Gremlin’s Fireside Chat

Its been a tough week for the Irish Minister Noel Dempsey a fellow Meath Man. First he makes a welcome announcement of scrapping the scandalous mechanism where provisional drivers (drivers who are not experienced and have not passed the official driving test) can drive for years and years on their own without being accompanied by an experienced driver – well in most cases they should be, its just that the Guards are too busy on their tea breaks and avoiding catching gangsters to enforce the feeble laws as they currently exist. I digress. A couple of days after announcing that provisional drivers must be accompanied in a weeks time, then after a clamouring of such people – some 400,000 if its is to be believed; than the “honourable” minister changes his mind and says it will now be introduced in 2008!!!! Make up your mind man…. its another cock-up for the minster for not-thinking-ahead Noel Dempsey and a good example for why he should be removed from office.

I have never meet Mr Dempsey; but with the current cock up on top of the Aer Lingus/Shannon and Tara/M3 ones, clearly shows that apart from a probable gold medal in brown-nosing it is time for this minister-for-incompetence to go. Why should I as an Irish Tax payer and citizen put up with a 7th rate manager as a “leader” of one of our major government bodies? we shouldn’t, it’s just isn’t right. If the government was a private company Mr Dempsey would have been fired years ago. Heed the people Noel – go back to the back-benches where you belong.

Last week we had one of those 3D/4D scans done in the US – it is so much cheaper in the US than here in Ireland around 60 Euro compared to 220 Euro!!!! Which means we here in Ireland are again being taken on a ride. Anyway here are a couple of the scans – and were amazed at what you can see…

Our baby yawning in the womb!!!! When you are having the scan you don’t just get 3D you get full movie motion so we say the baby open its mouth in a yawn and move its hand to its mouth. It looked soooooo cute. Here is another one of the head…

Its amazing… and nice to see a benign use of advanced technology. Do we know the gender ….. yes, but we are only telling family at the moment.