Full Self Esteem Ahead

Howdy the Netherlands, Brazil, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and a special shout-out to y'all in Mauritius...(yeah, what's goin' on there then? it's fantastic to have a rush of availees from across the globe, and in particular, all those in Mauritius-Ed)...cheers...(yes, cheers...never been there myself, but I hear that it's delightful, it's delicious, it's quite more-ish, it's Mauritius-Ed)...don't practice your witty alliteration around here champ...anyhoos, gidday to y'all...personally, had a grindingly glorious week or two and actually didn't think about this 'ere blog for 2 whole days, albeit not consecutive days, but in that fortnight, on 2 days I didn't even think about this 'ere blog...bliss...quiet, calm, bliss...(and the rest of the time?-Ed)...how can I describe it? perhaps like this what follows...

"Well well well", said the Hole In The Ground to the Nick Fletcher, "fancy meeting you here again"...
..."not really" said the Nick Fletcher...
..."come back for more have you?"...
..."no, I'm here for the rapier-sharp wit and the sparkling repartee"...
..."well you certainly don't need the sarcasm! and why is it exactly that you are here then?"...
..."you tell me mate and we'll both know"...
..."don't ask me, you're the one who keeps coming back here!"...
..."and every time I do, here you are!"...
..."what do you want from me? I'm a bloody Hole In The Ground! I ain't goin' nowhere!"...

And nobody, least of all the man himself, me, Nick Fletcher, knows why and/or how he/me keeps going back to the Well, let alone why the hell the Well puts-up with this rapaciously repetitious reaping of it's increasingly limited resource...whatever the heck that resource actually is, 'cos I'm damned if I know, and I am Nick Fletcher...(well somebody has to do it-Ed)...constantly go back to the Well?...(no, be Nick Fletcher-Ed)...charming, thanks for those glowing words of support and encouragement...(I'm here for ya' man-Ed)...yay...the point is, a Well that ain't got nuthin' in it when you go there, that right there's just a shreckin' hole in the ground...bit of a mangled metaphor, but I reckon I've made my point...(care to remake it please-Ed)...fine, I don't know why but I always go back to the Well but I do, nor quite how I manage it, but I do, and the Well has always got something although I don't know how, why or of what, but I drink my fill, and I go again...

And cheers for the support I do receive and the patience I am shown for the struggles I've been having in continuing with this 'ere blog...it is greatly appreciated by me that people value this 'ere blog and the effort I put into it...and now that I've successfully separated myself from this 'ere blog, so I re-commit to continuing with it, and with a renewed vigour, my usual rigour, and go figure, from the ashes springs the phoenix to spread it's wings and fly again...I am TMGI and TMGI is I and there's no gettin' away from that...over 800 posts over 3 and a half years, a string of defamation threats, a relentless stream of personal abuse, threats, harassment and attempted intimidation, right on through to 19 of the bizzarest 'charges' you could ever hope to generate for the heinous crime of 'blogging' and my very own SAPol (police) 'Operation Baritone' all about me...this is what I have endured, this is what I have achieved, and however it has come to be, this is what I do...and whatevs it is and howevs I does it, I does it good...

And this Self Esteem caper ain't quite all I'd heard it to be, either...it's all well and groovy for me to say 'yay, for the first time in my life I have experienced what I can only describe as Self Esteem, or at least some small semblance of what I understand/believe Self Esteem to be'...easy to say yet somewhat more difficult to maintain...(and yet you do-Ed)...and yet I do Ed, yet I do...Yeti do what the Yeti does...(Yeti? I thought you were a ManBear StuffPig?-Ed)...shh, I'm also identified as being a large Ape-ish Man...(Man-ish Ape more like it-Ed)...shut it!...anyhoos, point is, what I've been through in the last coupla' years has driven into me an irretrievable sense of achievement that can ne'er be unachieved...("unachieved"?-Ed)...and the good news is that whilst I do continue to just grind forward somedays, I continue to grind forward always...(nice-Ed)... 

You's Are Meant To Do It Properly The First Time:...and that way you's don't have to dig it all up again and re-do over, and at great expense to Mt Gambier Ratepayers...(as per the recent re-doing of the cement curbing at the ludicrous brand-new Penola Rd/Wireless Rd traffic lights?-Ed)...indeed...(where you turn left off Penola Rd to go East along Wireless Rd via that ridiculously narrow turning/feeder lane-Ed)...that's the one...(and they've now put rounded curbing after digging-up the brand-new straight sided cement curbing where vehicles were always gouging their tyres 'cos it's ridiculously narrow-Ed)...and the same on the other side immediately opposite, ridiculously narrow, that'll be next...(but hang-on, what's it got to do with Mt Gambier Ratepayers? isn't that intersection a State government/Transport Dept responsibility? I mean, that's why there was all that blame-shifting about who was responsible for 'fixing it', etc, decades of 'it's a State Government responsibility, not Council's', etc-Ed)...exactly...I'll explain, with photos, tomorrow, with the other politics shizzle we're doing...        

Want Tibet On It?:...because I'm sure that the Totalitarian Communist government that is China will now stop it's bellicose Nationalism/Colonialism/Militarism re it's self-declared ownership of the South China Sea...(why would they do that? they haven't been building-up artificial islands with airstrips, etc, to suddenly stop-Ed)...fair point, but the United Nations has now ruled on the issue and stated unequivocally that the area is not China's but is instead International Waters, or whatevs particular legalistic nomenclature they use...(but China has refused to participate in that process and has equally unequivocally vowed to ignore the finding, screeching about corruption in the UN and bias against them, etc-Ed)...and fair enough, if it went in China's favour there'd be those accusing China of exactly the same behaviour...

