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Summertime

Photo of sunrise in Penguin Tasmania

  Summertime   ‘Summertime, and the livin’ is easy Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high Oh, your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-lookin’ So hush little baby, don’t you cry …’                                                                    George Gershwin’s lyrics to Summertime   On the island chorusing cicadas are marking the arrival of summer weather  in my … [Read more…]

The Perils of Wetsuits

    The Perils of Wetsuits     James Bond often slipped into a black rubber wetsuit. Sean Connery as 007 is very partial to them. Preferably accessorized with a gun or a vicious underwater harpoon. My favourite Connery 007 scene is in Goldfinger, where he swims underwater to an island. He stealthily emerges at … [Read more…]