What is it?

A slightly unconventional entry to the what is it challenge.

So, what is it? (Of course everyone who lives in Hobart who sees this on facebook will know. It isn't for you guys. :P) If you'd like a closer look,here's a crop of this one.

Thanks for all your hugs and cuddles and sympathy for Pippin. I didn't pass them on, kept them all for myself. :D Of course I passed them on. He slept in (note: in, not on. *sighs*) my bed last night (with an occasional break to slump onto my head), and is pretty much back on top form today.

Essay sort of written. Well, 400 words have been written, meeting with my partner (tricky stuff these paired essays) tomorrow, and hopefully when we smash our two halves together we'll just need an intro and conclusion and have a prize-winning essay. Or we may discover we've both covered the same stuff and missed half the question. But 1000 words is nothing really, although 1000 concise and correct words is something else. Meh.