i know this is poor form
but then read jewels post about my teeth

yes they are a pain..and getting a bigger pain by the moment
[using my front teeth alone..has made them very sharp
so biting my toungue hurts all the more]

so im biting my own tongue as i write this
i was going to post it on bellies ban smoking spiel[thread]
but decided to leave it here..

[remembering we all reveal too much to each other...
and using our 'in confidence reveals'..
spoils our enjoined friendship]

but belly said it
im just repeating

''Drinking very much less,enjoying it more
type two sugar saw to that'''

i know your talking about dia beat-us two
[ya didnt get that from smoking]

it does place into context your worry
about me [a smoker..who never is sick]..
using up..your hospital bed
wasting your health dollars

as it was said on this topic
im only quoting what you wrote...here first

only wrote it because you hate smokers
enough to let lies be sold as true

31 billion is a monster lie mate
[the true cost is 800 million]..

i even quoted your alp saying that in parlenment
but you ignored it there
as you will ignore it now

yet i still have love for you
and respect

stop picking on us being taxed to death
by your alp

furher noting your ignoring the shadow
come on mate..we all feel tired

use ya passion for good
not taxing me to death

you got type 2..and still..got ya booze
and the result..your striking out..
at the helpless..imagrants/refugees

or the unrepresented..by either party
selling tax via lies

i only got..my smokes
and despise all the lies
nanny state..*in diss-cise..

lies lies lies
what about proof or truth

OUG:“yes they are a pain..and getting a bigger pain by the moment
[using my front teeth alone..has made them very sharp
so biting my toungue hurts all the more]”

I’m really sorry to hear that OUG, teeth are just the worst and most expensive thing to deal with. I’m off to get one ripped out soon. I went to get my teeth sealed at $40.00 a tooth years ago and on top of that the appointment fee etc etc then the dentists receptionist snuck me a bottle of the sealer.

Sealing is suppose to last for years so why doesn’t and hasn’t the govt had all children’s teeth sealed? Brushing does not work, I don’t care what ‘they’ say. Fluoride is a disaster and the dental nurses have disappeared from primary schools or were never in them here? Why you can't buy your own sealer is beyond me, it's pretty easy to apply.

Hey Banjo, thanks for making room. Tell you about the last really cool sunset, there was a small round gap in the clouds close to the horizon and the suns rays went up in these lines with rainbow colours through them. Best red sunsets I’ve seen were at the end of a valley in NZ – amazing colours which I later found out were due to a big Aussie bush fire. Whole thing seems ironic now with your music helping the people that put the fires out.

I forgot the pets and it’s hell expensive to move them overseas which I’ve done a couple of times now and I dunno how eels would cope in a campervan. The kids – I know I will lose that fight but being in it is what matters and along the way I win small battles. Aussie kids are way cute with their accents and little funny expressions - big interest in checking what things (bugs, animals) are dangerous which I hadn’t ever dealt with before.

Jewely,
Found this and thought you might just relate to some of it. Most mums would.

I think it clever

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXgoJ0f5EsQ&feature=related

I wish I could sing as fast as her Banjo, that was so cool. Hey I plagiarised my own song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fovj3xz4_Tw

Australia I said for my destination
The shift wasn’t anything new
The container shipped our tickets were next
With children and friends crying too
Now we live in a small town waiting for footpaths
While learning about our new state
We copy the lingo, fill up at the servo
We’ve managed to make a few mates

But when the sunset is gone and Aussie is all dark
And farmers are out shooting roos
I sit and I wonder and worry takes over
Was Aussie for keeps, or will I shoot through?

We have no, we have no
We have no visas for you
We have no
We have no
We have no visas for you
We have no
We have no
We have no visas for you

Then comes the morning, laughter of children
All worries are gone with the sound
Washing to do, with sky turning blue
But the worries they come back around
Cause later on when Aussie is all dark
And farmers are out shooting roos
I sit and I wonder and worry takes over
Was Aussie for keeps, or will I shoot through?

We have no
We have no
We have no visas for you…(repeats)

We don’t got no visas!

But when the sunset is gone and Aussie is all dark
And farmers are out shooting roos
I sit and I wonder and worry takes over
Was Aussie for keeps, or will I shoot through?

We have no, we have no
We have no visas for you… (repeats)

Can you please tell me when its morning?

Jewerly sorry things seem to be not going too well for you.
Visa? well its got me a bit unsure, see I have in my last job, seen people who want to stay but MUST LEAVE.
One memorable one was Irish young strong good worker Aussie defacto and two kids.
He was working for a bad man, Irish too he under paid his people and had them sent home if they kicked up about it.
Maybe his place, his number, in the lets let some in went to some one with no intention of working.

I’m fine Bellybabe, but the words “Recidency sponser” just didn’t fit.

You do wonder after a big life altering island shift if you did the right thing by your children, or yourself. I didn’t leave poverty or an abusive govt so I might lack the gratitude and relief felt by other kinds of immigrants here that probably keeps them quieter. Maybe that can influence some bad behaviours in the next generations they have?

OLO was and is one of the biggest helps I have found with navigating Aussie culture, attitudes and laws and everything else.

Which reminds me… where is Lexi??