Who IS minding the shop in 2025?

 It is a good question since Chang & Eng are in charge again.  

I would prefer Zig and Zag, or Martin & Lewis, since I think photos show Lewis and Harris were seperated at birth.

Why?

Well SH never answers a question without telling us his officials told him....just like a Bart Simpson excuse " A big boy made me do it...". Or maybe to add Collegiate blame Several Big Officials Made Me Say It.

And The Other Tool is just perching on a twig, preening his feathers with a his eye on The Presidency.

So to proect their DerryAirs they have empty minded Gatekeepers as a first line of contact to services the public want to access.

 I suppose if I ask under FOI for the records (and it seems you must specify that) as to the education and payscale of the gatekeepers. I would not get a real answer.

Like the Gatekeeper for The Education Ombudsman who told me that I could only complain about the Ombudsman ..TO THE PRESIDENT OF IRELAND since he appointed him.

 When I informed him that all ministers, the Taoiseach and the rest were also appointed by President Higgins..he went off the rails and refused to accept a complaint about a University because I didn't attend that UNI.

A year later his boss turned down my complaint entirely.

Think I just discovered and allege, that when the Dáil in Ireland was disolved other Government Functions were also disolved.

 Was speaking with the Education Ombudsman Ireland for a year on a UNI Lecturer bullying complaint. 

Since the Dáil was disolved a project that was coming to a head has now stalled, only the sound of silence - emails regarding the project have ended.

Bet the person (minister for higher education) who set up the position two years ago made another BOO Boo.

Three strikes and you are out has to apply!

My new Novella is in Progress.

 It is called No One Calls Me Patrick Any More.

Remember when it was Saint Patricks Day? Not Paddy's Day or Saint Paddy's day.

The Novella is about a cohort of Civil Servants and Advisors who work with Wile E. Fox, the Taoiseach. Behind his back they call him Bart since when asked about a decision he says "My Advisors Told Me To Do That". Just like Bart Simpson who says "A Big Boy Made Me Do That".

His hero is Wile E. Coyote who dreams up schemes to best the Road Runner, but fails and usually gets splattered -way down over he cliff. But in the next schene he is back whole scheming again.

As it's a novella it will be ready soon. 

I am writing a new novella...I know I said I was finished...

 

The Adventures of Double-barrelled

Scatter Gun O'Sea

A Novella for Students of

B U D

A Novella is a narrative a short prose fiction story, related to true or apparently so facts.

© Lazarian Wordsmith 2024

Cast of Characters

Double-barrelled Scatter-Gun O'Sea: A lecturer with almost 40 years Tenure of daydreaming about a bright future with her Frog Prince. But now-a-days, she would settle for a Toad! 

I. A. M. Empty: A promising student who has been bullied to such a degree that his head, instead of being full of ideas and promise, is now empty. He is also deranged, in that he thinks life is fair and the good prevail.

Followers:

Peres

Prof

Council

E.X. Amos

Bud is the fictitious Bullying University Dublin

Scatter-Gun was ruminating, while sitting on her Throne. Deeply engrossed in what she thought were the gems she taught.

She was totally oblivious to the sounds and the plopping delivery from her nethers of the Copperhead snakes nested there.

And since she had been smell-blind after all those years of sniffling and not using a handkerchief, able to sit there in the odours that were flooding into the street outside, and above her basement garret, causing passers-by to reek and vomit pavement pizzas.

"I will make them pay. I will make them paaay." She spluttered as a terrific groan travelled up while a terrific load passed down.

"How dare they produce Curriculum Vitae's that show what they did not learn from me. Do they think they - that they - attend University to become free thinkers."

Totally absorbed in her rage, she wiped between her bum-cheeks without any paper, and howled.

" I thought it was only supposed to sting after a Delly Curry, or maybe that was a Delhi Curry."

I must invest in a Bidet, she thought. This perching like a Green Parrot on the Wash Basin is dangerous unless you use both hands to wash.

"Ah! Crap! Crap! Someone lift me up."

But her cries echoed and echoed and echoed around the three flights of stairs, leading to her garret.

"I hafta to get a below stairs loo." She thought.

