A story they can relate to.
As my children have gone through school here, I have been struck by how few children’s books really show the …
Category Archives: House and Home
A rumpus and a smelly visitor
Late last night, as I was getting our son ready for bed, the dogs who were all outside set up …
Building a wall, the Brazilian way.
We’ve been having a wall built around the garden. As usual when it comes to building work here, things did …
Following a paper trail to our wedding
Neu and I got married in Brazil 2004, at that time I was still on a tourist visa and only …
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 …
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.)
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 …
Out before dawn!
Neu had a busy week fishing last week, disconnecting from his dialysis machine in the early hours to get out …
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