Thought I would return to a much loved site, still alive and well, good morning to all, hope life has been kind, not a lot has changed.
But gee world politics has taken a dive,how do we all feel about that? is there hope or despair? at current world politics

Dear Belly,

I can't believe it.

WELCOME BACK!

It is a beautiful morning - and then some.

What a wonderful surprise to have you posting again after
all this time. You've been missed dreadfully. And as
you say - so much has changed.

Anyway, I'll go into more detail of that later.

For now - Welcome Back dear friend.

Welcome back Belly. Glad to hear you are still alive and well.

Welcome back Old Son, I assume you are still Labor to the bootstraps, and have not gone over to the dark side. The nemesis who caused your departure in the first place has long gone, but did make a brief return under a different nick, he's now departed once more.

Your man Shorten, has progressed somewhat, and now has one foot in the door for the top job. However Bills been a worry to poor Malcolm, but then so has most of his own mob. We Greens are still there, how do you feel about that?

Thanks to both foxy nice to be back runner too, now lets get down to it, while I have not changed much do others think world politics is all down hill?Trump scares me, but the Democrats did too, in picking Hillary,we, not one of us, are always right, but as politics screams for statesmen or women I see not one.

Well I'll be buggered; one of my most favourite contributors has emerged from 'who knows where! All I can say is...'Well good morning to you too BELLY ol' Son'! Some time back I even made an approach to Graham Y asking if he would implore you to come back, he said he would but apparently you'd declined to do so at that time?

I can only hope you've not been in bad health or anything else that might have distracted you from returning? Anyway BELLY you're back, and that's all that matters. Being the solid pragmatist, that you are, you always ensure commonsense and reality is injected into the conversation, notwithstanding the Topic. Anyway, a big welcome back! Would be great to hear of all your many adventures you'd undertaken in your protracted absence, provided of course, you've a mind too? Cheers for know.