Oh Malu, Malu
After my last rather sad post, here’s a cuteness moment. Our lovely cat Malu, who didn’t have the most auspicious …
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Red in tooth and claw.
The soim had become increasingly “friendly” over the last few weeks, not something I always appreciated, especially as they can …
Building the Jangada Valente
In 2005 Neu had a new jangada built, we named it Valente. I couldn’t do a post about it at …
Sketches of some typical plants of the region.
Some pencil and water colour pencil sketches of plants from the garden. (double clicking on an image will enlarge it.)
Struggling to teach English
Many people have assumed that I earn a living from teaching English, while it is true that there are foreigners …
A soim (common marmoset) in the house.
Some time back we were woken by the unmistakable call of a soim Callithrix jacchus, if you imagine elongating their …
This fishing malarky isn’t easy!
Yesterday Neu went fishing, up before dawn and all that. He and his mate Menes had sailed out for about …
Out before dawn!
Neu had a busy week fishing last week, disconnecting from his dialysis machine in the early hours to get out …
Four arrested for illegal lobster fishing.
As a follow up to my post of a few weeks back “Lobsters Please walk this way” below is the …
It’s about a lot more than 20 cents!
I don’t often cover things happening in wider Brazil but I would be remiss if I didn’t comment on the …
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