They came through with that, so I had another whole off-season to recover and rehab, but here I am six games into this season and, sure, I'm getting pretty discouraged. But I haven't given up.

We just had our football bible study group in here. I've been leading it for the last three years.

What matters is that this bloke is happy; he loves life and he appears to love Melbourne. His glass is half full, or bubbling over, and that is what we like ... John So stands out in a sea of political blandness.

It concentrates much more on the sociological aspects connected to environmental changes.

Most of the region's markets are trading off a bit, which is to be expected. The strength you've see over the last few days is basically the money that has been waiting on the sidelines for an opportunity to buy on the cheap; they've decided there is not going to be an opportunity to buy on the cheap, so they might as well get involved now.

Everyone has the Christmas blues. Investors are now concerned the US economy may be about to slow down.

At the moment, it seems that a there is a huge wave of money coming in from overseas, and investors who shunned the region for quite a while -since the Asian crisis - are piling back in.

They said a year or 15 months and I brushed it off.

But there should be a lot of buying support at 15,800.