And fair enough, too, if China wants to argue that they're only doing what various Empire builders have done before them, eg, the USofA, the United Kingdom, Russia/USSR, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, the Dutch, etc, etc, do I need to go on?...(apparently-Ed)...and all of these Empires were built on the backs of their respective navvies in their respective Navies...but the thing is, you can't go doin' all this stuff with clear and deliberate intent, and then deny it all and whinge about being criticised for it, etc...can't have it both ways...but what I ain't puttin' up with, what I ain't havin', is this Council, Mt Gambier City Council, signing 'deals' with the Communist Party/Chinese government representative, deals that have not seen Minute One of the Public Consultation that Council constantly preaches about, nor the light of day since being announced...come on Council, release this 'agreement' for Public Perusal, shouldn't be a problem, right?...  

For years now I've watched this Council, Mt Gambier City Council, in it's various permutations, act with wholesale corruption, involving multiple and definable Conflict of Interest breaches, Insider Trading, gross Nepotism, dodgy contract after dodgy contract, missing monies, etc, etc, you name, they got it...and it ain't my opinion, it ain't my version of events, I've been right there in the room with these crooked clowns, over and over and over again, watching them run their crooked Circus...Collusion and Corruption, thy name be Mt Gambier City Council...it'd be quicker, much quicker to list the things they've done that aren't crooked, but in the moment I can't actually think of one...(if it wasn't so weepingly sad, it'd be weepingly hilarious-Ed)...indeed, but apart from that, Mt Gambier City Council, you are an absolute disgrace...

A Joke Gone Bad:...because it was left too long on the shelf...following the 'BREXIT' debasco (debacle meets fiasco), last week the British Prime Minister-ship was down to a handful of contenders, including 2 woman, and I was gunna' say that Theresa May but Andrea Leadsom at the moment...(but Theresa May was sworn-in as the new UK PM yesterday-Ed)...yeah, ta', I know, that's why the joke is beyond it's use-by date...(the joke?-Ed)...yeah, Theresa 'may' be the new PM, but Andrea 'leads them' at the moment...(that's the joke is it?-Ed)...yeah, well, obviously any attempt at humour re this situation is immediately confronted and entirely consumed by the looning reality that Boris Johnson was nearly the new PM...("looning reality"? don't you mean 'looming reality'?-Ed)...I know exactly what I mean, and there's no need for any correction...(well except for the actual BREXIT decision itself, that clearly needs correcting-Ed)...absolutely, and hence my exciting new campaign to rectify the situation...(do tell-Ed)...I will...but first, a language warning...

Language Warning:...for the delicately disposed amongst us, for there is no avoiding the expletive-driven hilarity of that which follows...ahem, My Plan...fellow Party faithful, welcome this evening...I believe that we have it in us, I believe that we can fix the United Kingdoms' exit from the European Union, particularly given that the recent vote to leave was motivated by, justified with, and supported on, a platform of issues that turned-out to be a raft of lies...I'll take questions...('Mr Fletcher, Mr Fletcher, Ed from TMGI here Mr Fletcher-Ed)...yes Ed...(Mr Fletcher, what are you going to call this campaign/movement to address the many problems with the BREXIT?-Ed)...FUKIT...(well I was just asking-Ed)...no no, that's what the campaign is called, FIX UK EXIT, FUKIT, or as some are calling it, FUKXIT...(riiiiight-Ed)...yes, I envisage a UK again 'United', in the streets, British streets, British streets full of British people chanting 'FUKIT', 'FUKIT Now' and 'We Want To FUKIT'...(Mr Fletcher, what about your critics who are concerned about the very real potential to undermine the genuine humour of FUKIT by just doing this joke over and over, relentlessly driving it to a certain and untimely death?-Ed)...no Ed, FUKIT we must, and FUKIT we will...(thanks for your time this evening Mr Fletcher-Ed)...FUKIT Ed...     

Aussie Political Cluedo:...and whilst Malcolm Turnbull currently holds the Chalice of Doom in the Room of Gloom, my guess is that we'll have another Prime Minister, and quite possibly quite soon...and as per our spate of PM replacings over recent years, that change is likely to be 'poll-driven' and by their own Party rather than an election, that is, a poor poll result for the current PM may see them quickly become the most recent past PM, courtesy of their own side...(indeed, enter deposed PM Tony Abbott-Ed)...precisely, and my guess is that when Mr Turnbulls' bloodied political carcass is located, the culprit is likely the most obvious suspect, namely, Mr Abbott in the Cabinet with a Poll...(taboomtish-Ed)...yes, I think that deserves a 'taboomtish'...(personally, I don't mind so much when our politicians blow smoke up my backside, it's just when they try to use the mirrors as well-Ed)...and taboomtish yourself...more hilarious Federal politicking,

Tomorrow: Oz Politics 2016 - From Huge Election To Hung Parliament

(Omg, the shizzle that goes on in your head-Ed)...well you oughtta' know, you confected literary device you, because you sir, you are exactly what goes on in my head...(oh yeah, cheers-Ed)...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...(not ashamed to say I actually made myself weep, only this time it was that deep, weepy laughing that literally brings tears...remember, whenevs life is gettin' ya' down, whenevs The Man is on ya' case, tell'm FIX the UK EXIT)