDY. In Australia, CANDY is a stripper . CANDY is a working girl . CANDY is a woman of ill repute . CANDY is not lollies . CANDY is not sweets , nor is it sweeties . CANDY is not toffee , loll-loll or ket . In Australia, CANDY is most certainly not confectionery . The man in the kayak may well be eye CANDY (for some), or arm CANDY (for others), but I would advise against eating him (there are laws about that). I'm glad that we got that sorted...

Walking to walk. April 2010. Above you can see the MV Cartela , a fine little steamer operating out of Sullivans Cove here in Hobart. By all accounts, she is now Australia's oldest continuously licensed passenger vessel. Take that, RMS Titanic!

Preparing one's leave. April, 2010. . There is something very nice about Autumn light. It might be getting colder, but it appears the Derwent is also getting blue-r more blue! I knew a bloke once, nice bloke, he liked to swim. That's all.

Have I mentioned that the Aurora Australis is very orange? Of course, I'm talking about the ship, not the colourful southern polar lights caused by the result of the emissions of photons in the Earth's upper atmosphere, they're all different kinds of colour.

Another day, another shot of Sullivan's Cove down here in Hobart. This morning the bus arrived on time, and despite the presence of one youngster who wanted to share the latest pop s hit (think robot voice unimpressively droning over equally unimpressive synth drum beat) with all on the bus, the trip passed by as pleasantly as one might expect. This contrasts very much with three o'clock this morning, when I (an I suspect that everyone else) was awoken by the incessant squealing of tyres and revving of engines. Not being a " car man " myself, I shudder at the thought of the incredibly minuscule penises that must lay at the root of such behaviour...