just in case anyone is looking for me...

I will be in Spain this week catching some of that brilliant costa sunshine and hopefully capturing some amazing photographs as well.

In the meantime and for the record:

Having listened to tales from survivors of childhood abuse over the last few days I can only call these people heros. It is a testament to the resiliance of little children that they survived and grew up into functioning adults. Heros one and all!

What is it over at RTE radio that has presenters and news casters running scared every time someone criticises the government. During the week while interviewing anti Fianna Failer David Mc Williams Derek Mooney went out of his way to remind the listeners that any negative views about Fianna Fail were not RTES or his own. He then went on to make a rather cryptic remark about politics being everwhere. My take on that is that the management at RTE are gagging their presenters. But why? And at whos behest?

Yesterday morning I called in to the recruitment agency that Ive worked sucessfully with for some years. They were a thriving company set up 10 years ago. A poster on the front door warns that 'There will be no talk of Recession on these premises'. However there is no avoiding the downturn, especially not in the recruitment business. The owner, an indominatable lady who ruled her empire from the bastion of her upstairs executive office is now manning reception with the part time assistance of her former accounts manager. Like flood water the recession has found its way through the sandbags of optimism.