Day 17, and 12 weeks to go as of Saturday and Savva worries about Kevin while the pond worries about buffering the cash roaming wild and free in the Cayman Islands ...

(And more papal blessings here).

There are still days in these climate science ravaged times when the pond can't believe the abundance, the plenitude of all the good news that walks the earth ...

Sure the BOMsters were prattling on about Sydney's record breaking weather (here), but all was for the best in the best of all possible worlds ...

Hmm, how to forestall?

Ah, never mind the coal, feel the money, but that item was quickly snatched away for another treat ...

Ah, the good old inverted commas ... could it be that Lloyd is a 'dipstick'? 'Might' saucy doubts and fears ensure a decent 'living' for a reptile?

Meanwhile, lo, across the way there was a reptile transformation ...

Where was he when it mattered? When it counted, did he stand up to Abbott or did he just bromance the night away?

Never mind, the real item this day is an extended Savva whine ...

Now the pond senses that there will be a digression, a detour down a favourite pond side road, though we can't guarantee we'll avoid all the bumps and the buffering ...

Yes, it's the Liberals indulging in a monumental bout of in-fighting, with Savva getting down and dirty ...

Now the pond always has time for a discussion of the interplanetary Andrews, and what fun it is to see the reptiles in a cage match with their masters.

Meanwhile, in the real world ...

Now the pond doesn't usually quote Aly - after all, one brand of invisible powerful friend magic is much the same as another - and there's no need to link to the actual clip. It's easy enough to google, but why suffer the buffering?

That said, it seems that at last some attention is being paid to Malware's fraudband, and the way that FTA has to pay attention to the new business models in the offing.

Right now they're caught in a kind of no person's land, a bit like that immortal line in a recent Colbert ...

“Sir, Blockbuster is built on a rock-solid business model of people getting in their cars and driving 30 minutes to find a movie that may or may not be there. And then driving back two days later to avoid a late fee. We will be here forever." (That clip is on YouTube here).

Never mind, the Aly outburst, reminding everyone what Malware had actually achieved in his time as a minister, set off a right old stream of jokes and comments ...

Perhaps the most piquant came with this opening salvo ...

Which was followed by this exchange ...

Look, use inverted commas how you will, but it's hard to escape the notion that the dog botherer is a 'fuck-witted' 'dickhead' ... with not a clue about useful infrastructure and how it facilitates business ...

But back to Savva moaning about the forces lined up against the very man who perpetrated this monstrosity ...

Just 12 weeks to go! Well if Malware now has to rely on Niki Savva as team coach, he's in even deeper doo dah than the pond realised ...

Why that should leave plenty of time for some most excellent sniping by the forces of regression ... and a few others ...

And so to the pond's word for the day ...

Of course it doesn't apply to Malware. He's guided by the deep delusion that he's the smartest person in the copper-buffered room.

And so to a final thought which deeply moved the pond, thanks to Mr Denmore ...