mass liberal exodus foreshadowed

Liberal minister Jackie Kelly confirms that the John Howard Party has no John Howard exit strategy:

"If Howard was to leave I couldn't see any point in staying on," she said yesterday.

Talk about a vote of no confidence in any of Howard's potential successors. And they make fun of the ALP's leadership dilemmas!

this is not my beautiful seachange

Culture shock and exhaustion from the move to town, a month with just a few hours break from parenting, and the fact that my new-old computer was killed by a power surge a day after we got our new phone line connected...all have meant blogging has been a distant dream lately. Unfortunately I lost loads of material, some nearly ready to post, when the computer karked it, not to mention digital photos and even a new site template with an updated blogroll (apologies to those who've changed their blog address in recent months and have yet to be updated here). So, a real bummer. At least this old-old computer still seems to work (touch wood...).
Still, things are settling down a bit and Harley starts daycare this Friday so I hope to get back into some kind of normal routine again soon.

P.S. How's Teflon John! The guy's unbelievable.