This will hurt me...

All we need is some pan pipes, some schoolgirls in white, and a precariously balanced (but naturally occurring) solid aggregate of one or more minerals or mineraloids.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child..

Jen leads Ezra a merry dance. Opossum Bay, South Arm Peninsula. December 2012. A very special Christmas Day Sunday Stealing: The Not So Manly Meme 1. Boxers? Briefs? Boxer briefs? Thongs? Bikinis? Commando? I'm on holidays, which means commando! 2. What’s your fussiest personal care routine? I can't say that I have one. Shaving is always a chore, but having a beard is worse. 3. Do you have a favourite tool? Power or manual? A computer. It uses power. 4. Can you change your own oil? Do you? I cook in fresh oil every time. That's what you mean, isn't it? 5. What’s the “manliest / womanliest” thing you do on a regular basis? Manliest? I get a slightly contemptuous feeling any time shows an undue level of emotion. 'Womanliest'? Do you mean 'effeminate'? I'm very clean and I like to cook. 6. What’s something “manly” that you never learned how to do? Drive a car. Or even be even remotely interested in cars in any way. 7. Do you eve...

The most insignificant people are the most apt to sneer at others. They are safe from reprisals.

Ezra carefully makes his way across the geological formations that you'll find around Bellerive Bluff.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Destiny calls!

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Brave explores of the new century. The Domain, Hobart. October 2012. Wordless Wednesday.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Beach-coming weather?

I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.

Ez gets close and personal with the rather innovative water feature in Darlin Harbour, Sydney.

No man was ever eloquent by trying to be eloquent, but only by being so.

Here is Henry pre-cut. On Monday evening, I'll let you see the result of a snip...

Saints need sinners.

Wolves in the wood? Bears tucked under branches? Tigers in the trees? Actually, the most dangerous thing you'll find here are maybe a couple of rogue geese. The ducks are all talk.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

A natural bunker atop Mount Wellington is the ideal place to check out the latest inter-ballistic missile tests that we've been planning ever since Henry got that science kit last Christmas...

Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else.

Have I mentioned how proud Henry is of Tasmania's beaches...?

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...