Welcome to Ireland , the land of a thousand eh emmm gummy smiles?

What our future holds for us all very soon, as soon it wont be elderly men or women we see with a lovely toothless smile, it will be people of all ages, today in the papers I see an article were dentist are informed to pull rather than treat any one who holds a medical card teeth. full information will be released and changes are to take place from April 1st. who would have thought in 20 10 we would be slipping back to the 1950's practices of pulling teeth now when we have the tools and knowledge to save teeth.

I'm aghast to say the least mostly as I know I need a filling or two but at 80 euro a go, its the bottom of the pile on my list of priorities .

I guess I should not be surprised that it would be a cut that's favoured rather than new thinking a new scheme or may be some way of making dental care more affordable for every one.

So no thinking out side the box for the government or the HSE ....

This the day after the long awaited reshuffle, or as a very good friend called it musical chairs http://networkedblogs.com/p30118794http://irish-mammy.blogspot.com. very apt and exactly what it was. now lets look at the cost of this, new letter heads for each new position not to mention the name changes IE Department of Social Welfare/Family/Affairs and now "Protection" it will certainly run up a nice little bill .

all I can see from the reshuffle was jobs for the boys or woman for the greens, rewards for incompetence and bad performance.. any one for a bloody Mary.... well as far as some FF backbenchers are concerned a certain Mary will have the teachers up in arms and there will be war. I just hope Batt O 'Keefe can do a better job at getting Ireland working again. although I wont hold my breath.
Then Mary Hanafin a thorn in the side of many , she preformed well in ripping the hearts from parents and those suffering the recession by allowing cuts on her watch. but she did as she was told and is probably more competent than many in office. I may not like her and completely disagree with her approach and treatment of people. yet I was shocked to see her moved and now she will be the minister of Fun.. I hear rippling on line and in the papers , she was seen as a threat. I wonder was it her personality that won her, her new role.


Then Anglo Bank need I say no more, ''a pay rise'', are they having a laugh ( sorry that the dub coming out in me) great way to spend some of the taxpayers money, as that exactly what it is. Will we see our government stepping in and telling them ''no'', under no circumstances can you hand out pay rises on till you can begin to pay back what you owe the state, I'm afraid not,instead we get its a specialist job bla bla bal ,not like Obama http://money.cnn.com/2010/01/14/news/economy/bailout_tax/index.htm. when the bailed out banks paid them self's bonus a he came down heavy, now why cant we have leaders like that..... sadly not one in sight ....

All this we have to stomach, when our country is bleeding and hurting from greed and incompetence. people ordinary people are suffering every were. but were is the anger I'm not talking about the same faces marching or complaining. were is our Irish frightening spirit gone. why are we allowing this to happen.

on that note I'm ending .... on the new
''Welcome to Ireland''

The land of a thousand gummy smiles .....

To Blog or not to Blog Hmmm that is the question

Well sure, no harm in giving it a try is there!
I started to attempt a blog just before we made our jorney to Australia but was not confident enough to actually let my mad ramblings out in to the world wide web.
I think I need to rename it though now as we have been and back again as they say. Home from Australia for 1 year and 1 month and Im fairly happy besides the recession, no money so unhappy with our goverment, health service the list is endless.

Its been a time of remenissing this week, I had a hospital appointment on Monday , as I have a smal lump on the side of my nose they have decided it needs to be removed and sent off for testing and hopefully that will be the end of it. Im not to worried over it now. I will admit I was a little worried and weirded out on the day. just waiting patiently for my next appointment were they will remove the blasted little thing.
Any way on our way home P and I were talking about Australia and all that happened and why he has not heard from some of his old friends. but mainly of what went wrong with our friendship with P very old friend S and his wife. how time can be a healer and how we can see were mistakes were made by both sides but also how we know if by chance we ever see them again it would be a very intresting conversatition. (those that know us will understand what Im talking about, those who dont here is a brief history) we stayed with friends they went off traveling, while they were away we had finichal problems among other things ie having a baby two weeks to leave the country and validate a visa. stress was apart of our every waking moment I still do not know how P managed to take care of our 3 boys and get a passport for our little girl while I was in hospital oh did I mention we had to move house as well get a job and pay loads of bills(what does not kill you makes you stronger) . friends came home with thier own money worries and as they say never mix friendship and money! they thought they could ask (im being nice using ask) for x amount off us and we had a strict time frame to pay it back or else! we thought that was unfair and wrong so arguments galore. leading to more stress and a very unhappy me and P for about 3 months and all after I just had a new baby in a new country. Our friends feel very hard done by and I know they felt used as did we they lied and tripped them selfs up as forgot what they said in the first place. so we walked away wishing them the best as we could seen no even ground. some of it was stupid really when I think about it. Plus it did not help with certain fools carring stories back and making it worse but thats another story and to be honest wont be wrote about as I actually could not care less.

So we came home and its been great to be home with family so close again I felt so guilthy taking the children away especially when I see how they love thier grandparents so much. Even my wee little girl whom I was worried would'nt bond with my family loves them all especially her nanas it is so cute to watch.
She is over a year now and my boys are getting big life goes by so quickly. P has just finished a Fas course and it on a job hunt were we hope he finds one in Ireland. if not will we have to look abroad once more. Its an option I feel we may have to take but at least I am more aware of what to expect now and I will be standing on my own two feet and taking no help from any one well may be a lift some were but no way am I staying with any one again.

looks like I have come to the end as you do.( resisting the urge to add in the dreaded (LOL :) )
This week has ended and a new chapter is about to begin (the search for a JOB) Good luck my honey...
I may come back and write some more tomorrow if you can stand to read my ramblings.