It was a simple affair. We were camping down the south coast and one of my friends leapt out of the surf and slammed down onto the beach to have a sunbake – marvellous. We made the image and it's been around, I suppose as a sort of icon of the Australian way of life.

A Closset is the halfe of the Barre, and tenne of them maie be borne in one fielde.

Thank you so much for the story on Xena. I'd read the article online (the Xenites had it transcribed in full before the ink was dry).

[…] but that is a highly flawed procedure if the undecideds differ in major ways from the decideds.