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Category Archives: Food and stuff
“It`s the Rich what gets the pleasure…”
UBI – is it a GREEN issue? UBI is usually referred to as the Universal Basic Income, but I rather like its alternative title of Unconditional Basic Income. It sounds more liberal and, indeed, actually Liberal, in the freedom it … Continue reading
Spring Sunshine brings out the Smiles!
Spring Sunshine brings out the Smiles! Something of a contrast to my last posting, this one is about smiles and service as well as some thoughts on both Europe and Brazil. I had to go into town today. I had … Continue reading
Celebration Brazilian style
Celebration Brazilian style. Brazil is much in the news at the moment of course, because of the football, so it is interesting for me to see what other people are saying about Brazil now that I live here. But, for … Continue reading
Easter Eggs and memories of times past
Easter Eggs and memories of times past My second blog of the day! Must be feeling creative… Since my last post was about returning to Niteroi after the Easter Holiday, it just brought to mind a thought I had just … Continue reading
Posted in Food and stuff, Life..., Memory, Politics
Tagged Easter, Easter Eggs, Resale Prices Act, retail price maintenance
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Christmas, cousins, cleaning drains…
Christmas, cousins, cleaning drains… Another Christmas in Brazil – my fourth, amazingly – and I am still unused to a hot Christmas. Bit different this year because we had a number of cousins to stay, so our house was ‘base … Continue reading
Posted in Brazil General, Food and stuff, Life...
Tagged Christmas traditions, Christmases past, cousins, food, heat
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Reflections of Christmas…
Reflections of Christmas… Just before ten o’clock on the evening of Christmas day and we had just finished watching a film, and it is still warm so I decided I would head for the swimming pool. Actually it is not … Continue reading
Posted in Brazil General, Food and stuff, Life...
Tagged brazilian friends, Brazilian Time, Climate change, food, road accidents, weather, wildlife
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Weekend visitors. A ‘wild’ weekend…
Expecting a quiet weekend, we suddenly had an influx of visitors – friends and relatives and wildlife too! It was the end of the ‘winter’ holiday period, when schools and other public organisations close down for a couple of … Continue reading
Caravan Tales #2
Maiden outing “We’ll see”…… How prophetic. Well, here we are on our maiden outing just two weeks later – idyllic, or what? “OR WHAT!” actually. The last two weeks have been interestingly stressful – but we SHALL overcome. The first … Continue reading
Posted in Food and stuff, Humour, Life..., Tales of the Caravan
Tagged Black Sheep, caravans, food, traveller's tales, Yorkshire
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Seeing things from a different viewpoint…
At the weekend we stayed in town because we had a birthday party to go to on the Saturday evening. First of all this leads me to reflect on “Brazilian time”. … Fatima told me the party “…starts at six…” … Continue reading
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