My inlaws lived nearby, and also would regularly call in unannounced.

One bright morning while I was working naked in the backyard my father-in-law walked around the corner of the home, and was right near me before either of us had the opportunity to avoid the circumstances.

I quit shovelling and tried to stand “strategically” whilst carrying on http://x-pot.com for several minutes.

Then he went indoors to see my wife (his daughter).

Strangest and most liberating was being in a peak of 4,300 naked people posing nude in central Melbourne for Spencer Tunick in October 2001 – at some point of the morning it occurred to me that whatever our race, we are much more similar than we’re different – a pretty serious and reassuring idea coming so recently after the terror of September 11!