over the hump
Well, woohoo for TNT, they found and delivered my camera! Apparently, some moron had decided that the address printed on the label was incorrect, and crossed out the "North" part of our town name, and changed it to "Meadows", obviously because he knew that the address printed on the label was incorrect. So my camera has been seeing the countryside, courtesy of TNT, but it has come home, in good working order - I took these pics as soon as I got it outa the box!
I actually walked twice today! I went down to the school this morning (about 2.5km), and then walked with Grace down to collect the mail (almost half a kilometre and back). It feels good.
I scrapped a layout of these gorgeous photos of Kate and Amelia - I used the sketch at DigiscrapDivas, and the Compassion kit (for hurricane relief) by Shabby Princess and Gina Cabrera.
Our scrapbooking group met in Yarram tonight, it's fun and encouraging, even though nobody gets much scrapping done. It's just good to be able to kick back with people who understand what this is all about, and admire each other's work.
And I can't keep this in any longer. I am not one to engage in political debate. I generally acknowledge that our elected politicians will do what is on their agenda regardless of what 'the people' really want. But Mr Howard's new Industrial Relations laws are creating so much distress, anxiety, and fear for workers, and his comment that the worker has the upper hand (he can just leave and find a new job if the Work Agreement doesn't suit him), smacks of incredible arrogance and total disconnection from the reality for most workers in our society. The notion that there are plenty of jobs available for people who really want to work is just plain wrong - Ray suffered the indignities of the unemployment game for over 8 months. In some areas, there simply are no jobs available. Some skills are just not in demand. It is not practical in most instances to uproot a family and travel across the country for a new job. And if you are over 40 (or maybe even 35) you are too old to be considered for many non-skilled jobs. The reality of the job market is not in the worker's favour, Mr Howard. The commitments and responsibilities of most people in the work market disallow frivolous job changes. The reality may well become that people are forced to reduce the basic "rights" that have been achieved for workers (and yes, meal breaks would have to be considered a basic right!) simply to hold onto their job. This is not a case of those bad unions scare-mongering, there is fear in the liberal heartland, Mr Howard.
Oh dear, time for my new pills. (Thanks Tamara!)
I actually walked twice today! I went down to the school this morning (about 2.5km), and then walked with Grace down to collect the mail (almost half a kilometre and back). It feels good.
I scrapped a layout of these gorgeous photos of Kate and Amelia - I used the sketch at DigiscrapDivas, and the Compassion kit (for hurricane relief) by Shabby Princess and Gina Cabrera.
Our scrapbooking group met in Yarram tonight, it's fun and encouraging, even though nobody gets much scrapping done. It's just good to be able to kick back with people who understand what this is all about, and admire each other's work.
And I can't keep this in any longer. I am not one to engage in political debate. I generally acknowledge that our elected politicians will do what is on their agenda regardless of what 'the people' really want. But Mr Howard's new Industrial Relations laws are creating so much distress, anxiety, and fear for workers, and his comment that the worker has the upper hand (he can just leave and find a new job if the Work Agreement doesn't suit him), smacks of incredible arrogance and total disconnection from the reality for most workers in our society. The notion that there are plenty of jobs available for people who really want to work is just plain wrong - Ray suffered the indignities of the unemployment game for over 8 months. In some areas, there simply are no jobs available. Some skills are just not in demand. It is not practical in most instances to uproot a family and travel across the country for a new job. And if you are over 40 (or maybe even 35) you are too old to be considered for many non-skilled jobs. The reality of the job market is not in the worker's favour, Mr Howard. The commitments and responsibilities of most people in the work market disallow frivolous job changes. The reality may well become that people are forced to reduce the basic "rights" that have been achieved for workers (and yes, meal breaks would have to be considered a basic right!) simply to hold onto their job. This is not a case of those bad unions scare-mongering, there is fear in the liberal heartland, Mr Howard.
Oh dear, time for my new pills. (Thanks Tamara!)
posted by DebF at 10:39 pm
2 Comments:
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO @ the pill, I am stealing that and putting it on my blog. hehehehe
I do agree with what you said about little Johnny How(iknowitall)ard!
LOL!! i have seen that before but, i love it! i sooooooo wish that it really was a "real" pill... i think that i would be taking one of those today! LOL
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