But her inner woman was chanting...I think. I think, I smell a stink. I think it's offa you!

Please note her thoughts betrayed what she thought was proper language and she reverted back to her native language. Gutter Speak.

End Episode 1

AMAZON.EU.SarL need a geography lesson.

  Congratulations, your paperback, "Here Lies Deirdre Rachel Eames ," is published on Amazon. If you republished your book with updates, your changes are now live.

BUT IT SEEMS - NOT FOR SALE IN THE REPUBLIC OF IRELAND - since AMAZON DON'T KNOW THE RULES FOR TRADE UK AND THE ROI and are blaming BREXIT  because they won't show my Print On Demand book on AMAZON.CO.UK.

Of course the site .CO.UK is a misnomer since the real site/agent is Amazon.EU. Sarl who are in Germany and are subject to the EU rules of trading.

So I hear you shout do they charge VAT on paperback sales made on Amazon.Co.UK - who are in Europe ? Apparently not.

But that's for  the EU Germany VAT Person to  tackle them on.

Complained to our Irish Trade minister - but he said all of that is "Amazon's business" - where and who they trade with. 

Complained to his boss but got No Reply.

I allege they must be very busy trying to draft new laws to stop the public protesting outside  Leinster House, when they are attending for a days work - ONE DAYS WORK A WEEK.

Do you ever feel that you are invisable?

 

I have just had it!!

Why nowadays when you try to talk (email) entities, like Amazon UK or Applegreen Ireland, or The Oireachtas - you are ignored.

Well not really ignored just treated like a nuisance - who will go away if we ignore them.

I asked a Govt. Minister why Irish people who want to buy my Paperbacks Books MUST get them from Amazon UK, who by the way are operating out of Luxembourg EU, and pay in Sterling. He told me that was Amazon's Business, as to who and where the choose to deal with customers in Ireland.

In the rest of the EU Amazon sell from local marketplaces. Amazon DM, SP, FR, ND, etc..

His Minions also send me an acknowledgement of my email addressed to MR or MS Surname, Not Mr. or Ms. Surname. No Mrs. Scaredy Cats - afraid to address a married woman as Mrs. in case they offend someone or other!

Well anyway - I am of an age where customers were valued and prized. It seems not any more - JUST GIMMIE YER MONEY AND THEN PFO. AND DON'T TRY TO COMPLAIN.

After COVID I am back functioning AGAIN TG.

 I thought I had seen it all!

Apparently not!

This Covid Yoke in Ireland killed a lot of nice, gentle, friends and a lot of others who would perhaps have been new friends.

I am glad it had eased off and hope it is gone, permanently.

I am back blogging to bring some wrongs to light.

First me new paperback Here Lies Deirdre Rachel Eames (hereliesdreams)has been prepared on KDP and published as a Novella.

They tell me it's a cracking galloping page turner. 

Now it is for sale on Amazon.Com, and all over Europe in local markets like Germany, Spain, France, Holland, Portugal...the lot. It's up for sale in Canada, Japan, everywhere in fact. All on the local website markets and in local currencies.

 But not in Ireland. Us poor creatures, in The Replublic of Ireland, who have been divorced  from the UK -it was called the Treaty and caused a Civil War in the year 1922. Have to buy my books from Amazon.Co.UK and pay in Sterling (£).

This is madness since Amazon have offices and staff and warehouses in THE REPUBLIC and get grants from The EU, and a tolerance on Corporation Tax from the Irish Revenue, to keep them going.

DISGRACEFUL!

Fogra: that's a PS As Gaeilge.

A lesson for Amazon:

Ireland consists of 32 counties, six in NI and 26 in ROI.

They can't handel the premises that IF THE CUSTOMER HAS AN ADDRESS IN 1 ANTRIM, 2 DOWN  3 ARMAGH 4 DERRY, 5 TYRONE OR 6 FERMANAGH THEY ARE IN NI-UK - ELSE-  IF  ANOTHER IRISH ADDRESS  IS PICKED UP FOR SHIPMENT  THAT CUSTOMER IS IN THE REPUBLIC.

See I even wrote the FLOW CHART for you.